Jamstykk
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Jamstykk is a guitar controller made for use with music video games published by RedOctane, Harmonix, and Activision. The peripheral is notable for its portable package which telescopes to a full length 33 inch long guitar controller, with a solo mode for strumless play by pulling in on the semi locking, authentic sized fret button section of the neck, and sliding it in to sister with the strum bar section to simulate playing a "solo". The Jamstykk is cross compatible with Playstation 2 and Playstation 3 video game consoles because of a unique wireless dongle which has interfaces for both PS2 and 3. Guitar Hero popularity in 2006 and 2007 provoked the original idea of a less bulky, personal, portable guitar controller with more features and an aesthetic look and feel for modern gamers.
[edit] See also
- Alex Necochea and Bryn Bennett: the 'Guitar Heroes' of Bang Camaro on Wikinews
- Quest for Fame, a 1995 computer game which uses either a so-called "v-pick" or a "virtual guitar" peripheral to play Aerosmith songs.
- GuitarFreaks, a 1998 arcade game series created by Konami that also uses a guitar peripheral.
- Frets on Fire, a free software/open source clone of Guitar Hero for Microsoft Windows, Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OS X.
- Rock Band, a 2007 video game developed by Harmonix Music Systems for the Wii, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360.
- Guitar Rising, a 2008 computer game developed by GameTank for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X which notably uses a real guitar rather than a guitar controller to play music.
- Audiosurf
