Rock Band

Full-band peripherals plus a weekly song store turned rhythm games into a music retail platform.

Released 2007 Developer Harmonix Publisher MTV Games Platform Xbox 360 Genre Rhythm Era Broadband & the console shooter Website harmonixmusic.com ↗

Mechanics it built on

Ideas Rock Band inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.

Beat-Matched Input ~~1996~~Scrolling Note Highway ~~1998~~Drop-In Co-op Campaign ~~2001~~Instrument Peripheral ~~2005~~Downloadable Content ~~2006~~

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