Yup, that's my dad showing all the haters how Guitar Hero is done. The last video game he played was probably old-school arcade Star Wars circa 1985 at the Golden Dome in Hyattsville, Md., but he still rocked a solid three stars and hit 81 percent of the notes. And today I saw Guitar Hero at Target for only $59.99. Well? What are you waiting for?
Josh Korr played his first video game at circa age 4 on the Commodore Vic 20. He soon moved on to the more sophisticated Commodore 64, home of classics like Impossible Mission (still impossible to finish on the Commodore plug-and-play joystick he bought from QVC last year) and Jumpman. That had to do for awhile -- his mom wasn't thrilled about the whole video game thing -- until uncle Charley came to the rescue with a Hanukkah Nintendo. His mom was right though: $50 was too much to spend on Super Mario Bros. 3.
Josh is still a gamer, but a wary one. A copy editor in real life, he has been writing movie and music reviews and pop culture essay-type-things since college (for the Valley News in West Lebanon, N.H., and for the Times/tbt*) and is trying to bring the same critical approach to video games.
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