OMG, I still know the words to almost every song! It ain't Rush, but to a 12 year old in 1982, this was almost a primer for rock music. Zep came later, but not by much.
Thank you so much for ripping that shrink wrap! That was the opportunity of a lifetime, to take a mint condition LP and essentially digitally re-master it with modern equipment on the very first play. I'm listening to it right now, and it sounds totally amazing. The Pac-Man and Retro Gaming community will forever be in your debt.
Ah! Ode to a Centipede! Such deep heartfelt emotion! This is probably my favorite on this album! Edit: I forgot how badass that guitar solo was! I'm gonna have to try and learn it.
I unironically agree. Reminded me of Asia (the band). I'm sitting here singing lyrics I havent heard in 40 years and not missing too many words. It's like when Jim Ignatowski on Taxi discovered he could play classical piano.
Yes, it's a cute song lyrically but his comments now that I hear them 40 years later are a little creepy lol. Sounds like he belongs in an insane asylum ha ha. Still, a classic album!
Thanks so much for this...I own the original vinyl, too, but...it's in rough shape! It's really a shame that the original version of this album never had an official CD/digital release, and that anything you find these days is the remake/re-recorded version. That said, however, the "30th Anniversary" edition, released in 2012, is worth a listen for the interesting commentary that Jerry provides for each track.
@@Mrshoujo I mean, yeah. Generally speaking, everything sounds pretty close. Of course, the vocals have been completely re-recorded, and some of the sound effects were lost (or had to be redone). Nothing compares to the original release.
I wonder why Space Invaders wasn’t on this album. They released that song later. My favorite on this album is Do the Donkey Kong. That keyboard solo is chefs kiss
THANK YOU *VERY VERY MUCH* for uploading this Arcade Games Superb Album from Buckner and Garcia, mister ! Your FIXED VERSION and all the extras you put in are absolutely *AWSOME* and an *Invaluable Master Piece* for all 80´s music Collectors. When I was 18, a friend came from the States and told me about a Musical Band that made songs for Arcade Games. At that time, I was a fan of arcade games and spend hours and hours at the arcade gallery playing games like Pac-man, Spacer Invaders, etc. Because in those years we didn´t have Internet, but only local TV programs, we have no chance at all to meet this Band or any other. Until today, more than 30 years later, I was finally able to know and enjoy the songs of this *incredible musical band* *THANK YOU SO MUCH* for that. Greetings from the other side of the world !. This is John from Santiago de Chile, South America. Cheers and thanks !.
Thank you so much for uploading this! I was fortunate enough to find this on vinyl (in excellent condition) many years ago in its original sleeve, but I've since misplaced it. Most uploads of this record are of the remake that B&G made in the 90s. It's so good to hear the original again!
In case you're wondering about this 80's resurgence, I just had my Atari 5200 "mod"ed to connect a beautiful S-Video signal to my HiDef TV at a whopping 320x192 pixels. It's fun to play these iconic games on the "big" screen.
80's 'Inception': Listening to these songs on a Sony Walkman while playing the games in a noisy arcade. You can almost hear the big hair during the songs. So many memories.
So, I'm puttering around the house this morning, minding my own business and suddenly, in the very back of my brain I hear "🎼🎵Froggy takes one step at a time🎵 *Huh? What was that?* 🎼🎵The way that he moves has no reason or rhyme🎵 Jeezus, I haven't thought about this album in decades. I wonder why it popped up in my head like that? Thanks for posting this!
It's wild how things stay filed in our brains, and how they come up out of nowhere. Especially music. I could go decades without hearing a song, listen to it and sing right along with it! Like this album for instance.
Thank you so much for this rip! I never owned a copy of the record, so finally being able to hear it with decent clarity and no crackles/pops felt amazing.
Thank you so much my dude for posting the original versions of these songs.Ahh to be 12yrs old again lol. Bought a cd of these with the dreaded " newly recorded versions" ok but dissappointing.
There is still a skip at 16:23. Aside from that this is the best version I've heard of the original album. I've bought a few copies on cassette and couldn't get one that sounded this good.
7 when I got my uncle's copy on cassette after beating pac man adventure 2 both versions SNES and Genesis after I unlocked the second pac man game for his SNES version wrote him the code and told him how not to get killed going to the arcade
As funny as it sounds, the musicianship on this album is nothing short of awesome! The production is great as well...all the instruments sound punchy and dynamic, it’s just an awesome recording with great songs! What fun memories listening to this, thanks for posting!!
As a kid who loved and studied this music, it became evident to me many years later this is some excellent songwriting and production. Change the lyrical content no one would question it.
@@evankeal Agreed. After forty years of playing music myself and hearing them again, I gotta say these songs are still really solid. No wonder I liked this album. Fyi, I went on to be a Rushfan for four decades. The Centipede multiplies and divides.
So my grandmother left me her house, she was a horder. I stumbled across this record and got curious as to what it sounded like. Needless to say I'm enjoying it.
