Video Game Novelty Songs ?

[Technosis]

I'm looking for some websites that have audio files of long forgotten "novelty" songs about video games. (i.e. songs like Pac-Man Fever, Asteroids by Damaskus, etc.) Thanks.

[qbertandernie]

the entire album 'pacman fever' is all video game based songs...dont have a link, but might help you find several at once

[Phosphor Dot Fossils]

It's so obscure as to be completely underground, but I love Duppy's "Mr. Do! We Love You" song. It's right up there with any of the Buckner & Garcia material. :wink 2:

[Push Upstairs]

MORTAL KOMBATTTTTT!!!

Just buy "Mortal Kombat: The Album" (not the soundtracks). If you look up "Awesome" in the dictionary a picture of that album is under the word.

Thats how good that album is. 8-)

[Technosis]

MORTAL KOMBATTTTTT!!!

Just buy "Mortal Kombat: The Album" (not the soundtracks). If you look up "Awesome" in the dictionary a picture of that album is under the word.

Thats how good that album is. 8-)

I'm guessing you are referring to the album by "The Immortals". Very good album...I used to sometimes hear the song "Test your might" played in techno clubs. I especially like Kano's song "Use your Might".

I am more looking for obscure arcade and classic songs like Duppy's "Mr. Do! We Love You" as mentioned above. Now I just have to track this title down :-)

[Dan Iacovelli]

how about space invaders by uncle vic that song was always funny
"he's hooked he's hooked his brain is cooked Space Invaders"

[Captain Wrong]

how about space invaders by uncle vic that song was always funny
"he's hooked he's hooked his brain is cooked Space Invaders"

I saw thinking that too. That's one of the first 45s I ever owned. :D

[k8track]

I’d have to say my favorite video game song is about an old Intellivision classic, “The ABPA Backgammon Suite in K-sharp Minor”, by Uncle Stinky’s Amalgamated Xenophobic Ragtime Jug Band. The way the fluglehorns and washboard section interweave with each other really elicits a sense of pathos. Also very bold and daring (at the time, though now cliché and pretty much standard in every modern video game novelty song) is the seven minute jew’s harp solo; every angst-ridden twang evokes a picture of the struggle of the white pieces versus the black ones. It’s both beautiful and terrible.

A close second for me would be “We Are the World” by USA for Africa. Ostensibly about hunger relief, upon closer scrutiny, reading between the lines, and countless listenings later, it’s obvious that it’s actually an allegory about Donkey Kong Jr. Math for the NES.

[Rogmeister]

Around the time Pac-Man Fever came out, I picked up another LP of video game songs by some other group...I forget the name of the act. The songs were pretty bad and forgettable though I did like the cheerleader cheers for Ms. Pac-Man. I also remember a song called Video Game Maniac. And while it wasn't about video games, there was a country song about Rubik's Cube...

[Push Upstairs]

Uncle Stinky’s Amalgamated Xenophobic Ragtime Jug Band

That is, quite simply, the greatest band name ever thought up.

[98PaceCar]

There's a track on Buckethead's Monsters and Robots album that uses some of the sounds from Sinistar. Very cool song too!

[YoshiM]

Around the time Pac-Man Fever came out, I picked up another LP of video game songs by some other group...I forget the name of the act. The songs were pretty bad and forgettable though I did like the cheerleader cheers for Ms. Pac-Man. I also remember a song called Video Game Maniac. And while it wasn't about video games, there was a country song about Rubik's Cube...

I think you may be thinking of R.Cade and the Video Victims. The only songs I like on that LP are "Change Attendant" and "In the Arcade". Others are just OK.