14 Year Old Guitar Hero, Sets Record

GAPrincess · Feb 5, 2009

Leaving a Broken Record (and Guitars) in His Wake

By SETH SCHIESEL

In a display of manual dexterity and preternatural concentration, a 14-year-old from Grapevine, Tex., Danny Johnson, set a world record Wednesday in Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock, often considered the benchmark in the fast-growing category of music-based video games.

At a Best Buy store in Midtown Manhattan, Danny recorded a score of 973,954 with a roughly seven-minute rendition of DragonForce's heavy-metal shredder "Through the Fire and Flames," the game's most difficult song. Players rack up points by hitting buttons on a plastic guitar controller in time to the music. The previous record, 899,703, was set by Chris Chike, 17, in Minnesota last August.

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truckermario · Feb 5, 2009

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deO-jEXv-3s

This song is so ##### righteous!

truckermario · Feb 5, 2009

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYL93VqlqYU

These guys are ugly and living in the wrong decade, but man can they sling those strings.

Congrats to that kid who beat the previous record holder.

truckermario · Feb 5, 2009

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wkZYBJGaMk

Picture in picture video showing the kid's mad skills.

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