Slide that album from the sleeve, place it on the dusty turntable for another installment of Sounds of the Analog Age!
We are celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the release the Album Pac-man Fever this week on Life In The Analog Age, first with this comic, and now with the rest of the album! Here are all the tracks in the original order:
Enjoy!
Cool, I had no idea there was that many songs about videos, and they are all made by the same guy who did Pac-Man Fever.
Also, is it just me, or does the Human on the Berzerk game cover look like one of the Robot Lion Pilots from Voltron?
Yeah that guy did look pretty familiar. I suppose it was a coincidence (though Americans wouldn’t see it’s version of “Golion” for another few years after this game was released for the Atari VCS/2600, someone could’ve had a chance to go to Little Tokyo and find an art book to leech from). Noticed the Atari version also boast having a comic book inside which makes me wonder if it was more of the same too.
Post coming about that very thing…
Reminded of reading later on that “Froggy’s Lament” with some of those little odd lines thrown in came out of a kid’s show from the 50’s known as “Smilin’ Ed McConnell and his Gang” (later as “Andy’s Gang” when Andy Devine took over). It’s certainly something that would go over the heads of all of us youngsters that I’m sure our parents probably got pretty quickly!
Wow! Who would have known?!
Let alone the opening signature tune of “Frogger” itself is based on a Japanese children’s tune about a policeman dog helping a lost kitty find her mom.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNKDPKEank8
There, I left you with a nice little, if not culturally obscure tidbit, and for another, enjoy Buckner & Garcia’s in-person performance (if not lip-synced) on this lost Nickelodeon program from 30 years ago!
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xp5xk4_livewire-video-games-episode_lifestyle