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Article: TURNING THE (TURN)TABLES.(77 SQUARE SUNDAY)(IT'S ALL GAME)(Column)
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- The Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI)
- Article date:
- November 8, 2009
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Byline: Aaron R. Conklin
By rights, music games - kinda like vampires, 1990s TV-show reboots and Jon and Kate Gosselin - should have reached the pop culture saturation point several months ago.
There's nothing we can do to redeem Jon and Kate. As for music games, it turns out all we needed to do was break out a turntable.
DJ Hero, the latest music game from Activision, trades the plastic guitar we've all grown to know and shred for a lap-sized turntable peripheral.
On the right side is the wireless turntable itself, equipped with three Guitar Hero-style buttons you use to trigger music streams and move the turntable back and forth to ...