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Guitar Hero Encore 80s Goes Gold - PS2, Xbox 360

2nd July 2007, 1:25pm
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Activision have sent word that Guitar Hero Encore: 80's, the awful-fashion inspired expansion to the world's number one rock talent simulator has gone gold. Not only that, but they've sent along the complete track list, with 30 tracks from the ninth decade of the twentieth century.

The complete track list is as follows:

* Caught in a Mosh (as made famous by Anthrax)
* testicles to the Wall (as made famous by Accept)
* Electric Eye (by Judas Priest)
* Los Angeles (as made famous by X)
* Police Truck (as made famous by Dead Kennedys)
* We Got the Beat (as made famous by The Go Go's)
* (I Think I'm) Turning Japanese (as made famous by Vapors)
* Seventeen (as made famous by Winger)
* Because, it's Midnite (by Limozeen)
* Hold On Loosely (as made famous by .38 Special)
* No One Like You (as made famous by Scorpions)
* Only a Lad (as made famous by Oingo Boingo)
* Ballroom Blitz (as made famous by Krokus)
* The Warrior (by Scandal)
* What I Like About You (as made famous by The Romantics)
* Wrath Child (as made famous by Iron Maiden)
* I Wanna Rock (by Twisted Sister)
* I Ran (by Flock of Seagulls)
* Round and Round (as made famous by Ratt)
* Metal Health (as made famous by Quiet Riot)
* Holy Diver (as made famous by Dio)
* Heat Of The Moment (as made famous by Asia)
* Radar Love (as made famous by White Lion)
* 18 and Life (as made famous by Skid Row)
* Bathroom Wall (as made famous by Faster Pussycat)
* Lonely is the Night (as made famous by Billy Squier)
* Nothing But a Good Time (as made famous by Poison)
* Play With Me (as made famous by Extreme)
* Shaken (as made famous by Eddie Money)
* Synchronicity II (as made famous by The Police

If that doesn't get your strumming hand itching, you probably survived the taste holocaust that was the nineteen eighties. You also missed out on some awesome leg warmers and shoulder pads.

For everyone else, Guitar Hero Encore: Rock the 80's will be available on August 1st for the PS2. No word yet on the release date for the 360 version.
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