This is awesome. What you didn't mention is Sony would not give B&G the masters of the original release once the fad faded and it went out of print...so they had to re-record it and that's the only version available. I too had the original vinyl and played the crap out of it... it's great to have these FLAC versions available. By far my favorite song on here is the last track...Goin Berserk.
I was pretty lucky my father was a DJ back in the day and he belonged to a record pool (A record pool was like a membership for DJ's only. They actually would have DJ use only printed on them.) therefore he would come home with a box of records and listen to get the BPM's and write it on the record then take the ones he thought would work in the club. Then I would tape the ones I liked before he would take them to work. And the ones that became popular that I didn't have I would make a list of which one I wanted and he would bring them home for me to tape. I would have songs before they became popular and before my friends could buy them. A lot of my friends would ask me to make tapes for them. It became my hustle. The 80's had some great music!
@@spetragl the video arcade game called DONKEY KONG was lost in translation when it was shipped to the United States of America. The actual name of this video arcade game is called MONKEY KONG 🐒 The letter D was supposed to be the letter M. * There is no donkey is this video game.
Thanks for providing this! I have been looking for a FLAC version of the original 1982 album for about 15 years! I was always able to find the 1999 re-recorded version, but not the original version. Also....how did you obtain the licensing to play the music on RUclips? I have a channel that I would like to use music on, but not sure how to obtain the rights....and then once having the rights, how to prove to RUclips that you have them so they don't take the video down....
Excellent transfer! A lot of RUclips posts of this were made with cheap USB turntables featuring ceramic cartridges - so cheap, that the ceramic cartridge isn’t even properly loaded which results in that harsh and bass lacking quality. What’s your setup? I find the first song to be a bit hard to track as far as the s-sounds go. I can hear just a tiny hint of sibilance where he sings “Cause Pokey's too slow, and Blinky's out of sight”, but otherwise it seems like you have your cartridge alignment spot-on! I’ve never gotten that to track just right either, but still I’ve heard other RUclips videos where it was much worse and the sibilant s-sound was all over the song.
Still have the cassette tape I bought in 1982. Sadly, it got highly magnetized over the years and makes the most ungodly squeal when you try and play it.
@@Mrshoujo If the tape is indeed dried out, it may become brittle. But if you want to add some more life to it, disassemble the 2 halves carefully saving the brush and little roller wheels ; they always fall out. Now put a little WD40 on a Q-tip and rub it under each Tape Reel; but never put it on the tape itself. Re-assemble and now the Reels should spin a bit better.
I've not heard this before. Maybe tiny clips of it in TV news reports about Pac Man Fever that I saw back in the day, but I never had the record. It's pretty funny. The band playing in these songs is actually pretty good. The lyrics are silly but then it is about arcade games.
@Tony Cole I know the lyrics too. I used to sing this all the time. It was my brother's record, but I stole it. I even put a label on it that said, "Property of Sam". About 30 years later he got pissed and took it back. Yeah, I went to eBay and bought myself another copy. Word. This album RULES! Take care, Sam.
I've got pac man fever Go froggy go Centipede you can't run away Come on do the donkey kong Hyperspace I'm back in the race I'm the defender I'm caught in a mouse trap I think I'm going berserk
Thank You so much for doing this! It’s nearly impossible to find anything other than the re-recorded album from 1999 on streaming sites, and this original LP is what I had as a 14 year old back in ‘82.
As a 1992 baby who'd only heard this LP for the first time a couple years ago, I'm here to say all of these songs still slap. It's definitely not just your nostalgia drawing you back to this thing IMO. You can tell they really cared a lot about the quality of this thing even if they were totally "having fun with it" by any conventional standards. I can only imagine how stressful it must've been for these guys to see how quickly the tides shifted with rock music production throughout the early 80s & attempt to adapt - trying to ride that wave at all just seems like it must've been a complete nightmare for any musician trained on/rooted in 70s rock, I don't envy it at all. It's just like the whole sense of inter-generational alienation we encounter in the present day; the constant pressure to forsake your long-term investments in the name of "the shiny new cutting-edge thing" seems less and less like a new trend the more I think about how it must've been making this album. Must not have been easy in 1980-1981 to give yourself the space needed to deliver substance across a full LP (versus just nailing a couple singles) when music production technology (and as a result, music culture as a whole) was moving at such an unprecedentedly rapid + unpredictable pace. I suuuuper don't envy the reliance that artists had on their labels to get them studio time back then. That stuff really just makes me shudder. Like, trying to pace yourself in that situation while also abiding by deadlines just seems like it could get real agonizing REAL quick. I dunno, I guess I'm just really proud of these dudes for putting their back into every song on here no matter what. Is it a hot take to say the B-sides are my favorite part of this album by far? Like, say whatever you will about the "novelty" factor of this album - there is a *shocking* lack of corniness in these melodies when you compare it to a lot of popular music from '81 lol. Maybe I just have an extra bad taste in my mouth from stuff like Star Wars Disco (granted, not from '81, I know) but the lack of bloat/tonedeafness on this thing honestly feels like a huge accomplishment. An album like this should not "logically" be as tasteful as it is, you know? It just seems like they cared a whole lot about defying those odds and refusing to take the piss, and very few things make me feel more inspired/vindicated as a working artist honestly. Anyway, thanks for reading. Sorry for being a music snob in Pac-Man Fever RUclips Comments Section™ My discussion question for y'all: If the 1983 video game crash hadn't happened, do you think we would've seen more B&G albums? Do you think this sort of music would've still fit into an 80s pop culture where video games stayed strong for the whole decade? I think I just really want to hear what they would've done in a post-Dire Straits "Money For Nothing" landscape, but I really can't help being a bit curious either way.
