

Once a player reaches the end of the board, players receive redemption tickets based on how far they got on the board. With store tiles, players can spend tokens to move forward, move other players backward, buy raffle tickets, or gamble for more tokens. Each tile on the board enables players to move forward or go backward, lose, gain, or steal tokens, play a single or two player mini-game, spend earned tokens, or a raffle game to earn redemption tickets. Each round begins with a mini-game which determines how far a player can move on the board. Players set the length of the game (short, medium, long) and play in rounds. Gameplay is similar to Nintendo's Mario Party, in which each player competes in a set of mini-games to advance around the board of three various worlds (Medieval, Space and Tropical). Pac-Man), Heihachi Mishima (from Tekken), Tiger Jackson (from Tekken), Astaroth (from Soul Calibur), and Reiko (from Ridge Racer). Players can choose for the six following characters: Club.Pac-Man Fever takes place again! This time, Pac-Man is throwing a party and has invited his other Namco friends to join in the activities. " "Weird Al" Yankovic shares his unreleased Beatles parody about Pac-Man". Archived from the original on 21 September 2012.

"Weird Al" Yankovic recorded a similar song in late 1981 called "Pac-Man", during the height of the game's popularity. In honor of the release of the 2015 film Pixels, Jerry Buckner, and Danny Jones with Jace Hall, took the vocals from Gary Garcia's master recording, and created a new version called "Pac-Man Fever Eat Em' Up". However, Buckner and Garcia could not obtain the original master recordings from Sony Music Entertainment, so the duo was forced to record new performances of the songs and recreate a lot of the sound effects either digitally or musically. In 1999, a re-recorded version of the album was released independently by Buckner and Garcia, which was released commercially through K-Tel in 2002. In 1998, the duo was asked to record an unplugged version of "Pac-Man Fever" exclusively for the syndicated radio show Retro Rewind. This got the attention of CBS Records as well as other stations across the country, and the single hit #9 on the US Billboard charts in 1982. The station was bombarded with calls from listeners who begged to hear it again and again.

However, when they shopped it locally, WSTR (FM) in Atlanta decided to play it for fun on their show one morning. Their manager shopped the song at radio stations nationwide, but no one wanted to play it. After that, they decided to write a novelty song about the game. The duo had never heard of the game before, but they waited their turn and played it too, and ended up playing for two hours straight.

They were eating at a restaurant down the road in Marietta, and they saw other diners swarming around a brand new Pac-Man machine.
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This song was also referenced in The Simpsons episode " A Tale of Two Springfields."īuckner and Garcia were in the Atlanta area in 1981, recording TV jingles and other low-profile studio work. This song was featured in the South Park episode " Splatty Tomato" as well as the Family Guy episode " The D in Apartment 23," both aired in 2017. VH1 ranked it at number 98 on their list of 100 Greatest One Hit Wonders of the 80s.Ī follow-up release in May 1982, "Do the Donkey Kong", just missed the Billboard chart, ranking number 103. That same month, it was certified Gold by the RIAA for over one million units shipped to retailers the single sold 1.2 million copies by the end of 1982, and 2.5 million copies in total as of 2008. Capitalizing on the video game craze of the early 1980s, the song, about the classic video game Pac-Man, peaked at number 9 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States in March 1982. " Pac-Man Fever" is a hit single by Buckner & Garcia.
