Pac-Man Fever album art…WTF

Yoeddy

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I remember looking at this album cover endlessly when I was a kid. The magic of Pac-Man glowing on the CRT just like in the arcade.

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For grins, I pulled the album up in Apple Music…what the hell is this??? The Antichrist is what I call it.

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Thanks,
Jason
 
Send Jerry Buckner and email and ask him about it. He was pretty cool about answering some questions I had when I bought some waffle house records from him a while back
 
Looks like AI generated. Mostly right, but just not quite.

and ... now I'm gonna have that song in my head all day. Thanks!
 
I guess they had to use a slightly different album cover cause I the version that is more available is the 1999 remake where they used MAME for a lot of the sound effects. Or just actual meows and woofs for Mousetrap.
 
For grins, I pulled the album up in Apple Music…what the hell is this??? The Antichrist is what I call it.
Second cover is the re-release artwork. They re-recorded all the songs because CBS contract legalese etc. Never mind the artwork, which we can all agree was phoned in, but the newly recorded songs are also nowhere near as good as the original recordings.

Hopefully you saved your original vinyl copy.
 
Second cover is the re-release artwork. They re-recorded all the songs because CBS contract legalese etc. Never mind the artwork, which we can all agree was phoned in, but the newly recorded songs are also nowhere near as good as the original recordings.

Hopefully you saved your original vinyl copy.

As Sir Charles would say, "That is just TURRIBLE."

The original song was written at the bar of Shilling's on Marietta Square (which just went out of business about 5 years ago). There was apparently a Pac-Man in one corner of the front room, all the activity around it inspired the song.
 
The re-recorded version is damn near un-listenable for me. The snare drum sound they chose is on the level of Nutallica's St. Anger terrible. I simply can't stand to listen to "TINK! TINK! TINK! TINK! TINK!"....
 
The vast majority of people including myself would say the second image looks immensely better. Not all pixelated and shitty looking.
 
'I think I'm goin' Berzerk, I think I'm losing my mind!'

CRT vs LCD, is it even a debate any longer?

Please don't mess with Buckner & Garcia!

Arcade royalty.
 
And, impossible??? How does Pac-Man get into that position with dots on top and to the right?
I didn't even think that until you pointed it out. Wow. It is impossible.

But then so is stuffing a Cadillac up your nose…,
 
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