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Harmonix and RedOctane released Guitar Hero on November 8, 2005, packaged with a guitar-shaped controller and a set list of licensed rock songs. Living rooms filled with plastic instruments for the next several years.
Music games briefly made playing a video game a group activity that non-players joined without embarrassment, and they gave the recording industry a genuinely new channel at a moment when it badly needed one. The rise and fall together form one of the clearest business lessons of the decade.
