I remember the first time I ever played this game, which was on a summer trip to Las Vegas with my dad, mom and my sister. By far, the best part of the game was Michael's screen-filling dance numbers, which forced every baddie on screen to dance along and get rocked by magic explosions. Michael beat down bad guys with flashy dance moves straight from his "Billie Jean" and "Smooth Criminal" steps, and he could even transform into a robotic, super version of himself when things got dangerous.
As crazy as the premise sounded, Moonwalker had style to match the wacky theme. Played from a slanted, top-down perspective, this beat-'em-up tasked MJ with taking out gangsters and hitmen in his quest to save his kid friends from drug lord "Mr.
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Every time I try to describe the movie that the game is based on, the most common phrase I use is "Michael Jackson turns into a giant robot/spaceship and kills Joe Pesci." Unlike the console and computer versions, which suffered from poor level design and weird gameplay, the arcade version was a true diamond in the rough. #1: Michael Jackson's Moonwalker By leaps and bounds, ] was one of the slickest arcade games to hit gamers in 1990. Weird! (Oh, did we mention that in Sega's Sonic and the Secret Rings, you can actually do the Moonwalk by tilting back on the Wii Remote?) He's rumored to have been originally set to compose for that classic Genesis title. Or, maybe Sonic 3's theme came from Michael himself. You can literally listen to the two songs ] by ] and see where MJ's inspiration came from.
#3: Sonic The Hedgehog 3 (Ending)/Sonic and the Secret Rings (Moonwalk) ] is one of Michael Jackson's latest and greatest singles, but what some people don't know is that it's rumored to have originated from the soundtrack of ], specifically the ending theme in the game's finale.