Pac Man turns 40 years old this month, and he still has that “it” factor. The Guinness Book of World Records says he’s the best-known video game character in the world to this day! Pac Man has spawned a plethora of merch, a Saturday morning cartoon show, a breakfast cereal, hats, t-shirts, stickers, magnets and a whole bunch of yellow Pac Man stuff.
He also inspired one of the most successful songs of all time, Buckner & Garcia’s “Pac-Man Fever.” The song shot up to No. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100 and sold a very impressive 1.2 million copies for a novelty song! VH1 ranked it at No. 98 on its list of “100 Greatest One Hit Wonders of the ‘80s.” Now one-half of Bucker & Garcia, Jerry Buckner, and friend and musical collaborator, Mike Stewart, are celebrating Pac-Man’s 40th birthday with Pac-Man Fever: The Story Behind the Unlikely ’80’s Hit That Defined a Worldwide Craze, the first-ever Kindle E-book to contain music. Here’s something cool, It comes with a secret link to the “Pac-Man Fever Vault,” a virtual mecca of audio artifacts for Pac Man fans.
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