I can imagine the music video of HyperSpace, 20:46 "I don't know where to run" the image freeze while the pilot shrug at the camera, and the image start fading away, very 80's .
The video games were badass in the 80s now everything sucks now and everyone has video games and they never go out and play and its sad. I remember playing Pac Man, and the old Nintendo Super Mario Brothers and SEGA. Now everything has changed.
Is this version of Mousetrap the one where Buckner and Garcia used the sounds of real dogs and cats from a pet store instead of actuall sound effects from the game? If not, I can barely hear anything except real dogs and cats.
The re-recordings used real animals since Mouse Trap machines are hard to find out in the wild. It's probably the most obscure game referenced in the album by far! You'll have a better chance finding the home ports for the Atari and Colecovision than seeking out an original cabinet. The original arcade game featured digitized voice samples for the cats, dog, and hawk.
No, this is the original version, where they did actually record the game. It's the CD remake that uses the sounds of real dogs, cats, and pigeons. (Honestly, they should have just not added sound effects at all if they couldn't find a copy of the game)
I played the crap out of this record when it came out in the 80's. My brother and I fought over a copy for years! I put my "Property of Sam" sticker on it and assumed ownership of his' old record. Later, he wanted it back. So, I went on eBay and bought another copy for myself without the awesome, "Property of Sam" sticker so it wasn't as valuable to me. This record rules! I have all the lyrics memorized and sing it anytime I see one of these old time classic games. I wish they'd re-release it on CD. I am super thankful it was uploaded here. Thanks a million for doing this. BTW, Donkey has a skip in it. :( Oh well, typical vinyl burn. Take care, Sam.
I recall hearing this song. Most likely on the radio. I recall it being a massive deal, like the Atari video game itself. Look how far we've come. This long has some great hooks in it. I think it definitely holds up. Do you?
The vinyl quality was HQ on the hard drive. Once on youtube it's a much lower quality of around 36000khz or less. Why are the club versions mp3 instead of flac if this is a Vinyl rip?
@@spetragl I was hoping the club versions would of been flacs this time. I still don't get why just 2 are mp3's unless they were not originally on the vinyl?
@@KaraokeDuov2 The "Club" mixes I had downloaded from the net as MP3. So converting to FLAC wouldn't buy you anything, The Main album was recorded as WAV and switched to FLAC without any loss.
Thanks for this upload, i was searching for a good quality rip of it on youtube but most of them are reallt low quality (as you pointed out), and also thanks for the looseless files, they'll come in handy for testing a stereo system. Cheers mate.
@@ssj4goku2004 I know. "Mousetrap" is virtually forgotten while the other seven games have endured in popularity. That's the joke I was trying to make.
@@spetragl they released it on Casset before they released it on vinyl. When they re-recorded it they couldn’t find a mouse trap cabinet anywhere so they recorded the sounds from a local pet shop. Actual dogs barking and stuff. Instead of digitized game sound effects. That’s what I mean. Know the history of the album and the artist.
@@jennifergriel861 These are the original versions from both cassette and LP in the early 80s. If you don’t believe this, go find the Mousetrap walkthru here on youtube, or play Mousetrap on an emulator like FinalBurn Neo. The sound effects are exactly the same. You’re thinking of when Bucker and Garcia rerecorded for CD in the late 90s.
Thanks for uploading this...we had the album as kids and it was one of our favourites to play when home sick from school...perked up our spirits! Now playing it for my 3 year old son...he loves dancing to it.
I still have the vinyl! You can find it on Spotify actually with creator commentary. Such memories. I was 6 when this dropped and I listened all the time
@@2macadelic569 Toys R Us have given up on video games now which is odd since they are still popular with youth. I guess the kids are mainly buying digital.
