Pac Man Fever
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CD Details
Performer: BucknerPerformer: Garcia
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1999-06-01
Soundtracks:
- Pac Man Fever
- Froggy's Lament
- Ode To A Centipede
- Do The Donkey Kong
- Hyperspace
- The Defender
- Mousetrap
- Goin' Berzerk
Music reviews of Pac Man Fever
Music Review: Hiya, kids!
Rating: 2 Stars
I had this album back in 1982. After Buckner & Garcia had a hit with their novelty song "Pac-Man Fever", they recorded an entire album of novelty songs about video games. The songs were silly, of course, but mostly enjoyable (to my teenage brain, at least). This CD features re-recorded versions of all the songs on the album. I can't tell you how close these versions are to the original versions, since I haven't heard the original album in over 20 years. But if you want the Pac-Man Fever album on CD, I guess this is better than nothing.
Description of Pac Man Fever
This is a digitally re-recorded version of the original Pac Man Fever album released in 1982 on CBS Records. The album contained 8 songs featuring lyrics and sound effects from the top video arcade games. The new version contains the 8 original songs, original arrangements, original artists (Buckner & Garcia) and original production sound. It also contains a copy of the much desired pattern cheat sheet from the original album packaging. This is the first time this classic album has ever been available on CD.Overcoming one-hit-wonder status is difficult enough, but it's nearly impossible when the hit happens to be a novelty song. So when Buckner & Garcia, the duo responsible for the 1982 hit single "Pac-Man Fever," were asked to do a full-length, they accepted their fate as historical footnotes, offering up an entire album's worth of arcade-inspired pop music. Certainly the video-game craze was one of the defining movements of the '80s (maybe we were shallow back then?), so it's no surprise that Buckner & Garcia sing as passionately about Donkey Kong as Rage Against the Machine do about Leonard Peltier. Best of all for purveyors of Pac, each song includes sound bites from the original arcade game, adding considerably to the nostalgia factor. --Jerald Graff
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