Pac Man Fever

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Customer Reviews:

* some tracks re-recorded to ensure highest qwality possible [Posted on 2002-10-31]
I recently hit the buckner and garcia website and sampled the CD before I made a purchase. And I have to agree with the other reviewer of this CD, it's a nice gesture by the artists, but it doesn't compare with the original album (and single) from 1982. I STRONGLY suggest writing CBS records to have the original re-released if you love this album. Otherwise try a search on other various artists compilation CDs, the P-M-F single is out on CD, if you look hard enough.

Awesome! [Posted on 2003-05-10]
I am a DJ for a college radio station, doing a weekly show called the Jump Button, dedicated to only the music from and inspired by video games (sometimes cartoons for nostalgia's sake). A fellow staff member brought in the original '82 CBS/Columbia 12" for me to have a listen. I was floored. After spinning the vinyl a few times on the air, I immediately searched for the material in CD form. The music is well translated and the attention to detail in the disc's booklet is to be applauded.

This is an amazing throwback album, check it out!

THE ORIGINAL WAS WAY BETTER, THIS STINKS!! [Posted on 2004-04-14]
Well, if you were as excited as I was when I saw the PAC-MAN Fever album was finally on CD, you need to come back to earth. THIS IS NOT THE ORIGINAL RECORDINGS! They rerecorded it all. My favorite song, "Do the Donkey Kong" was trashed. So it's back to playing my old album, which does still sound good. My suggestion is to go look on auction websites and try to find the original recording on LP or Cassette. Of course I won't be selling mine. Unforunatly, CBS records is not releasing the original from 1982 on CD yet, and may never. K-TEL did the new release on CD. Which that's why I'm all that more discouraged. K-Tel did good in the 70's releasing records that are alot like the "NOW" CDs. If any questions please contact me at: blackmj@2fssg.usmc.mil.

Hiya, kids! [Posted on 2006-09-10]
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.

Is it real or is it................? [Posted on 2007-12-30]
I never had the album. Throughout the '70s & into the late '80s I collected 45 rpm's.

I had both 45's from this album, "Pac-Man Fever" & "Do The Donkey Kong".
Thanks to radio along with my own copy, I heard "Pac-Man Fever" to death.
And even though the song never charted, I played my copy of "Do The Donkey Kong" quite often.
I liked it just as much, if not more, as "Pac-Man Fever".

So when I discovered this cd was out I ordered one immediately.
I know it says on the front "Rerecordings", but after listening to those two singles, I'm just not convinced.
If indeed they are then it's the best rerecording I've ever heard.

Back in 1990 K-Tel released a 6-cd series titled "Seems Like Yesterday".
Each cd covered a certain time period. The first three volumes covered the 70's.
They were "Early 70s", "Mid 70s" & "Late 70s". Volumes 5 & 6 covered the 60s, "Mid 60s" & "Late 60s".
And volume 4 was "Early 80s" & included "Pac-Man Fever".

Every one of these six cd's plainly stated on the back incert "CBS Special Products".
And every song on all 6 cd's was a Columbia, Epic, or a lesser known CBS associated single.
This means that K-Tel did put the original version of "Pac-Man Fever" on "Early 80s".

So here's what I'm wondering. Since K-Tel had the rights to the song in 1990,
why would they have to resort to a rerecording just over a decade later?

When I got the cd I immediately listened to the title track & then right after it played it off "Early 80s".
Other than sounding "remastered", I couldn't really tell any difference.
Even the sound effects sounded the same, and I don't know how you could recreate that so precisely.
Plus even though it's been many years since I'd heard "Do The Donkey Kong", it also sounded as I remembered it.

And one last thing. I've been collecting music since the early '70s.
By the late '80s I had over 15,000 45's. I got out of that in '87 & turned around a week later & bought my first cd.
Now I have 9,000 of them.

Now I've seen hundreds of cheap various artists cd's where the performer
has rerecorded his "hit single".
But in all this time, I have NEVER seen an artist rerecord an entire album.
This would be the first. But like I said earlier, I'm still not convinced.

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