A short history of heavy metal in video games

Metal music – be it particularly heavy, a little glam, or somewhere else on the spectrum (no pun intended) – has made its way into the word of video games, on and off, since the early 1980s. Here’s a timeline of notable titles bearing no little rock in their digital DNA. 1982: Journey Escape Okay, maybe Journey isn’t the most rockingest of rock acts to start our, ahem, journey with here – but Journey Escape is one of the first video games to ever feature a band of any style, so here it is. Released for the Atari 2600 console, the game has the player take command of the band members, guiding them, vertically, to a ​“Scarab Escape Vehicle” (the same contraption featuring on the cover of their 1991 album, Escape) so as to make their next show on time. In the way: ​“love-cr...

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