Original Guitar Hero publisher RedOctane was bought by Activision in 2006, while the game's developer, Harmonix, was purchased by Viacom later that same year. But the guitar-game fad flamed out pretty quickly. Guitar Hero brought us all the glamour of music superstardom without worries like artistic integrity, drug use, or Yoko Ono. There was nothing quite like shredding through classic hits like "I Love Rock N' Roll" or "I Wanna Be Sedated" before turning around and making dinner. The Guitar Hero craze of the late 2000s feels like ancient history now, but at the time, thousands of gamers across the country would come home from school (or work), strap on a fake plastic guitar, and transform into living-room rock Gods.
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