Buckner & Garcia - Goin' Berzerk

[@DR-rz2eg]

The was our first dance song at our wedding. 40 years and going strong!

[@justinw6658]

It's the perfect song for the wedding. It's about playing the video game BERZERK with the one you love. And you're letting her know that you love her by saying "I'm berzerk over you."

[@tabe8850]

“If we fight this thing together there’s a chance that we might win.” Awesome

[@luciusm.r-r.valentine6878]

When i was a wee kid my dad used to play this on our absolutely ancient speaker set in the kitchen, now im 16 and we're jamming to it in the car rn :)

[@justinw6658]

This is one of my most favorite songs from Buckner & Garcia's PAC-MAN FEVER album. It's about playing the video game BERZERK with the one you love. And you're telling her you love her by saying "I'm berzerk over you." I read that somebody played this song at a wedding reception. I think it is a good song to play at the wedding reception.

[@tony--james]

for the novelty of the content, this is actually a pretty decent underrated album I had it at the time also, also these games depicted on this album always amaze with what they did with so little back then, just listen to the sound effects, incredible times!! Incredible game play!,

[@justinw6658]

I agree. This is a great album!

[@jeopardy60611]

Games like Berzerk fascinated me as a kid because they had synthetic speech. I was also fascinated with the voice synthesizer for the TRS-80 computer. That interest paved the way for what I'm doing now, a Voice Internet Service that reads email and web pages over the phone with synthetic speech.

[@detroitpolak9904]

I played the hell outta this album at 9 years old when it came out. Thanks!!

[@doteaters]

The thing I like most about the Buckner & Garcia album Pac-Man Fever is the surprising variety between songs. For an album surrounding a theme, they explore a lot of different musical styles. I guess it reflect the arcades themselves at the time, where you could wander in and find a wild variety of different types of games... and not all just either driving games or one-on-one fighters.

[@Reliableemily]

Low-key the best song on the album

[@PrincessShokora2002]

Yes

[@blackroostercreation]

I used to listen to the cassette quite a bit. I never bought the CD, but I've downloaded most of the songs from iTunes. I love most of the songs they've done.

[@123456RaulMorales]

Ideal song for the ones who feel madly in love for someone!!

[@justinw6658]

I agree. You're playing the video game with the one you love. And you're telling her you love her by saying "I'm berzerk over you."

[@Truckingwithglenn]

When I was a teenager I would spend hours playing this album

[@mario3mmelero571]

Great memories from junior high, loved the song.

[@liamfunnyman6965]

I love how this song sounds like it could easily be covered by some kind of video game-themed boy band.

[@ThatGreenSpy]

The beginning sounded like All Out Of Love by Air Supply.

[@jeopardy60611]

The game Berzerk fascinated me so much back in 1980. I'll never forget when I played it for the first time in an arcade back then. I thought it looked so cool when there were no lights on in the room. Also, the computerized speech fascinated me and paved the way for what I'm doing now, a system that reads email and web pages over the phone using text-to-speech. Of course, the Nuance text-to-speech engine sounds so much better than the speech in games like Berzerk.

[@raejae4375]

jeopardy60611 that's cool :) was born in 85' and I can remember playing Pac man, loved it! And the 1st mario bros ha!

[@strings4105]

The synthesized speech in the game always reminded me of the Cylons from original Battlestar Galactica.

[@stanleyjedrzejczyk2966]

@@strings4105 It did and you're right, I thought so too back in 82, at age 13 when I first played it!

[@scottandrewhutchins]

I had the board game, which was pretty cool.

[@GisherJohn24]

why do I cry when I hear this?

[@tonycole2097]

This was my favorite song on the album. How does this stuff just pop into my brain after all these years lmfao

[@Truckingwithglenn]

That album is my all time favorite i wish i could find it on cd

[@merlinforever]

"Intruder Alert, Intruder Alert, " Love it man..

[@ThunderFist1978]

The CD is a re-recording. In fact, in the song "Mouse Trap", there is no audio from the arcade game since they weren't able to find a Mouse Trap arcade game when they were re-recording for the CD. They put sounds from nature in instead. I've never seen a Mouse Trap arcade game myself, but would love to play one someday. Playing it on the Colecovision is great and all, but it's still not the same.

[@GisherJohn24]

The coleco version is arcade perfect

[@ThunderFist1978]

Since this comment, I have seen and played on two Mouse Trap cabinets, one at Galloping Ghost Arcade in Brookfield, IL, and at The Place Retro Arcade in Cincinnati.

[@zazelby]

@@GisherJohn24 I've played the Colecovision version, and while it's really good, it's not quite arcade perfect. (The sound effects, especially; the dog and cats sounded like an old train. The Atari 2600 had cats that sounded more like cats, and that one was definitely not arcade-perfect)

[@Cheeselord83]

I lost my virginity to this song. Good memories.

[@Robo983]

RIP Garcia

[@s.m.g.2166]

Synth, Thanks for the Song.

[@griff500grr]

As heard at 1.30, in attract mode it used to say "coins detected in pocket". How did it know?! It got many 10Ps of mine, but not as many as Defender, which routinely humiliated me - still does on the PSP. Ahh, the golden age..

