A huge part of the whole 80s experience was arcade video games. Video arcades were often very large store-sized with standing room only due to the zillions of games and the even larger number of people waiting in lines to use them.
I am guilty of donating enough quarters to buy a small country by laser-blasting dragons in "Dig-dug," saving galaxy space in "Asteroids," dodging barrels from a gorilla in "Donkey Kong," beef-smacking fried eggs in "Burger Time," eating dots in a maze in "Pac-Man," and other ridiculous tasks that seemed like a good idea to do at the time. I was quite good at many of the games and often better than my guy friends, who tended to spend more time playing video games than the girls did.
Well, as we know, whenever there is something of interest going on, someone writes a song about it. Jerry Buckner & Gary Garcia did just that by devoting an entire album to songs about the most famous video arcade games at the time, using sounds from the actual games.
Their most famous, "Pac-Man Fever," hit the airwaves in 1982 and us video game zealots appreciated it dearly. Then, just as quickly as it came, the song, the album, Buckner and Garcia, went to the same decade dumpster as parachute pants, Wacky-Wall-Walkers, and Urkel.
Gone, but not forgotten...
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