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Today's Track is Eat'em Up! from Ridge Racer 4

Well, today May 21st marks the 30th anniversary of one of the greatest game franchises of them all, Pac-Man.  And here on Orange Lounge Radio would like to pay tribute to Namco's oldest franchise and probably most popular game.  There are a lot of Pac-Man games, some retain the original aspect of the original but give it new twists, like Pac-Man C.E. or the upcoming Battle Royale; but there are other games that take Pac-Man to whole new adventures, like the Pac-Man World series or Pac-Man Rally.  Pac-Man has also appeared on many of Namco's other franchises, like Klonoa or Ridge Racer, which is the soundtrack featured today.

This song is pretty reminiscent of old-school Pac-Man.  While the original arcade didn't feature a compeling soundtrack, pretty much everyone remembers the cut-scene music from the arcade games, which is what this song samples.  Almost all Ridge Racer soundtracks in the series feature at least one song or reference to Pac-Man, which makes the Ridge Racer series even cooler than it is.

So today, go play some Pac-Man while listening to this song, I heard some site called Google has it's own version of the game on their main page, or go download Pac-Man C.E. on iPhone or XBLA, it's pretty good.

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Until next time, keep on eatin'!