Pac-Man Fever went gold almost instantly with 1 million records sold. Columbia/CBS Records' Pac-Man Fever.was No. When Buckner & Garcia rerecorded "Mousetrap" for this release, they were unable to find a copy of the arcade game anywhere (as it was a rare game from the get-go and had failed due to it being seen as a Pac Man clone), so they recorded the dog and cat sounds at a pet store. The album was completely rerecorded in 1999 for CD release because the original album is still owned by Columbia and they reportedly declined to release it on CD. The duo performed both of these singles on American Bandstand on March 20, 1982, as well as appearing later that day on Solid Gold, singing "Pac-Man Fever". Like the title song, the album itself went on to receive a gold certification from the RIAA, for over 500,000 records sold the album sold 1,200,000 copies in total by the end of 1982. The album's second single, "Do the Donkey Kong", peaked at #103 on Billboard's Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart. It had been released independently earlier in the year on the BGO Records label, before being picked up by CBS. The title song, " Pac-Man Fever", was released as a single in December 1981 and became a top 10 hit, peaking at #9 in March 1982 on the Billboard Hot 100 and earning gold certification by the RIAA for selling over 1 million copies the single sold 2.5 million copies in total as of 2008.
The album was originally released in LP, cassette, and 8-track tape formats, and was later completely re-recorded for re-release on CD in 19. Each song on the album is about a different classic arcade game, and uses sound effects from that game. It is also the name of the first song on that album. Pac-Man Fever is a 1982 album recorded by Buckner & Garcia.
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