Harmonix Music Systems

Harmonix Music Systems is a subsidiary of MTV games. It is most famous for inventing the first Guitar Hero game. Since the game released, they have made Guitar Hero II, Rock Band, Rock Band 2, and The Beatles: Rock Band among many others. They started off making games for the Playstation 2 that used music as the base for the game. Players would hit certain buttons and make the track play while trying to get as many notes as possible. These games were called Frequency and Amplitude. Then the company made Karaoke Revolution volumes 1 2 and 3. Then in 2005, Harmonix created a video game which opened a whole new genre of games. This video game was Guitar Hero. In Guitar Hero, the game is played with a guitar shaped controller on which the player must strum and press fret buttons in order to play the selected song. This idea revolutionized the video game world. After Guitar Hero II, Harmonix won multiple awards and moved onto a new project. This new idea was a Guitar Hero, but not just with guitar. This idea resulted in Rock Band and Rock Band 2, both very popular games including the guitar as well as drums and vocals. The next project was The Beatles: Rock band, which consisted of all Beatles songs. Look out for the upcoming Rock Band 3.