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As if anybody needs ANOTHER excuse not to do their scales...know of any fun computer or video games with a music theme?

I don't have any trouble finding things like Airport Tycoon for my elder son, who insists that airliners are MUCH COOLER than fighter jets ohmy.gif , but where are all the "Busker Boy Takes the World", "Snake Pit Orchestra", "Starlet Tycoon" etc. games for my younger son to waste his time on??? (Gotta play fair and corrupt both my boys, of course..).
DGA
I heard the Sims 1.0 had an expansion called Superstar or something like that. I don't know what it's about, but probably about becoming a rock star.
july
what exactly do you mean by 'music theme'? one computer game with a really cool soundtrack (that the right word?) is 'age of empires 2'! the main theme is ever so catchy!
oh dear, it's coming after me now... tongue.gif
Rhapsodin
If we're talking about sountracks, I really got caught by, now, an old one - and I persuaded my student friend to turn down the effects and play the game so I could record the track.
That was Turok 2 on the old N64. So moody. Especially Port of Ardia. I could cheerfully have lived there! (Not that I'm personally moody, just the morning mists, the strange dilapidation, the ancient stone-work, the light...
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I think the post was meant to be about the game having a musical plot=theme, not the soundtrack tho. Not sure.
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