History ThePowerOfRock / VideoGames

* The obscure UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 title ''Mad Maestro!'' did a fair job of invoking this with ''classical music'', where a young man named Takt and his amateur orchestra go around using music to help people out (and convince them to join their band for [[SavingTheOrphanage a big benefit concert]]).

* In VideoGame/{{Piratez}}, a high-level equivalent of the Battle Flag is a badass guitar. Its main function is to boost Time Units of nearby characters.

* ''VideoGame/LordOfTheRingsOnline'' gets a bit confused about this. Since ''[[Literature/LordOfTheRings the books]]'' don't have easy healing or resurrection as in most similar games, players are instead said to have morale instead of health. They don't die, they just run away and feel bad for a bit, and bards don't do supernatural healing, they just inspire their allies to continue fighting. Except that when bards sing at an enemy, they clearly fall down dead just as if they'd been hit with a sword, and can have their stuff taken and body parts looted in the normal manner. So whether this trope is in play depends on if you believe [[AllThereInTheManual what the game tells you]], or what clearly actually happens during gameplay.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Rayman}} 3: Hoodlum Havoc'', Globox, having swallowed Andre, visits Dr. Otto to have him removed. Otto plays what sounds like a rock guitar solo using Globox's arm instead of a guitar but this has no effect. The second doctor they visit, Romeo, plays a drum solo on Globox's belly, but this doesn't work either. The third doctor Globox visits conducts a classical piece, performed by Otto and Romeo (again, using Globox as an instrument). This is too much for Andre, who finally leaves.

* Before Inis made ''Ouendan'', they made ''VideoGame/GitarooMan'' for the [=PS2=], a [[WidgetSeries technicolour daydream]] about a superhero fighting aliens with his lightning-shooting guitar-weapon-thing. It was awesome.

* The obscure UsefulNotes/PlayStation title ''Mad Maestro!'' did a fair job of invoking this with ''classical music''.

* ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' champion Mordekaiser likes his weapons how he likes his music (Heavy and '''METAL'''). All of his abilities are a ShoutOut to various heavy metal songs. If that's not enough, he's ''in a band'' with four other champions. He plays the [[JustForPun Axe]].

** Donkey Kong's bongos also show up again in ''Videogame/SuperSmashBros Brawl'' as his [[LimitBreak final smash.]]

** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'' gives us two art-themed heroes: A dancer named Mog who, by battling on certain terrain, learns dances, which [[GeoEffects always work on that terrain]]. While dancing Mog is uncontrollable. And Relm, who has excellent stats as a mage, but her Sketch ability is such a UselessUsefulSpell as to turn her into a TierInducedScrappy.