10. That First Crazy Flurry Of Notes In Guitar Hero
So before we start busting out the straight-jackets, lets start with something slightly more relatable to a wider audience. Remember Guitar Hero? At the best of times it was the embodiment of every tennis-racket wielding wannabe-rockstar, instantly giving you the songs youve always wanted to play on a plethora of increasingly stadium-sized stages full of adoring fans. At its worst though, it was an uncompromising blur of primary colours all rushing towards you during the bit of the song you were looking forward to the entire time. Having barely plinked and plonked your way through what would otherwise (in your mind) have been an opposite-sex-attracting explosion of pure euphoria with an ear-to-ear grin, instead you fail the song on the following chords and are accompanied by a jeering crowd and buzzing amp feedback. The sudden reminder of your bedroom-bound limitations with My First Guitar in-hand are nothing short of crushing, and the resolute smattering of retries relegates whatever your favourite song was into purely torturous territory.