Tuesday, December 18, 2018

Rock Stars in Video Games (UCR)



The arcade video game boom of the late ’70s and early ’80s might have made household names of Space InvadersDonkey Kong and Asteroids, but the rock ’n’ roll world was dubious about this new-fangled form of entertainment. As Pac-Man got his own novelty song and the Pretenders employed game sounds on the instrumental “Space Invader,” other musicians seemed to consider video games as a quirky fad with the staying power of the pet rock.

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