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Examining some of the biggest video games of the late 2000s, looking back on it all vanished so suddenly, and why they were remarkable for bridging games and music as art forms.

Edited by @clickingaming
Thumbnail by @hotcyder

Chapters
0:00 Intro
5:06 "What Can This Strange Device Be?"
19:43 "Our World Could Use This Beauty"
33:55 "A Little Help From My Friends"
42:32 “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”
53:06 "Just Like Heaven"
1:05:55 Conclusion

Sources
Harmonix startup story https://money.cnn.com/2009/09/03/smal...
RedOctane Interview on Guitar Hero https://web.archive.org/web/200805281...
Excerpt from “Inside Game Design” https://web.archive.org/web/202005070...
Greg Fischbach Interview https://web.archive.org/web/201608200...
Ed Fries Interview https://web.archive.org/web/201209230...
NPD Sales, December 2006 https://web.archive.org/web/200709272...
Activision pays $100 million for RedOctane https://www.gamesindustry.biz/sec-fil...
How Neversoft Took Over Guitar Hero https://www.shacknews.com/article/491...
“Games that Rock” https://web.archive.org/web/200904302...
Aerosmith on Guitar Hero https://web.archive.org/web/200802280...
Guitar Hero 3 Sales https://www.shacknews.com/article/567...
Ed Fries on Frequency https://web.archive.org/web/201209230...
Guitar Hero Suit Settled https://www.gamespot.com/articles/gui...
Rock Band 2, GH World Tour Sales https://web.archive.org/web/201210111...
BusinessWeek on The Beatles in Rock Band https://web.archive.org/web/200908142...
How Beatles Rock Band came together https://www.cnet.com/news/how-beatles...
While My Guitar Gently Beeps https://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/16/ma...
Dhani Harrison on The Beatles: Rock Band https://www.billboard.com/articles/ne...
Offworld on The Beatles Rock Band Intro https://web.archive.org/web/200906111...
The Beatles: Rock Band sales https://web.archive.org/web/200912131...
Reddit thread of favourite Guitar Hero games   / by_your_opinion_rank_the_six_main_guitar_hero  
Inside Game Design by Laurence King, ISBN 978-1-85669-532-9.

Music used
Home - Resting State (used throughout)
Daisuke Ishiwatari, Naoki Hashimoto - Heavy Day (Karaoke)
Daisuke Ishiwatari, Naoki Hashimoto - Big Blast Sonic (Karaoke)
Norichika Sato - Ocean
Daisuke Ishiwatari - Fizz
Daisuke Ishiwatari, Naoki Hashimoto - Find Your One Way
Daisuke Ishiwatari, Naoki Hashimoto - What Do You Fight For
Dragonforce - Through the Fire and Flames (MIDI by Estouls Aruta)    • 【MIDI】 DragonForce - Through The Fire...  
C-Side - Clickbait
Daisuke Ishiwatari, Naoki Hashimoto - Play the Hero
Norichika Sato - Django Django
Nirvana - Come As You Are (Super Mario 64 Cover by Something is Real)    • Nirvana's Nevermind but with the SM64...  
Nirvana - In Bloom (Super Mario 64 Cover by Something is Real)    • Nirvana's Nevermind but with the SM64...  
The Beatles - While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Super Mario 64 Cover by Durag Gohan)    • The Beatles - White Album But With Su...  
Hidenori Shoji - Cover of Mute City’s Theme
The Beatles - Dig a Pony (Super Mario 64 Cover by bruhmoment28)    • The Beatles - Let It Be (Mario 64 Sou...  
Daisuke Ishiwatari - Give Me A Break
Daisuke Ishiwatari - The Lily of Steel
Koji Kondo - Steam Gardens