The video game section of most toy stores was a lot larger than they are today. In the late 1990s/early 2000s Toys R. Us dedicated a good quarter of their floorspace to their video game section (I got most of my NES games from Toys R Us), the front half of Kay-Bee was devoted to them, even Lionel Kiddie City had a whole aisle before it went out of business, . There was also Babbages and Electronics Boutique (later renamed EB Games) and FuncoLand. In the 1980s, you could even find games at record stores sometimes. (Sound Odyssey used to have a whole Atari section) Video rental stores got into the act for a while (great place to buy used games, but they often also sold games new). And of course the non-chain stores; I can remember none of their names, but there was one really nice place near me where I bought Dragonball Z Super Butoutden 3 for SNES. My mother's then-boyfriend even owned one in the 1980s, too, where we got a few Atari games for $15 each (Kangaroo and Pole Position). ... basically, there were *loads* of places to buy video games before Gamestop took over and effectively became a monopoly.
They aged so much better than their contemporaries, like R. Cade and the Video Victims (Ms. Pac-Man, Defender Contender, Scramble, Frenzy) and Digital Air (Dig Dug, Berzerk), where they often didn't even bother to learn the enemy names, even when they were right on the screen. (Digital Air called Fygar and Pookas "dragons" and "balloon-man" respectively; R. Cade called Evil Otto "the bouncing ball" and thought Ms. Pac-Man was Pac-Man's sister). Buckner and Garcia actually played the games and talked to people who played the games, making sure they got the terminology right. Unfortunately, Buckner and Garcia then fell victim to the same lack of research later on, with Pokemon Fever, which refers to Ash as a "Cyber-cop", mixes up English and Japanese names for towns, and explicitly calls Misty a Pokemon.
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Yes, the ORIGINAL versions!!
OMG, I still know the words to almost every song!
It ain't Rush, but to a 12 year old in 1982, this was almost a primer for rock music. Zep came later, but not by much.
Thank you so much for ripping that shrink wrap! That was the opportunity of a lifetime, to take a mint condition LP and essentially digitally re-master it with modern equipment on the very first play. I'm listening to it right now, and it sounds totally amazing. The Pac-Man and Retro Gaming community will forever be in your debt.
I'm only 15 years old and this album is already my favorite of all time.
Ode to a Centipede is a classic!
Bob Dylan cannot hold a candle to the lyrical mastery exemplified on this album.
I just got 40 years younger listening to this. Boy, this sure brings back memories.
Ah! Ode to a Centipede! Such deep heartfelt emotion! This is probably my favorite on this album!
Edit: I forgot how badass that guitar solo was! I'm gonna have to try and learn it.
I unironically agree. Reminded me of Asia (the band). I'm sitting here singing lyrics I havent heard in 40 years and not missing too many words.
It's like when Jim Ignatowski on Taxi discovered he could play classical piano.
Yes, it's a cute song lyrically but his comments now that I hear them 40 years later are a little creepy lol. Sounds like he belongs in an insane asylum ha ha. Still, a classic album!
I've corrected the skip on the last track.
If anyone is interested, I have the fixed version.
Awesome, thanks
Thank you very much
Thanks so much for this...I own the original vinyl, too, but...it's in rough shape! It's really a shame that the original version of this album never had an official CD/digital release, and that anything you find these days is the remake/re-recorded version. That said, however, the "30th Anniversary" edition, released in 2012, is worth a listen for the interesting commentary that Jerry provides for each track.
Pac Man Fever original single was released on KTel's Kooky Tunes CD. Otherwise the rest on the re-recorded CD sound the same.
@@Mrshoujo I mean, yeah. Generally speaking, everything sounds pretty close. Of course, the vocals have been completely re-recorded, and some of the sound effects were lost (or had to be redone). Nothing compares to the original release.
I wonder why Space Invaders wasn’t on this album. They released that song later. My favorite on this album is Do the Donkey Kong. That keyboard solo is chefs kiss
THANK YOU *VERY VERY MUCH* for uploading this Arcade Games Superb Album from Buckner and Garcia, mister !
Your FIXED VERSION and all the extras you put in are absolutely *AWSOME* and an *Invaluable Master Piece* for all 80´s music Collectors.
When I was 18, a friend came from the States and told me about a Musical Band that made songs for Arcade Games. At that time, I was a fan of arcade games and spend hours and hours at the arcade gallery playing games like Pac-man, Spacer Invaders, etc.
Because in those years we didn´t have Internet, but only local TV programs, we have no chance at all to meet this Band or any other.
Until today, more than 30 years later, I was finally able to know and enjoy the songs of this *incredible musical band*
*THANK YOU SO MUCH* for that.
Greetings from the other side of the world !.
This is John from Santiago de Chile, South America.
Cheers and thanks !.
I'm glad you like it.
Thank you so much for uploading this! I was fortunate enough to find this on vinyl (in excellent condition) many years ago in its original sleeve, but I've since misplaced it. Most uploads of this record are of the remake that B&G made in the 90s. It's so good to hear the original again!
In case you're wondering about this 80's resurgence, I just had my Atari 5200 "mod"ed to connect a beautiful S-Video signal to my HiDef TV at a whopping 320x192 pixels.
