Tuesday, April 12, 2022

Off-topic Tuesday: "Video Games" by Open End

This song/video is from 1980, making it a pretty early entry in the "songs about video games" category. It was written by Rick E. Lewis.

Amazingly, a video for it survives and is on YouTube. However, if you want a cleaner version of the audio, you should check this one out.

When I first posted this to Twitter, I used information from a dissertation on video games and popular music coming together, which said the song was from 1978. That turned out to be incorrect.

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