# Guitar Hero meets Tetris meets f-zero **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 20, 2008, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guitar-hero-meets-tetris-meets-f-zero/434278 "2008-01-20T18:26:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2008, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guitar-hero-meets-tetris-meets-f-zero/434278/1 "2008-01-20T18:26:48Z")
Its called [AudioSurf](http://www.audio-surf.com/), and its having a free beta weekend today and tomorrow. Unlike guitar hero or other rhythm games you can use all your own songs to play, [here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3IX_WNP9yg) someone is playing it to the futurama theme song. I’ve been hooked on this for the past several hours, it works really well with any song but im enjoying it with classical music the best right now. You can download it [here](http://media.audio-surf.com/SetupAudiosurf_BetaWeekend2_1.19.08.exe). ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2008, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guitar-hero-meets-tetris-meets-f-zero/434278/2 "2008-01-20T20:35:22Z")
This is very, very cool. The roller-coaster track is a trip and makes it incredibly entertaining. ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2008, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guitar-hero-meets-tetris-meets-f-zero/434278/3 "2008-01-20T22:19:16Z")
I’m having a bit of a time figuring out which songs would be most amusing. I picked Metallica right off the bat hoping it would kick ass and found it was rather ho-hum. So far the best have been: Back in Black (AC/DC), Stray Cat Strut (Stray Cats), Sabotage (Beastie Boys), and Angst in my Pants (The Sparks). I thought at first anything with a strong drumbeat would be best but Prodigy was rather boring. I think it’s rather picking up on the peaks and valleys in the waveform, so anything that’s been compressed is going to not have a very intense track. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2008, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guitar-hero-meets-tetris-meets-f-zero/434278/4 "2008-01-20T22:34:22Z")
[QUOTE=Queen Bruin] I’m having a bit of a time figuring out which songs would be most amusing. I picked Metallica right off the bat hoping it would kick ass and found it was rather ho-hum. So far the best have been: Back in Black (AC/DC), Stray Cat Strut (Stray Cats), Sabotage (Beastie Boys), and Angst in my Pants (The Sparks). I thought at first anything with a strong drumbeat would be best but Prodigy was rather boring. I think it’s rather picking up on the peaks and valleys in the waveform, so anything that’s been compressed is going to not have a very intense track. [/QUOTE] Which difficulty are you playing on? anything on the first level is going to be really slow. ---
**Author:** ![Juggler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/juggler/32/3194_2.png) [@Juggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Juggler)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2008, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guitar-hero-meets-tetris-meets-f-zero/434278/5 "2008-01-20T22:45:14Z")
Beta expired ☹ Have to catch it next time, it seems fun. ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2008, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guitar-hero-meets-tetris-meets-f-zero/434278/6 "2008-01-20T23:10:45Z")
[QUOTE=DigitalC] Which difficulty are you playing on? anything on the first level is going to be really slow. [/QUOTE] I’m only playing on the easiest setting, mostly because I’m having a hard time not zoning out on the background. 😃