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In 1982, America’s Pac-Man Fever was at a fever-pitch with no cure in sight. The pandemic was spread by Ohio-borne songwriters Jerry Buckner and Gary Garcia when they wrote the aptly named Pac-Man Fever, which went on to sell over one million album to earn its RIAA Gold Record certification!

In March 1982, this peaked at #9 Billboard Hot 100, beating out such hits as “867-5309/jenny by Tommy Tutone” and Freeze-frame by The J. Geils Band!