"Meet Tim Crist, a man obsessed with Pac-Man." - Fred Willard, 2004 (R.I.P.)

Hi. I like Pac-Man, and because of that Fred Willard said my name on VH-1 once and I was more recently in an article for the Smithsonian to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the great yellow semi-circle of life. So if you're interested in Fred Willard saying your name on VH-1 and being in an article for the Smithsonian, I highly recommend liking Pac-Man. It's not hard, because Pac-Man is neat.

Anyway, long story mid-length, back in the proverbial "day" I used to participate in a Pac-Man chat forum called "Pac-Chat" (because, as noted, I like Pac-Man.) One dude named "Pac-Manic" (a.k.a. Jeff Carter) wrote some nonsensical lyrics in a post starting with "[something] a yellow guy? Pac-Man! Do he eating lots of dots? Pac-Man!" I decided that this needed to be a real song. When I got around to actually endeavoring to make this happen, I somehow couldn't find all the stuff Mr. Manic had originally written, so I took what I could remember, came up with a bunch of my own thingies, and combined these with ideas from a similarly-nonsensical post I'd made describing the gameplay ("The best way to Pac-Man is to use the game!" etc.) to create "Pac-Man Is Naked And So Should You," which was released in 2001.

After the aforementioned Smithsonian thing ran this year, I realized I hadn't done anything to properly commemorate the 40th birthday of he who makes our enemies blue and edible and guides us through the maze of life, so I decided to redo this here song. Nobody told me not to, so here it is. FUN FACT: The square-wavey synth sound I use throughout this is actually a pitch-manipulated single sampled note from the intro music of the Pac-Man arcade game. Because I am an ARTIST. So there.

This is only the beginning of Worm Quartet's tribute to Pac-Man's 40th birthday. Stay tuned.

Vocals, keys, programming, and production by Shoebox
Mastered for The FuMP by Devo Spice
Lyrics by Shoebox and Jeff Carter / Musics by Shoebox