It's fun to play these iconic games on the "big" screen.
HAHAHA back in the days when we had to walk across the room to change the channel!!
Got this for an Easter gift... Really wanted it because the paper sleeve had all the pac-man patterns on it.
80's 'Inception': Listening to these songs on a Sony Walkman while playing the games in a noisy arcade. You can almost hear the big hair during the songs. So many memories.
Big 80s hair wasn't a thing in 1981
So, I'm puttering around the house this morning, minding my own business and suddenly, in the very back of my brain I hear "🎼🎵Froggy takes one step at a time🎵
*Huh? What was that?*
🎼🎵The way that he moves has no reason or rhyme🎵
Jeezus, I haven't thought about this album in decades. I wonder why it popped up in my head like that? Thanks for posting this!
It's wild how things stay filed in our brains, and how they come up out of nowhere. Especially music. I could go decades without hearing a song, listen to it and sing right along with it! Like this album for instance.
Drop your magic twanger frogger
@@chadgraves2618 Go Froggy! Go!
Thank you so much for this rip! I never owned a copy of the record, so finally being able to hear it with decent clarity and no crackles/pops felt amazing.
Wow....I can't believe that the lyrics are all coming back to me from playing this album over and over 43+ years ago.
Amazing that 2 guys hanging out at a bar playing video games could turn out a Mega Hit!
Had this on vinyl when I was a kid
Me too. It had the patterns for Pacman on the album sleeve.
I was a kid during the whole pac man fever thing & I had no idea till now there was a whole album lol
All of those Atari video game songs had us dancin' and playing at the arcade/at home in the 80s as kids.
Thanks Jerry and Gary
Thank you so much my dude for posting the original versions of these songs.Ahh to be 12yrs old again lol. Bought a cd of these with the dreaded " newly recorded versions" ok but dissappointing.
40 anniversary of pac man
Sorry about the re-up. One of my buddies on ffshrine caught 2 skips.
Ah analogue, I remember it well!
There is still a skip at 16:23. Aside from that this is the best version I've heard of the original album. I've bought a few copies on cassette and couldn't get one that sounded this good.
Ahhh to be 9 yrs old again!! I had the full album on cassette!!!
Me too, and the same age. I played it til it wore out, then bought the CD years later.
7 when I got my uncle's copy on cassette after beating pac man adventure 2 both versions SNES and Genesis after I unlocked the second pac man game for his SNES version wrote him the code and told him how not to get killed going to the arcade
As funny as it sounds, the musicianship on this album is nothing short of awesome! The production is great as well...all the instruments sound punchy and dynamic, it’s just an awesome recording with great songs! What fun memories listening to this, thanks for posting!!
As a kid who loved and studied this music, it became evident to me many years later this is some excellent songwriting and production. Change the lyrical content no one would question it.
@@evankeal Agreed. After forty years of playing music myself and hearing them again, I gotta say these songs are still really solid. No wonder I liked this album.
Fyi, I went on to be a Rushfan for four decades.
The Centipede multiplies and divides.
@@MrRezRising Rushfan since 82 myself. If we were neighbors I see a jam in there somewhere.😀
So my grandmother left me her house, she was a horder. I stumbled across this record and got curious as to what it sounded like. Needless to say I'm enjoying it.
First record I ever owned.
This is awesome. What you didn't mention is Sony would not give B&G the masters of the original release once the fad faded and it went out of print...so they had to re-record it and that's the only version available. I too had the original vinyl and played the crap out of it... it's great to have these FLAC versions available.
By far my favorite song on here is the last track...Goin Berserk.
Singer's voice kinda reminds me of the singer for Molly Hatchet.
ARE YOU DOING THE DONKEY KONG?!
DO THE DONKEY KONG!
COME ON!
16:22 split
Come on! Come on! (Come on!)
C-onkey Kong! (Come on and do the Donkey Kong!)
Got this album for in '82 from my parents as a Christmas gift. I was 11. I never stopped playing it.
You're so lucky. My experience of it was because of Rock Band Network.
I was pretty lucky my father was a DJ back in the day and he belonged to a record pool (A record pool was like a membership for DJ's only. They actually would have DJ use only printed on them.) therefore he would come home with a box of records and listen to get the BPM's and write it on the record then take the ones he thought would work in the club. Then I would tape the ones I liked before he would take them to work. And the ones that became popular that I didn't have I would make a list of which one I wanted and he would bring them home for me to tape. I would have songs before they became popular and before my friends could buy them. A lot of my friends would ask me to make tapes for them. It became my hustle. The 80's had some great music!
My uncle had the original with all the pac man patterns on the record sleeve
Thanks for uploading these great songs from a very specific time in my childhood. Made my day!
I was introduced to it as a teenager and I still listen to the whole album every once in a while.
The crown jewel of the Columbia House 12 tapes for 1 cent deal!
