Thursday, January 6, 2022

Wednesday cover: "Pac-Man Fever" by the BGMs

The BGMs are a Brazilian duo of Marcio Campassi and Marcos Lima who primarily do video game music. They originally released this cover of "Pac-Man Fever" in 2014, later making it part of a Pac-Man Fever EP in 2017.

The EP contains both the regular song and a karaoke mix. I was unable to find a Twitter presence for them, but they do have Facebook and SoundCloud pages.


It turns out the BGMs' cover is the ONLY cover of Pac-Man Fever to include the "insert coin" sound (a Pac-Man chomp) before playing the intro music.


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