Sure plays a mean pinball: Songs about video games (opens in new tab)

A thing since the late seventies, video games rank with cars, girls, and cigarettes as distractions for young men and women. This list does not encompass garbage like Buckner and Garcia’s “Pac-Man Fever,” the equivalent of nacho cheese hardening under braces; rather, I’m interested in sounds, responses, and adjustments to new media. Lana Del Rey’s […]