Wow you remember that? You would sign up, then get a box of records delivered to your house!
@@spetragl the video arcade game called DONKEY KONG was lost in translation when it was shipped to the United States of America. The actual name of this video arcade game is called MONKEY KONG 🐒 The letter D was supposed to be the letter M.
* There is no donkey is this video game.
Thanks for providing this! I have been looking for a FLAC version of the original 1982 album for about 15 years! I was always able to find the 1999 re-recorded version, but not the original version.
Also....how did you obtain the licensing to play the music on RUclips? I have a channel that I would like to use music on, but not sure how to obtain the rights....and then once having the rights, how to prove to RUclips that you have them so they don't take the video down....
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Excellent transfer! A lot of RUclips posts of this were made with cheap USB turntables featuring ceramic cartridges - so cheap, that the ceramic cartridge isn’t even properly loaded which results in that harsh and bass lacking quality.
What’s your setup? I find the first song to be a bit hard to track as far as the s-sounds go. I can hear just a tiny hint of sibilance where he sings “Cause Pokey's too slow, and Blinky's out of sight”, but otherwise it seems like you have your cartridge alignment spot-on!
I’ve never gotten that to track just right either, but still I’ve heard other RUclips videos where it was much worse and the sibilant s-sound was all over the song.
Technics SLD2 Turntable with Shure HiTrack cartridge, circa 1980s.
Still have the cassette tape I bought in 1982. Sadly, it got highly magnetized over the years and makes the most ungodly squeal when you try and play it.
That squeal isn't from being "magnetized." The tape needs dried out.
@@Mrshoujo If the tape is indeed dried out, it may become brittle.
But if you want to add some more life to it, disassemble the 2 halves carefully saving the brush and little roller wheels ; they always fall out.
Now put a little WD40 on a Q-tip and rub it under each Tape Reel; but never put it on the tape itself.
Re-assemble and now the Reels should spin a bit better.
I've not heard this before. Maybe tiny clips of it in TV news reports about Pac Man Fever that I saw back in the day, but I never had the record. It's pretty funny. The band playing in these songs is actually pretty good. The lyrics are silly but then it is about arcade games.
I know I'm not the only 1 who remembers the words to most of these songs. Damn we are getting old folks lol
@Tony Cole I know the lyrics too. I used to sing this all the time. It was my brother's record, but I stole it. I even put a label on it that said, "Property of Sam". About 30 years later he got pissed and took it back. Yeah, I went to eBay and bought myself another copy. Word. This album RULES! Take care, Sam.
I can too.
I've got pac man fever
Go froggy go
Centipede you can't run away
Come on do the donkey kong
Hyperspace I'm back in the race
I'm the defender
I'm caught in a mouse trap
I think I'm going berserk
I cried during Goin' BERZERK ~ I got lost in the Shuffle
Por los buenos tiempos, de juegos de video en las maquinitas, salud!!
OMG!!! I ❤❤❤
Thank You so much for doing this! It’s nearly impossible to find anything other than the re-recorded album from 1999 on streaming sites, and this original LP is what I had as a 14 year old back in ‘82.
Found a sealed copy of this album not too long ago! The songs grew on me quick!
Defender the game rocked
39 anniversary of donkey kong
As a 1992 baby who'd only heard this LP for the first time a couple years ago, I'm here to say all of these songs still slap. It's definitely not just your nostalgia drawing you back to this thing IMO. You can tell they really cared a lot about the quality of this thing even if they were totally "having fun with it" by any conventional standards.
I can only imagine how stressful it must've been for these guys to see how quickly the tides shifted with rock music production throughout the early 80s & attempt to adapt - trying to ride that wave at all just seems like it must've been a complete nightmare for any musician trained on/rooted in 70s rock, I don't envy it at all. It's just like the whole sense of inter-generational alienation we encounter in the present day; the constant pressure to forsake your long-term investments in the name of "the shiny new cutting-edge thing" seems less and less like a new trend the more I think about how it must've been making this album.
Must not have been easy in 1980-1981 to give yourself the space needed to deliver substance across a full LP (versus just nailing a couple singles) when music production technology (and as a result, music culture as a whole) was moving at such an unprecedentedly rapid + unpredictable pace. I suuuuper don't envy the reliance that artists had on their labels to get them studio time back then. That stuff really just makes me shudder. Like, trying to pace yourself in that situation while also abiding by deadlines just seems like it could get real agonizing REAL quick.
I dunno, I guess I'm just really proud of these dudes for putting their back into every song on here no matter what. Is it a hot take to say the B-sides are my favorite part of this album by far? Like, say whatever you will about the "novelty" factor of this album - there is a *shocking* lack of corniness in these melodies when you compare it to a lot of popular music from '81 lol. Maybe I just have an extra bad taste in my mouth from stuff like Star Wars Disco (granted, not from '81, I know) but the lack of bloat/tonedeafness on this thing honestly feels like a huge accomplishment. An album like this should not "logically" be as tasteful as it is, you know? It just seems like they cared a whole lot about defying those odds and refusing to take the piss, and very few things make me feel more inspired/vindicated as a working artist honestly.
