A guitar simulation music video game for the PlayStation 2. Guitar Hero is bashed by real guitarists for...some reason.

You guys are idiots. Guitar Hero and the "real" guitar BOTH take incredible amounts of skill. I would know; I play both. So until you can melt faces on plastic and authentic, quit trying to rag on everyone.

1. Someone who has little or no life and spends most of, if not all, their time playing Guitar Hero 1 or 2.

2. Or, someone who has completed a particularly difficult song on any difficulty and won't stop bragging about it.

Guitar hero is rhythm game that has the player use a plastic guitar with 5 color fret buttons (or 6 with guitar hero live) and the player has to hit the right button and strum with said Button the get a score. The game was also bought by activision with RedOctane and milked the game.

An awesome multi-platform game that has become a pop-culture phenomenon due to it's ability to make the player feel like they are a talented guitarist without having to waste any time actually leaning how to play a guitar.

Like all things that experience fast widespread success, and cause hot topics of conversation, it has it's detractors. Mainly guitar-players who are angry at the game's ability to make them look bad, and because they didn't know about it first. Like all critics of this type, they take an elitst stance and usually combat any conversation regarding the game with statements like 'Why don't you just play a real guitar'. Or 'It's just a poor man's version of a real guitar', ignorant to the well-noted fact that no girl has been impressed by a guy who can play the guitar skillfully since 1995.

It is this shift in the female gender's attraction from the traditional guitarists to non-instrumental vocalists that has garnered much resentment from the guitarist community. In addition to the fact that being a member of a small band is now less attractive than being a Level 639 at Warcraft.

It is also worth noting that while there are other games that simulate the experience of a sport or activity, such as the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater franchise, Dance Dance Revolution, 'music-making' games, and Sim-whatever; which do not recieve the same hostility from their peer groups. "Why don't you just go and skate/dance/compose/build your OWN theme-park. This is understood to be because of the "Guitars-are-lame paradox", where being skilled at a video game replicating classic guitar songs looks more fun than actually playing them would be.

One of the greatest games ever made by man. Includes a setlits full of such hits as Iron Man, Killer Queen, Spanish Castle Magic, and much, much more. There is an ongoing war between 'gamers' and 'guitarists' about it, but any smart person should realize that this is just a (incredibly fun) game that should not be compared to a real guitar on levels of awesomeness. *There is also a sequel, which is just as much, if not more, awesome.