Now go play Moonwalker

June 30, 2005 8:55 AM

Michael Jackson is guilty 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)
posted by BlackLeotardFront (24 comments total)

classic.
posted by stbalbach at 9:03 AM on June 30, 2005

He did have an official appearance as "Space Michael" in the excellent Space Channel 5 (PS2).
posted by Aknaton at 9:18 AM on June 30, 2005

Sod Space Channel 5. Rescue the children!
posted by Pretty_Generic at 9:23 AM on June 30, 2005

I love how he kicks Princess Toadstool in the motherfucking face at the end.
posted by Pretty_Generic at 9:26 AM on June 30, 2005

My favorite part was when he became two flippers in the pinball machine. Awesome.
posted by Dr. Wu at 9:29 AM on June 30, 2005

Seriously hot.
posted by interrupt at 10:18 AM on June 30, 2005

Did he punch Bowser in the butt?
posted by coach_mcguirk at 10:31 AM on June 30, 2005

Monkey steals the peaches.
posted by interrupt at 10:36 AM on June 30, 2005

That whole Bowser-in-the-Butt thing is a juvenile Japanese game called Kancho.
posted by mystyk at 10:53 AM on June 30, 2005

coach_mcguirk, I'm fairly certain that was a kancho. On preview, dammit mystyk!
posted by sysinfo at 10:56 AM on June 30, 2005

Awesome.
posted by elderling at 11:01 AM on June 30, 2005

Not to be pedantic, but after MJ died, he would have been on board 1-4.
posted by drezdn at 11:02 AM on June 30, 2005

This is way better.
posted by Dr_Octavius at 11:31 AM on June 30, 2005

"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?
posted by majick at 2:02 PM on June 30, 2005

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.
posted by blacklite at 3:08 PM on June 30, 2005

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.
posted by ktoad at 3:28 PM on June 30, 2005

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.
posted by ktoad at 3:29 PM on June 30, 2005

majick: Moonwalker (the game this came from) was for Sega Genesis - a 16 bit game.
posted by absalom at 3:29 PM on June 30, 2005

But every game depicted therein is 8-bit. Hence the confusion.
posted by avriette at 3:33 PM on June 30, 2005

That's why he was whupping the other characters' booties. He had twice the bits.

Also, wasn't Moonwalker also for SNES?
posted by BlackLeotardFront at 6:29 PM on June 30, 2005

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.
posted by themadjuggler at 7:12 PM on June 30, 2005

Cool.
posted by bardic at 9:42 PM on June 30, 2005

That was seriously disturbing. I'm going to have nightmares about Michael Jackson Tetris now.
posted by loquacious at 1:47 AM on July 1, 2005

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.
posted by kevspace at 11:00 AM on July 1, 2005