Anyway, thanks for reading. Sorry for being a music snob in Pac-Man Fever RUclips Comments Section™
My discussion question for y'all:
If the 1983 video game crash hadn't happened, do you think we would've seen more B&G albums? Do you think this sort of music would've still fit into an 80s pop culture where video games stayed strong for the whole decade? I think I just really want to hear what they would've done in a post-Dire Straits "Money For Nothing" landscape, but I really can't help being a bit curious either way.
Responsible for wasting trillions of child allowance quarters 81-82
I can imagine the music video of HyperSpace, 20:46 "I don't know where to run" the image freeze while the pilot shrug at the camera, and the image start fading away, very 80's .
The video games were badass in the 80s now everything sucks now and everyone has video games and they never go out and play and its sad. I remember playing Pac Man, and the old Nintendo Super Mario Brothers and SEGA. Now everything has changed.
Pure unadulterated nostalgia
Dude I'm 11 again...
Is this version of Mousetrap the one where Buckner and Garcia used the sounds of real dogs and cats from a pet store instead of actuall sound effects from the game?
If not, I can barely hear anything except real dogs and cats.
Nope, it's the original one.
The re-recordings used real animals since Mouse Trap machines are hard to find out in the wild. It's probably the most obscure game referenced in the album by far! You'll have a better chance finding the home ports for the Atari and Colecovision than seeking out an original cabinet. The original arcade game featured digitized voice samples for the cats, dog, and hawk.
No, this is the original version, where they did actually record the game. It's the CD remake that uses the sounds of real dogs, cats, and pigeons. (Honestly, they should have just not added sound effects at all if they couldn't find a copy of the game)
muita nostagia traz esse album , muito obrigado
I played the crap out of this record when it came out in the 80's. My brother and I fought over a copy for years! I put my "Property of Sam" sticker on it and assumed ownership of his' old record. Later, he wanted it back. So, I went on eBay and bought another copy for myself without the awesome, "Property of Sam" sticker so it wasn't as valuable to me. This record rules! I have all the lyrics memorized and sing it anytime I see one of these old time classic games. I wish they'd re-release it on CD. I am super thankful it was uploaded here. Thanks a million for doing this. BTW, Donkey has a skip in it. :( Oh well, typical vinyl burn. Take care, Sam.
I recall hearing this song. Most likely on the radio. I recall it being a massive deal, like the Atari video game itself. Look how far we've come.
This long has some great hooks in it. I think it definitely holds up. Do you?
The vinyl quality was HQ on the hard drive. Once on youtube it's a much lower quality of around 36000khz or less. Why are the club versions mp3 instead of flac if this is a Vinyl rip?
Oh, silly me!
@@spetragl I was hoping the club versions would of been flacs this time. I still don't get why just 2 are mp3's unless they were not originally on the vinyl?
@@KaraokeDuov2 The "Club" mixes I had downloaded from the net as MP3. So converting to FLAC wouldn't buy you anything, The Main album was recorded as WAV and switched to FLAC without any loss.
@@spetragl Oh OK. I thought maybe the remix was from the album also. No worries then.
Tried downloading the fixed version but the 4shared site isn't working :/
@@spetragl And that link now doesn't work either. Try another file host.
@@Mrshoujo Re-upped.
Link at top of post
I have this record. lol
Una joya hizo por el hit de Pac-Man
Thanks for this upload, i was searching for a good quality rip of it on youtube but most of them are reallt low quality (as you pointed out), and also thanks for the looseless files, they'll come in handy for testing a stereo system.
Cheers mate.
41 anniversary of pac man
Songs about beloved classic arcade games, and also "Mousetrap."
Mouse trap did have a video game. I had it for the Intellivision
@@ssj4goku2004 I know. "Mousetrap" is virtually forgotten while the other seven games have endured in popularity. That's the joke I was trying to make.
If only someone could restore the original ORIGINAL songs from Casset tape that still had the sounds from the mouse trap arcade machine in it.
This is the original vinyl from the first Release in N.Y.C. Listen to Mouse Trap at 1:58 and 2:49; the effects are there.
@@spetragl they released it on Casset before they released it on vinyl. When they re-recorded it they couldn’t find a mouse trap cabinet anywhere so they recorded the sounds from a local pet shop. Actual dogs barking and stuff. Instead of digitized game sound effects. That’s what I mean. Know the history of the album and the artist.
@@jennifergriel861 Maybe try the Retro Gaming Forums; someone is bound to have it.
@@jennifergriel861 These are the original versions from both cassette and LP in the early 80s. If you don’t believe this, go find the Mousetrap walkthru here on youtube, or play Mousetrap on an emulator like FinalBurn Neo. The sound effects are exactly the same.
