The Moonwalker Is Dead, Please Insert Another Coin
Thursday 25 June 2009 @ 10:03 pm | By Ivan 'Nahu' Lozano 12 Comments
You’ve heard it, you’ve seen it mentioned everywhere on the internet, with your friends, your mom, your grandma and even that nice hobo down the street. Michael Jackson is dead. Now you’ve heard it here too.
Now, child abuse accusations aside Michael was a plastic surgery addict. Ok, ok. Child abuse accusations and bad nose jobs aside Michael was a pretty creepy man. Lets try that again, shall we? Child abuse accusations, bad nose jobs and creepiness aside Michael Jackson was a legendary musician and performer that shaped a great part of pop culture for nearly two decades. Ah there we go that sounded better.
He not only brought us great music but also taught a racism-divided world that color was not an issue and that in fact you could change colors yourself, provided you had millions of dollars and an adventurous doctor.
But that’s not why I want to remember Michael today, no sir, after all we’re all about games and anime. So I want to talk about that other great thing Michael gave us: Moonwalker, The Game.
Moonwalker was one of the most iconic arcade games of my childhood and certainly that of many others. This game had it all! You played a god-like pop icon in a dapper white suit dancing around shooting magic beams at gangsters, robots AND zombies. Sounds pretty good right? You’re damn right its good but it gets better!
You run around beating grownups so you can rescue little children! That’s just so wrong in retrospective… and there’s more! If you happen to find Bubbles, MJ’s pet chimpanzee, during a level you transformed into a freaking mecha Michael Jackson, shooting lasers and missiles at your foes.
Man, and to think most games nowadays all involve skinhead space marines and their homoerotic military adventures in 27 billion shades of brown. Those were the golden days of gaming my friends. Such a ludicrous game concept would never see the light of day in this age. So instead of the child abuse, plastic surgery, racial transmutation and all around creepiness, lets remember Michael Jackson for this, one of the greatest most iconic arcade games of the 90’s. Oh yeah and I guess his songs were ok too.
If you want to relive the adventures or never got around to playing this game here’s a link to download the Moonwalker arcade ROM and an emulator. RIP MJ.
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Ivan 'Nahu' Lozano
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i fed so many quarters to the arcade version of this game….
the console ports never did the game justice
rest in peace M.J.
the world will remember ye for all yer creepiness music and lulz…
I am deeply saddened by this.
I hadn’t heard this from EVERY OTHER THING ON THE INTERNET
thx.
Please don’t waste your times with popular pop culture
Popular pop culture eh?
Do you work on the Department of Redundancy Dept. by any chance?
We’ll waste our ‘times’ in whatever way we see fit. Please don’t let us stop you if we’re not to your liking!
a great example this bloke… wasting his time in trying to tell us how not to waste ours xD
Frustrated because I heard thriller for the billionth time and I lost my mind
‘Cause this is thriller, thriller night
There ain’t no second chance against the thing with forty eyes, girl
Thriller, thriller night
You’re fighting for your life inside a killer, thriller tonight
I downloaded the game to play it again. I finished it in the emu at a whooping 40 minutes run. Maybe i was a tad slow but i liked mashing away at all the almost endless rounds of enemies. Notice that you don’t “kill” the baddies, you bounce them off the screen :D
I feel so young, for I’ve never heard of this game’s existence.
R.I.P., M.J.
OMG seriously?! You have now convinced me to begin work on a retro games piece. Perhaps underdog titles of the 8-bit era..?
I KNOW! I’m only 16, man. I had a SEGA console, and I really never got to getting that game. lol!
Yes, please. A retro games piece is needed for the fledglings.
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