With sales of music games dropping at alarming rates, the savvy game designers at Harmonix (or more likely, the desperate marketers) have decided that in order to revive their flagging franchise, they needed something truly mind-blowing. “I know! How about a keytar?!”
I’m not really sure it’s the best way to go. I mean, the keytar didn’t really work out so well for… anybody. Or itself. It was an oddity in its own time, and is a subject of near-universal mockery. Be aware that the instrument in the following is not a keytar:
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JT5AQIlmM0I&hl=en_US&fs=1&hd=1]
This is a keytar:
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PB2Wmto9fQY&hl=en_US&fs=1&hd=1]
See where I’m coming from here?
[image from Synthtopia]
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