"I've got Speedy on my tail, and I know it's either him or me.
'Cause Pokey's too slow, and Blinky's out of sight"



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SYNOPSIS

Jerry Buckner and Gary Garcia were a songwriting team from Akron, Ohio who recorded jingles and commercials in the Atlanta area when they got hooked on Pac-Man. Their first encounter with the game was at a restaurant in Marietta, Georgia.
They got hooked and ended up sitting in there for two hours instead of going back to work.
Jerry said, 'Hey, let's do a song about this,' and Gary said, 'Yeah, okay, it seems like it's something fun.'

Pac-Man Fever describes a guy who heads to the arcade with a pocketful of quarters. He plays so much Pac-Man, his shoulder hurts from so much time on the joystick. The game isn't very complicated, so just about every aspect of play gets a mention in the lyric: avoiding ghosts, getting the fruit, heading out the back door, etc. Once his quarters are gone, he heads home and plans to do it again the next night.
Each song on the album is about a different classic arcade game, and uses sound effects from that game.

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SOUNDTRACK

It's been over 35 years since I've spun this album on my turntable.
Listening to the versions floating all over the Internet (including You-Tube), I realized that nobody has posted a decent copy of the album. If you listen closely to those copies (including the cassette version), the high frequencies are all shaved off (above 15Khz). Don't believe me? Run "spek" http://spek.cc and see.

To alleviate this situtaion, I went into my basement archives and dug out the vinyl album, still in it's original shrink rap, bearing the logo from J&R Manhattan, N.Y.
Popping it on an Technics SLD2 turntable with a Shure Hi-track cartridge, I ripped the audio in WAV format; then applied Pop/Crackle removal filters using Nero WaveEdit.

For all of you purists, I saved the files in "FLAC" format and posted them here.
Just for grins I ran "spek" against these files; surprisingly I'm now seeing sounds around 20Khz.
Have a listen and let me know what you think.

Enjoy!

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TRACKLIST

01 Pac-Man Fever (single) (03:48)
02 Froggy's Lament (03:13)
03 Ode to a Centipede (05:32)
04 Do the Donkey Kong (04:23)
05 Hyperspace (04:01)
06 The Defender (04:00)
07 Mousetrap (04:00)
08 Goin' Berzerk (04:13)

BONUS TRACKS
09 Pac-Man Fever (12'' Club Version) (05:48)
10 Pac-Man Fever (12'' Instrumental) (03:55)

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awesome work man! And it's very cool to hear the background and your process of obtaining the files. Rock on!

Thanks for this. I posted a tape rip a while back, it was the best I had to offer.

Thanks!!

Thanx. I've been looking for a good copy or the original version.

Thank you! Looking forward to hearing this.

Thanks for this. I posted a tape rip a while back, it was the best I had to offer.
I remember some of the earlier commercial cassette tapes had a roll off at 15Khz so as not to interfere with the old Dolby process.

Thanks, I've been hoping for a copy of the original version ever since the re-recorded album came out. I appreciate your effort & the upload, but there are a few problems...

Froggy's Lament - skips at :23
Do the Donkey Kong - skips at 3:48
Hyperspace - skips at :05, Windows tone at :19

The skips aren't anything disastrous, it's actually kind of a nostalgic reminder of how music could sound sometimes, but it'd be nicer without them. The Windows tone though, that's just gotta come out, lol. Good rip, otherwise. I enjoyed revisiting this album!

Sorry about that Geof; I'm sure this is lame but, my dog ate my Record Preener (1970's groove brush).
I was able to manually clean the dust out of the grooves and re-ripped "Frogger" and "Hyperspace" without skipping.
As for "Donkey Kong", that wasn't a skip. Apparently B&G faded the song out (almost inaudible) then jumped back in for one more chorus!

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Check out the music video on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EL27TypZSw

Holy shit, this is amazing. Thank you so much. I've looked all over for a decent copy of the album and now I have it.

Such a fun album, thank you so much!

Not seeing a link on the post, so I'm guessing we need to comment here for the link? If so, the link would be much appreciated. Thanks!

Sorry about that Geof; I'm sure this is lame but, my dog ate my Record Preener (1970's groove brush).
I was able to manually clean the dust out of the grooves and re-ripped "Frogger" and "Hyperspace" without skipping.
As for "Donkey Kong", that wasn't a skip. Apparently B&G faded the song out (almost inaudible) then jumped back in for one more chorus!

So here's the new links.
Enjoy.
http://www102.zippyshare.com/v/maoa738D/file.html
http://www102.zippyshare.com/v/6ajh6qTD/file.html

Awesome, thank you! It's much appreciated!

Not seeing a link on the post, so I'm guessing we need to comment here for the link? If so, the link would be much appreciated. Thanks!
After 30 days or so the links expire, so when I re-post, the new links usually go lower in the posts. Keep looking.

Thanks spetragl sounds like a fun album. I'll defo give it a listen to.

After 30 days or so the links expire, so when I re-post, the new links usually go lower in the posts. Keep looking.

Sorry, I must be completely blind. Not sure how I missed the new links. :)

NPRB; Meanwhile, checkout the music video on youtube, track #5. I was able to find a black and white "still" of the original Italian "Hyperspace" screen, which as everybody knows was a ripoff of Atari's "Asteroids"!

PLAY:
CLICK (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EL27TypZSw)

DOWNLOAD:
CLICK (http://www76.zippyshare.com/v/ksxjCa3u/file.html)

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Thanks mate!!

Thank you for sharing this! :)

Would someone please kindly re-upload this? Thank you.