How can you beat that? If you ask me, you can't.

The game is Audiosurf. I got it off of Steam, ad for $10, it's a bargain. If you don't have Steam, then you can get it from http://www.audio-surf.com.

Basically, it's a race, but not the "go-as-fast-as-you-can" kind. Since your music IS the game, it's going to be exactly as long as the piece. It's all about the Tetris-esque color bar at the bottom. You'll find out about that if you play, I don't want to try to explain it.

The track is created on-the-spot from music files from YOUR collection. It takes mp3, mp4, iTunes, ogg, wav (I think), and CD's, and probably a few others I couldn't think of there. But basically almost any music file out there. It analyzes the song and generates a track from that. The "cars" that you collect are generated, along with the altitude of the track, from how intense the music gets. A mellow song will be primarily uphill, and will have lots of cool colored pieces, a lot of blues in particular, while something like Rammstein will be completely downhill, with reds galore.

It also sports a neat-o online scoreboard, which posts your score automatically, by artist and song title. Each song has 3 scoreboards, for Beginner, Pro, and Expert.

If you need more encouragement, watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HH8iTd87GhU He was on Ninja Expert mode. But don't feel pressured to play Expert. I stay on Point Man and do fine there.

By the way, if you want a good song to see the altitude in action, may I suggest "Re: Your Brains" by Jonathan Coulton?