Should I kidnap some girl and throw barrels at mustachioed men who try to do the right thing? Do they even know what that meant? And I have no idea what "Do the Donkey Kong" means at all. However, it flopped immensely compared to the first single, definitely ending this ordeal before it got too ugly, I guess. This track was the second single released by CBS in its continued illusion that this music could have prolonged commercial success. Is he trying to seduce this thing? I don't know. The totally misplaced 80s guitar solo rocks as much as it can for a half a minute there, but it just can't topple the creepy lyrics. Not really sure how a surrealist centipede inspired Buckner and Garcia to compose a horrible Flash Gordon theme rip off, but coupled with Jerry's flamboyant catcalling at the insect that the game draws its name from, this whole thing is just too weird to handle. This frog honestly sounds like he secretly enjoys barely getting hit by trucks and cars over and over and over, in an endless road-traversing journey to nowhere. He straight up sounds like your old uncle Bob who recently had to cut the smokes and just started having some salad for dinner instead of a heart attack at 55.
One of these priorities was probably creating the most lethargic voice anyone ever imagined the frog from Frogger could have. Too bad most of these samples were horribly mixed into the rest of the songs, so apparently not even they gave a damn if the sound bites matched their own creations. You hear those arcade effects in the beginning of every track? Neither Buckner nor Garcia could sample those from the game's motherboard, so everything was recorded in local arcades, presumably shushing the folks who just wanted to get their game on. And he then just finishes the song explicitly saying how he completely lost his shit over Pac-Man. This is a super-happy-feverish track over some guy singing as if he was boasting about his serious game addiction during an ad in a Saturday morning cartoon show from the 80s. But then he says, "All my money is gone, so I'll be back tomorrow night" at one point, and it just struck me. This is an arcade anthem, but that's all there is, which is kind of sad. So let's listen through the weirdness of this album in a careless effort to find a meaning behind these songs. Even though it all sounds so artificial, it really encapsulates how the mainstream audience perceived gaming culture. Today, Buckner and Garcia's music tribute to games is still considered one of the freakiest representations of the arcade scene from that time.Įach of the tracks in the Pac-Man Fever album tells the story of a classic arcade game. And that's how the silliest representation of 80s gaming culture came to be.
#Pac man fever full#
Right after releasing the single through a local label, the duo got picked by CBS to make a full album of more jingled-up homages of other major game titles of the arcades. They came up with "Pac-Man Fever," a weird and overly excited song about going quite literally insane from the desire of playing with the yellow puck dude from Namco.
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