You’re thinking of when Bucker and Garcia rerecorded for CD in the late 90s.
@@chrispyhtila5902 Better yet play on MAME.
I had pacman fever 45. Played it to death lol. Yep, like millions others, I spend my entire paper route money at the arcades. Miss them days.
you can always get another paper route .. lol
40 anniversary of donkey kong
And Frogger
Tank you very much !!!😉🤘 👏👏👏👏👏👏🙌🙌🙌🙌
Centipede was my game
Go Froggy Go sounds like Wall of Voodoo and Stan Ridgeway's singing style.
Do the donkey kong, more like hit the yoshi on em.
The time I thought the song was through. 😅
thank you. i wish you'd left the pops & clicks
I wish Starbomb was more like this
I still have this record.
Thanks for uploading this...we had the album as kids and it was one of our favourites to play when home sick from school...perked up our spirits! Now playing it for my 3 year old son...he loves dancing to it.
Top 5 Pac man fever, frogger, centipede, wreck it Ralph , and mouse trap.
It's thanks to Rock Band 3 I know this album. They were hip with the game music before it was common. :D
The OG of video game fan songs. Heres hoping one of the modern artists makes a tribute
Incredible sound quality. Thanks!
Love all these songs, my older brother had the cassette tape...I wore it out lol.
Excellent rip!! A super classic album!! Thanks!!
2019
Another year in the past.
I love this album
I want this album I use to have it when I was a kid
Awesome thank you
I love 80s classic
This use to be a great recording but there are so many ads now I can't fall asleep to it.
Download it.
@@Mrshoujo if I had RUclips premium to download it, I wouldn't have commercials anyway.
I still have the vinyl! You can find it on Spotify actually with creator commentary. Such memories. I was 6 when this dropped and I listened all the time
Link to download your HD rip of the album?
.See bottom of thread.
@@spetragl THANKS for sharing this!
Where'd that link go? Cuz I would sure love to have it.
@@spetragl You magnificent b*stard!
@@spetragl HUGE thanks for the lossless rip of the original. It's a perfect compliment to my 30th Anniversary CD with the later recordings.
These are so catchy.
i wuz here
Before Gamestop what was there?
EB games and before that toys R us or mom n pop retailers. feel like there was 1 more big one, funkoland or something
@@2macadelic569 Toys R Us have given up on video games now which is odd since they are still popular with youth. I guess the kids are mainly buying digital.
The video game section of most toy stores was a lot larger than they are today. In the late 1990s/early 2000s Toys R. Us dedicated a good quarter of their floorspace to their video game section (I got most of my NES games from Toys R Us), the front half of Kay-Bee was devoted to them, even Lionel Kiddie City had a whole aisle before it went out of business, . There was also Babbages and Electronics Boutique (later renamed EB Games) and FuncoLand. In the 1980s, you could even find games at record stores sometimes. (Sound Odyssey used to have a whole Atari section) Video rental stores got into the act for a while (great place to buy used games, but they often also sold games new). And of course the non-chain stores; I can remember none of their names, but there was one really nice place near me where I bought Dragonball Z Super Butoutden 3 for SNES. My mother's then-boyfriend even owned one in the 1980s, too, where we got a few Atari games for $15 each (Kangaroo and Pole Position).
... basically, there were *loads* of places to buy video games before Gamestop took over and effectively became a monopoly.
@@2macadelic569 from what I understand EB games is the European version of GameStop that’s what my Australian friends tell me
NYC its Woolworths stores for me.
Wreck it Ralph song should have been on here.
Autism
This album was released in the 80s.
Wreck-it-Ralph didn't _exist_ back then.
This isnt the pac rat song
No but the songs are still great except for Ode To A Centipede.
Cringy but catchy i guess....
Alex,give me 'SONGS THAT DIDNT AGE WELL" for$200 please.
Won't find these in that category.
Wait... why would these be included? This is fucking gold in 2022
They aged so much better than their contemporaries, like R. Cade and the Video Victims (Ms. Pac-Man, Defender Contender, Scramble, Frenzy) and Digital Air (Dig Dug, Berzerk), where they often didn't even bother to learn the enemy names, even when they were right on the screen. (Digital Air called Fygar and Pookas "dragons" and "balloon-man" respectively; R. Cade called Evil Otto "the bouncing ball" and thought Ms. Pac-Man was Pac-Man's sister). Buckner and Garcia actually played the games and talked to people who played the games, making sure they got the terminology right.
Unfortunately, Buckner and Garcia then fell victim to the same lack of research later on, with Pokemon Fever, which refers to Ash as a "Cyber-cop", mixes up English and Japanese names for towns, and explicitly calls Misty a Pokemon.
I imagine they wouldn't have aged very well to someone who's a miserable sod who hates fun.
Literally just bought an original vinyl of this for just $10 yesterday
Nice album, on the last song you should've done Night Stalker!