Saturday, November 6, 2021

Week 4: Album sleeve

Something unique to the Pac-Man Fever album are the Pac-Man patterns on both sides of the album sleeves. They even advertised them with a sticker on the shrink wrap! 

Photo courtesy Discogs.com

Here are the patterns in 4K-ish glory (courtesy Rodney Siddall). 


In case you're... younger than me, the ghost monsters in the Pac-Man arcade game reacted in predictable manners to Pac-Man's movements. Therefore, there was practically an industry devoted to publishing patterns players could memorize to excel at the game. The patterns here are credited to Edgel and Chuck Groves. We'll be seeing Edgel Groves' name again a little later.

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