Spy nabs pic of rumored Guitar Hero arcade cabinet

*not pictured: grime

That's weird, we've got a Guitar Hero arcade in Brazil since last year o.O

The Guitar Hero arcade machines that are already in existence are not official cabinets. The Brazilian ones may be licensed in some way, but most of the existing cabinets are just the home versions of the games rigged up to a coin mech. This is a brand new, from the ground up, officially sanctioned arcade cabinet.

Finally, I can go forth into public and prove I am the superior nerd in the tri-county area! Kneel before me Northern Middle Tennessee arcade goers, sometime in the future!!

I am gonna be at IAAPA tomorrow. I'll take some pictures and play it.

I've been wondering why we don't have those for ages. Arcades here in the UK still get a lot of visitors because the youth of today is basically middle-class children pretending that they're dispossessed and have nothing to do.

I gotta admit, this would reel me in. Not necessarily because Guitar Hero is that great anymore, but arcades need as much life as they can get and I'd be willing to support that.

...not that I've seen a very good arcade in a while... :(

Single player?

I'm pretty sure that every Best Buy I've ever walked into with a GH or RB display has had instruments that barely even work well enough to navigate the menus after all the abuse they've taken, and certainly don't work well enough anymore to actually play the game with.

I foresee a similar issue here...

We can confirm that Raw Thrills is building the guitars from scratch but they will still resemble the guitars packaged with Guitar Hero: World Tour. The guitars appear to be wireless, but we're unsure at the moment - at first we thought maybe there was a wireless sync for people to bring controllers in, but our source already shot that down. Raw Thrills really wanted to try a wireless sync with the cabinet, but it will not ship that way.

We've pretty much squeezed all of the "unofficial" information we can from our source. Until tomorrow, what you can know about the cabinet is "the cabinet is going to feature 8-10 speakers, more than 500 LED lights and a 32" monitor. The cabinet is also reportedly slated to take advantage of Internet connections to provide online cash tournaments sometime starting in 2009."

I'm pretty sure I played this like 6 or so years ago, when it was called Guitar Freaks :P

*Franchise successfully Milked.*

Is this Activision's attempt to try and steal away some of the revenue being generated by Guitar Hero/Rock Band nights at local bars?

That's the only reason I could think of for why they'd do this. Otherwise it's just pointless.

I've got the games at home, and add a new song or two a week through DLC. I'm not going to plug quarters into this game...especially with the aftertaste of the GHIII overcharting. Imagine spending 50 cents or so to play 6 seconds of Dragonforce.

The smart move would be to make the cabinents no fail, and focus on high scores.

We still have arcades in the US?!

**pictured: American Idol? [ref: background]

"published by Konami"

Haha.

Worst idea ever. How many guitars at Best Buy work correctly after a few months on the display floor?

Well, there goes Technika's chance at being purchased as a rhythm game. :

To those concerned about how the guitars will withstand arcade beatings, you have to understand - console accessories are, for the most part, made as cheaply as possible to keep them at a lower cost for the consumer. When you're already spending thousands on an arcade machine, this really isn't an issue. The console guitars we've been seeing do not even remotely come close to the quality resistance Guitar Freaks' guitars have. Just as Eddie pointed out, I can only think of two times I've ever seen GF guitars out of commission. I owned an arcade that had a Guitar Freaks cabinet for almost two years and never once was there an issue with the guitars. Arcade machines are made to be roughed up because they will be. The springs, switches and buttons on upsacle arcade machines are about as high quality as you can get while the hollow plastic shells that are the Best Buy console guitars can break at the drop of a hat. Guitar Freak arcade controllers are heavy, thick beasts with high-end parts (I love how the guitars have a speaker that pump out the guitar parts you play). You just can't compare them.

And, yes, that is the rumored American Idol "Star Studio" in the background. It's kind of interesting, technology-wise, really. You climb in and perform a song and you actually have the option to have your performance burnt to a DVD on the fly or you can have it e-mailed to you as a file. Regardless on your thoughts of American Idol, karaoke, the music that's in it, etc., it definitely has some serious technology behind it that we'll find out about tomorrow.

I played a "Guitar hero Arcade Cabinet" at the shore this but it was just an Xbox 360 inside of a black wooden box- literally. You paid 5 dollars or something ridiculous for 5 minutes on the game, not one song or 3 songs like DDR, you just pay for 5 minutes! Like you have to sign into a 360 profile and then choose your song and wait for it to load. It was pretty laughably bad.

A arcade version of Guitar Hero will be really cool. The funnest part of Guitar Hero is playing with friends and competing. If you can do that in a public setting (aka Street Fighter) Guitar Hero will go to the next level. Although I don't know how many quarters I'll spend in an arcade when I can just go home and play for free.

-Ash
http://www.guitarhero-rockband.com