8 Dumb Video Games That Made You Feel Like A GENIUS

8. Guitar Hero

The premise of the Guitar Hero franchise - and by extension its cousin Rock Band - is fundamentally ridiculous, that rather than buy a second-hand guitar and start learning an instrument for real, you're going to buy a pricey plastic peripheral and pretend-rock out by mashing some colour-coded buttons.

It's a conceit so silly and yet so pervasive in pop-culture that it was parodied by South Park way back in 2007, making fun of the very idea that people would rather dance around with a toy guitar than put in the leg-work to learn proper.

But the basic wish fulfillment allure of Guitar Hero speaks for itself - if you can survive Dragonforce's infamously mettle-testing "Through the Fire and Flames" on Expert difficulty, you'll feel like a golden rock god.

And rightly so, honestly - as resoundingly daft as Guitar Hero might be, the hand-eye co-ordination and all-around dexterity required to complete the series' trickier songs is undeniable. 

Once you get into a hypnotic flow state mid-song, it feels like you've unlocked something primal inside, and hell, it might even give you the confidence to go pick up an actual guitar.