Behind the Song: Jerry Buckner Talks ‘Pac-Man Fever and More

October 30, 2015 Patrick Hickey Jr. Music, Video Games 0

Review Fix chats with keyboardist, singer and songwriter Jerry Buckner, who discusses how the band’s iconic hit, “Pac-Man Fever” has been reimagined for today’s audience with “Pac-Man Fever (Eat ’Em Up) 2015, as well as how the original track affected his life.

Selling over 2.5 million copies when it was released in 1983, the song is one of the most successful one-hit wonders of all-time and has even featured in the “Rock Band” video game series. Bruckner and Garcia even appeared on American Bandstand and Solid Gold in the ‘80s and performed the track. Essentially creating the video game music genre, the band created an entirely different niche in the industry that is till around today.

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Behind the Song: Jerry Buckner Talks ‘Pac-Man Fever and More

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Patrick Hickey Jr. is the Founder, Editor-in-Chief, Master Jedi and Grand Pooh-bah of ReviewFix.com and is the author of the book, "The Minds Behind the Games: Interviews with Cult and Classic Video Game Developers," from leading academic and non-fiction publisher McFarland and Company. He is currently the Assistant Director of the Journalism Program at Kingsborough Community College and is a former News Editor at NBC Local Integrated Media and a National Video Games Writer at the late Examiner.com. He has also had articles and photos published in The New York Times, The New York Daily News, Complex and The Syracuse Post-Standard. Love him. Read him.

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