Comments on: Now go play Moonwalker

Now go play Moonwalker

BlackLeotardFront — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 08:55:24 -0800

of being totally excellent in this fantastic whirlwind tour of NES games (a la Sega Fantasy VI); MJ herein imposes his 16-bit self on a huge amount of games including but not limited to Megaman, Kung Fu, Ice Climber, Super Mario Brothers 1 and 3, Dragon Warrior, Arkanoid, Track and Field, Spelunker, Final Fantasy and more. If you know the Japanese language + games, clue us in. (Flash and hardcore midi dance music warning)

By: stbalbach

stbalbach — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 09:03:26 -0800

classic.

By: Aknaton

Aknaton — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 09:18:06 -0800

He did have an official appearance as "Space Michael" in the excellent Space Channel 5 (PS2).

By: Pretty_Generic

Pretty_Generic — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 09:23:08 -0800

Sod Space Channel 5. Rescue the children!

By: Pretty_Generic

Pretty_Generic — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 09:26:47 -0800

I love how he kicks Princess Toadstool in the motherfucking face at the end.

By: Dr. Wu

Dr. Wu — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 09:29:18 -0800

My favorite part was when he became two flippers in the pinball machine. Awesome.

By: interrupt

interrupt — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 10:18:15 -0800

Seriously hot.

By: coach_mcguirk

coach_mcguirk — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 10:31:28 -0800

Did he punch Bowser in the butt?

By: interrupt

interrupt — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 10:36:40 -0800

Monkey steals the peaches.

By: mystyk

mystyk — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 10:53:48 -0800

That whole Bowser-in-the-Butt thing is a juvenile Japanese game called Kancho.

By: sysinfo

sysinfo — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 10:56:26 -0800

coach_mcguirk, I'm fairly certain that was a kancho. On preview, dammit mystyk!

By: elderling

elderling — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 11:01:01 -0800

Awesome.

By: drezdn

drezdn — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 11:02:27 -0800

Not to be pedantic, but after MJ died, he would have been on board 1-4.

By: Dr_Octavius

Dr_Octavius — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 11:31:28 -0800

This is way better.

By: majick

majick — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 14:02:20 -0800

"MJ herein imposes his 16-bit self..." Uh, wouldn't that be an 8-bit self? Or have I suddenly grossly underestimated the Famicom / NES after all these years?

By: blacklite

blacklite — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 15:08:06 -0800

That was awesome, Octavius. But I still wish I had a list of all the games in the crazy japanese one. I think I want to try some of them.

By: ktoad

ktoad — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 15:28:21 -0800

That was funny but I think I got a better deal by not actually listening to it. I had the Psychedelic Furs playing instead and couldn't be bothered to switch the audio over to hear the Eurotechno.

By: ktoad

ktoad — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 15:29:17 -0800

Uh, wouldn't that be an 8-bit self? Or have I suddenly grossly underestimated the Famicom / NES after all these years? NES was indeed 8-bit, but this version of MJ is from the 16-bit Sega Genesis system.

By: absalom

absalom — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 15:29:29 -0800

majick: Moonwalker (the game this came from) was for Sega Genesis - a 16 bit game.

By: avriette

avriette — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 15:33:26 -0800

But every game depicted therein is 8-bit. Hence the confusion.

By: BlackLeotardFront

BlackLeotardFront — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 18:29:11 -0800

That's why he was whupping the other characters' booties. He had twice the bits. Also, wasn't Moonwalker also for SNES?

By: themadjuggler

themadjuggler — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 19:12:19 -0800

Some games referenced not mentioned in the FPP: Dragon Warrior II, Yoshi, track and field, Tetris, Milon's Secret Castle (Bonus Level), Bionic Commando, Mega Man III (Select Screen), Balloon Kid, Mega Man 2 (Title Screen), Pinball, Bomberman, Excitebike, Final Fantasy II (Japanese), MLB This guy is good. BlackLeotardFront: Moonwalker was released for the Genesis the Sega Master System, and in arcades. Nintendo tended to stay away from the creepier games at the beginning.

By: bardic

bardic — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 21:42:56 -0800

Cool.

By: loquacious

loquacious — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 01:47:31 -0800

That was seriously disturbing. I'm going to have nightmares about Michael Jackson Tetris now.

By: kevspace

kevspace — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 11:00:10 -0800

BlackLeotardFront: There was no SNES version of Moonwalker (it was developed by Sega), but there was an arcade version that is quite different from the Genesis version, aside from also vaguely following the plot of the "Moonwalker" video.