When I was younger, my family used to watch old Disney Sing Along Songs VHS tapes. You know, the ones where they’d show clips from Disney shows/movies and you could “follow the bouncing ball” while singing. Sort of like Disney karaoke. Nobody in my house sang to the tapes, but we liked watching them anyway.
Well, I was shopping for videogames yesterday, and it turns out that Disney has TWO sing-along videogames. One has all the High School Musical songs, and another has sixteen Hannah Montana/Jonas Brothers/Camp Rock songs. The idea is just like the old sing-along-song tapes: they show footage of the movie with the song lyrics as subtitles, and you can sing along in the microphone.
I was sorely tempted to buy the High School Musical game, just so I could force Marianne to play and get some hilarious video footage.
So here’s my demand: The sing-along videogame is a good idea, but stopping at sixteen songs is bad. Only using songs made in this century is bad, too. I want to see a massive Disney sing-along game with pretty much all the Disney songs ever. It would be an awesome family game, and best of all, it wouldn’t be hard for Disney Interactive to make.
Michael Gray is a former staff writer. Most of the work he does for GameCola nowdays is copy/pasted from his blog. 