#Plastic Instruments

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Video thumbnail — Guitar Hero (PS2) - Trailer [2005]
Video Games 2005–2010

Guitar Hero

The plastic guitar controller that turned living rooms into rock venues and made you feel like you could shred—Guitar Hero arrived in November 2005 with just five fret buttons and a strum bar, playing note-scrolling highways to licensed rock songs. It became a living-room phenomenon. Guitar Hero III (2007) and its brutal finale 'Through the Fire and Flames' defined the genre's peak before the plastic-instrument bubble burst from over-saturation around 2010.

Video thumbnail — Rock Band : Official First Trailer
Video Games 2007–2010

Rock Band

You got a plastic guitar, a plastic bass, a plastic drum kit, and a plastic microphone. Four friends could play one song together at once. This seemed revolutionary for about three years.