The Sign of Addiction to Guitar Hero

Many people have spent hours playing guitar hero. People host guitar hero parties. They opt to stay in drink and play the game with their friends instead of going out to the bars. Why the addiction? How does one know when they are addicted?

Every unsuspecting person picks up that controller and starts playing that song. Green, blue, red, yellow. The colors scroll along and your hands learn the natural process of playing along. You feel pride when you get Star Power and the crowd cheers. You're secretly disappointed in yourself when you fail and the crowd boos you. It just adds insult to injuries.

It started off innocently enough. You were just playing with some friends. Just having a fun night in. So how does it change to serious addiction. What are the signs that you should be looking for. When you prefer to stay in most nights playing the game instead of being with your friends. If they call and complain and instead of joining them, you desperately try to convince them to come over to play. If by some miracle they can convince you to go see a band, and the whole time you're just thinking that this song would be perfect for guitar hero and should absolutely be included on the next game. Instead of actually seeing the band in front of you, you're mentally picturing the colors scrolling along.

If your fingers start naturally "playing" even when you're nowhere near the game, and when your friends give you weird looks you calmly explain that it's green blue red duh. Then you continue doing it as if everybody should do this.

If you automatically befriend anybody who loves the game, just in the hopes that you'll have someone to play multiplayer mode with.

The most important sign. When you swear when you fail a song, and put off going to bed/work/school until you beat it. When you lose all sense of time in general, after telling someone that you'll be right there then realize four hours later that you never left. The simple reason that this game is so addicting. Everyone wants to be a rockstar but we were all granted with the talents to achieve this goal. Guitar Hero makes it easier to rock out and hear the crowd calling for an encore.

These are all signs of an addiction to one of the greatest games of all time.