[@Gunnerb52]

@Kanevick Hell no. I owned this and listened to it a lot. I put my tape recorder up to the speakers and recorded the album onto cassette and listened to this album sometimes when playing video games. Defenders was my favorite though.

[@artvankampen8993]

Thanks for posting! Beautiful!!!

[@rockerteen8300]

Why the fuck has some company not redone Berzerk as a fist person shooter, if it was done right like the artwork on the Atari 2600 cartridge or 2600 box art this game could be pretty fucking sweet.

[@stanleyjedrzejczyk2966]

@@kevinr278 I never liked Robotron as much as I liked Berzerk, as a young teenager in the 80's. The dual-joystick gameplay of Robotron was difficult to master and rather annoying at times!

[@cjnewman7550]

There technically is a remake

[@Justin-Hill-1987]

The beginning of this song sounds like an Air Supply song...

[@al0812]

Me acuerdo que escuche está canción por primera vez hace como 5 años (no recuerdo tan bien) y me la encontré en un comentario en la wiki del fandom de las chicas superpoderosas, bueno en realidad eran las del universo alterno (las powerpunk girls) ellas me gustaban mucho y una de ellas era mi fav,se llamaba Berserk como está canción por eso la relacionaron con la canción lol,me encanta esta canción,es tan mágica

[@justinw6658]

It's one of my favorite songs.

[@123456RaulMorales]

The Hurricane Otto made me remind to Evil Otto.........

[@Bondnh007]

I remember listing to this song in like 1st or 2nd grade on the original tape lol.

[@ThunderFist1978]

If Peter Burkowski hadn't died, he could tell you just how violent the robots are.

[@jeopardy60611]

This was done before there was digital sampling, so they probably had to take a cassette recorder to an arcade to record the audio from the Berzerk machine, then they would have to copy the soundbites on to the multitrack master reel. There was a Synclavier and Fairlight that cost $250K that did digital sampling, but that may not have come out until later. Then there was the less expensive Emulator II that was used on songs like "19" in 1985. It's so much easier now to line up soundbites because you do it all visually on a digital audio workstation.

[@dr.awkward9075]

Chicken, fight like a robot!

[@gull1265]

Kill the humanoid. INTRUDER ALERT! INTRUDER ALERT! _The humanoid must not escape._ got the humanoid! got the intruder!

[@GisherJohn24]

BERZERK BERZERK OVER YOU! BERZERK OVER YOU! BERZERK, BERZERK OVER YOU!

[@slickjackrabbit]

The fifth album I ever bought

[@ThunderFist1978]

I think they were playing at 3:01 personally.

[@bigguy130]

Wish they had done a followup song for the Frenzy videogame.

[@GisherJohn24]

You can download these songs at Itunes...

[@superkyeman]

1 person activated the Intruder Alert

[@ejsanch]

In fact, I still have it on casette somewhere.

[@charleshein8133]

COIN DETECTED IN POCKET!

[@SM_pai]

*5 seconds later* no more coin...

[@Hotshotter3000]

FEIGLING! KAMPF WIE EIN ROBOTER!

[@alexdubler6533]

I can play this to my old boss Bill Lumbergh after making me work 24/7!! *LOL*

[@ThunderFist1978]

Isn't the CD a re-recording? I've got a cassette myself, and I want to record it on CD before anything happens to it.

[@tabe8850]

DJCandyManMike: vinyl for me. I got it for Xmas in 1982

[@stanleyjedrzejczyk2966]

@@tabe8850 Got my LP version in Jan.'82 at age 13. Sucks being old!

[@justinw6658]

The vinyl record has the original recording of the song. The CD 📀 remake isn't the same.

[@jasinjoaquin]

sadly, this was the first LP i ever bought! haha

[@ThunderFist1978]

Jeff Dailey, Peter Burkowski, and Edward Clark Jr. disliked this song.

[@ARaider510]

Jeff did well making all those weebs angry

[@ThunderFist1978]

Jeff who? He was likely just an urban legend.

[@gundamdetractor337]

they must be kidding. no one can go berzerk with this happy carebears-style song. only if he purposely trying to make ppl mad.

[@wreckitjax]

Lmfao!! It was the 80s. It was innocent times.

[@gundamdetractor337]

@@wreckitjax idk whats the point stating it but... anyway...

[@donnafran]

Berzerk

[@scott5.011]

With feeling

[@123456RaulMorales]

To ejsanch and destr100 :how can I get the album,cassette or CD Buckner & Garcia"Pac-Man Fever"?

[@nasserharbi7839]

bonfireside chat

[@beans909irl]

Hilarious comment given what Gary & Kole just released, and why I'm here

[@123456RaulMorales]

@kablamman2007 And how can you make a CD from Buckner and Garcia for me?Do I need to pay it if necessary and how much does it cost if I need to pay for it?And do I need to give you my address to have it delivered?

[@charleshein8133]

XD :D XD

[@charleshein8133]

***** :(

[@i-a-g-r-e-e-----f-----jo--b]

That song does not match the violence of the robots one bit. I was wondering if it was a fan mash up but I guess the song just sucks. I thought Pac Man Fever was good in the day and never heard Berzerk, now I know why.

[@shaneuglem490]

Good album tho right? Not all dongs can be good....

[@cjnewman7550]

Wrong opinion mate