Due to technological limitations, most video games back then didn't even have background music. I can't really think of other video games worth mentioning from the '70s off-hand. One of the included games was video Simon Says. Given the comparisons to the children's game Simon Says that the genre often gets, you could say its evolution goes as far back as gaming's first console, the Magnavox Odyssey, launched in 1972. Where to start is certainly up for debate. So this thread is devoted to pre-Parappa games that contributed to the genre. Its popularity (and obviously other games after it like the various Bemani games) have made it its own genre instead of being thrown under terms like 'reflex', 'puzzle', or 'miscellaneous'. Parappa the Rapper (1996) is generally seen as the birth point for modern rhythm/music games. It's certainly not a genre of expertise for me but since I try to be a well-rounded gamer, I have been researching and attempting to trace its origins more thoroughly than existing articles on the internet. Guitar Hero III really clicked with me this year and I have been loving older ones in my collection like Space Channel 5 Part 2 more than before. I have been playing a bunch of rhythm games lately.
