Before Rock Band, there were rock bands
What if the Galar Fossils weren't warped?
We used to be a society that made video games with rock bands and rap collectives in all sorts of genres. We used to have Kiss first-person shooters, Def Jam fighting games, and 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand.
Today, the subgenre of musician-led games barely exists; only the biggest of the biggest pop groups like BTS play in their own games anymore, and they're likely for mobile platforms. Musicians in console and PC games are largely relegated to appearing as Fortnite and Call of Duty: Warzone skins.
The era of tape-based games is almost over. Sega is out of the Make My Video business, we'll likely never get another Spice Girls theme, and, for better or worse, a reboot of Michael Jackson's Moonwalker seems nearly impossible. But over a three-decade stretch, we got some fascinating, confusing, and downright awful video games based on tapes.
