Video game related song - "Video Kid" by Klymaxx

Date: 5 Feb 2003 07:10:26 -0800
Newsgroups: rec.games.video.arcade.collecting
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A few days ago, I grabbed some mint conditions 45s at a local book
store… one record was the 1984 Top 10 hit by Klymaxx… "I Miss you"… it
was a lite r&b love ballad. Anyway, the b-side was a song I had always
heard about, but had never heard… "Video Kid".
I need to find the lyrics somewhere, because the lyrics are sung
rather quickly (but not rapped, mind you), but my suspicions were
correct… it is a song about a guy that plays video games, and the girl
that has a crush on him…
It's mid 80's pop camp, but you can't help but smile when you hear
lyrics like… "I want him to put a quarter in MY slot"… (she does not
mention handling his joystick, from what I could tell though…)
Another lyric clearly mentions Defender and Centipede by name…
In between the choruses and when the lyrics pick up again, we are
treated to actual arcade sounds, the most obvious being Galaga (after
the first chorus) and Frogger (in the last 30 seconds of the tune),
but there are some fainter ones in the background that get a little
drowned out…
It's a cute listen if you haven't heard it already…