![]() Never eat a ghost monster’s brain, eyeballs, spinal cord, spleen, or lymph nodes.Avoid jumping aimlessly over A Pair of Spring shoes.Do not use household knives or utensils to gut your ghost monster.Again, assuming this is anatomically possible. Be sure and remove all the ghost monster's internal organs, assuming it has any.Wear latex or rubber gloves when field-dressing or butchering ghost monsters.Avoid shooting, handling, or gobbling a ghost monster that appears sick.In that spirit, here are some tips that will help you avoid catching Pac Man Fever: Help us to warn everyone of this terrible disease before it is too late." "Please, Jerry Bear," said the South Korean ambassador, looking almost like a cadaver himself in his stern black suit. It was because of the epidemic nature of this illness in the early '80s that the South Korean government approached Mr. It is usually spread through the unsafe handling of Ghost Monsters. Pac Man Fever itself is a potentially fatal contagion related to Mad Cow Disease with symptoms similar to Tuberculosis. It's this kind of ambiguity that leaves us eager to give Pac Man Fever yet another spin, to hear it from yet another angle, to see another of its facets sparkling, and to look yet deeper into our own hearts and minds. Or perhaps the "you" refers to himself - perhaps Froggy is coming face to face with narcissism. But is he talking to a significant other? Perhaps he has found love? Or is "you" the audience, all of us, a man driven to insanity, schizophrenia and sexual addiction resulting from an unhealthy relationship with his audience? Maybe he's singing to the boy "playing" him via the joystick. Mousetrap, which for some reason I'm going to refer to as The Defender part two, is the next song.įinally, Berzerk leaves us with a haunting message. This is, however, subjective, and rarely do I hear of anyone saying that The Defender brings the whole album down with it. The Defender has been accused by some critics of falling short of the glory of the rest of the album, due to having such mundane and thrown-together lyrics that I can't even come up with a decent joke about them here. His submission to an addiction, which we now realize to be a sexual one, has left him in Hyperspace, where he is saddled with the responsibility of being The Defender. Now well into the second side of the LP, Froggy is not out of the woods. On the surface, Do the Donkey Kong seems like a mere break in the tension, and not a moment too soon however, it does challenge us to question our sexual preconceptions, inviting us to "do it with a partner" or "do it all alone", culminating in the next song in which Froggy is "shooting my rockets all over the place". In a not-so-subtle swipe at mega-corporate sweatshop culture, Froggy lets rip with a scathing "go ahead and run your little legs off/ do you have Nikes for all of them?" We then meet Froggy's enemy, code named Centipede. "At times I wish Froggy had wings", says the boy. There is however no mention of him being deaf, dumb, or blind.Īs the album progresses, we cycle through the various personas fighting to take hold of the protagonist, apparently named "Froggy". The boy is broke, suffering from an addiction of some kind, and living vicariously through our schizophrenic and sex-crazed ("I'm gonna eat the cherries up and take them all for a ride") hero. Opening with the title track, we are introduced to the protagonist's world from the detached perspective of a boy playing a game. One of the best responses to the question 'are you frightened of dying?' was given by Berzerk: 'INTRUDER ALERT, INTRUDER ALERT'. "I would walk up to each game in the arcade, put a quarter in (I went through a shitload of quarters that day), and ask it the questions on all the cards. Starting out with simple questions like 'what is your name?', 'what is your quest?', and 'what is the air speed velocity of an unladen swallow?', and eventually going into darker questions like 'have you ever thumped anybody?', 'were you in the right?', 'did you get off on it?' and 'can I watch next time?'. So I had a bunch of 3 x 5 cards, and wrote out a question on each card. "I don't know how the idea came up, but for some reason it was extremely important to get all these video game sounds on the record. The first thing people think of when they think of Pac Man Fever is all the sound effects that give it its particular aura.
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