digdug2
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It was brought to trial later, yeah, and he was found not guilty on 14 counts. Fourteen! If they had something to pin on him, they absolutely would have on at least one of those counts.
Michael Jackson Moonwalker Arcade, forgotten about gem?
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It was brought to trial later, yeah, and he was found not guilty on 14 counts. Fourteen! If they had something to pin on him, they absolutely would have on at least one of those counts.
VulcanRaven
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The movie this game is based on is interesting. The story isn't very good but its great to see music videos and this performance in HD:
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Stafford
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Careful now, next thing theyyre gonna say....OJ was found not guilty too. Lmfao. It's the usual.
Some people can actually listen to the music while believing he did it. I could never. Because the man is his music, the message was him. Heal the world, the message in it is so clear and heartfelt. If I believed someone was an abuser I could not listen to the music ever again, just impossible. The music is so personal.
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Krathoon
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I just got this on Amazon. It includes a dvd with some of his music videos. Thriller is such a classic album. I hope it has the liner notes that were with the original album. Probably not.
It is actually worth having a vinyl copy.
Michael Jackson - Thriller (25th Anniversary Edition) - Amazon.com Music
Michael Jackson - Thriller (25th Anniversary Edition) - Amazon.com Music
www.amazon.com
It is actually worth having a vinyl copy.
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Werewolf Jones
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Played it at MAGfest 2019 in one sitting. Amazing sprite work but the game is kind of a chore to sit through after a while unfortunately.
VulcanRaven
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They released 40th anniversary version last year:
Michael Jackson - Thriller 40th Anniversary - Amazon.com Music
Michael Jackson - Thriller 40th Anniversary - Amazon.com Music
www.amazon.com
Puscifer
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You should really put any bias aside and look into it. That dude had young boys locked away for days/weeks in his bedroom.
One of the original families took a payout to avoid going to court because Jackson's craziest fan were vandalizing and shooting at their fucking house. Look I like Jacksons music, but there's no denying even if he never went full blown penetration the fact of the matter is he forced young boys to suck his dick.
How can you say he didn't do anything to those children when one of them drew a photo of his penis so actually his lawyer said pay the accusers? No one's seen this drawing except Jackson's lawyer, the prosecutor and judge and it isn't the one floating around the Internet.
They used his star power to his the fact he did it, it's not unique that power helps you escape consequences so why are people having such an issue with the idea that maybe, just maybe, one of the richest entertainers in the world was hiding things?;
Stafford
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You are so incredibly wrong, about literally everything. Why don't you go and watch Square One? It covers the Chandler family. That family has a whole history of lying and I suggest you go watch it. You talk about fans shooting up their house, right. That's likely completely made up by either you or some other liar because I've never ever heard of that story before.
Nothing was stopping them at all. In fact they could have gone on with the criminal trial but never did. Research! Facts and evidence please. As for that description of his genitals, right. If that description had matched a whole lot more would have happened to MJ, I would think you would realize this. And the DA Tom Sneddon did all he could to avoid having the drawing be shown at the trial.
Think on that.
Or don't.
You probably won't because it's clear you are just making shit up as you go along. You have no clue, that's what is really clear here. But if you were to watch what I suggest you to watch,....you will be amazed about how wrong you were. You'll get info on that family you had no idea about.
But really, if we're gonna go ahead and take the Chandler family seriously I'm just done. We're dealing with epic levels of stupidity then.
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Krathoon
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I might have to get that one too. It has a bunch of unreleased songs.
havoc00
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I wish he would have worked with more hip hop artists in the mid 90s, I know he didnt have to because he was so huge at that point but some great music could have came from that
Stafford
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He got close to working with 2Pac.
But Pac had heard MJ wasn't gonna be in the studio and decided against going. A shame, could have been epic. Biggie's verses were awesome.
RAIDEN1
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On a separate note, it was only years after his death did I find out that he had a bitter rivalry with Prince....and the man himself was approached to be in the BAD video before Wesley Snipes took over
Stafford
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Yep. But it wasn't as negative and serious as the media tried to make it look like. In fact they had been chilling at some point with another friend, just laughing it up, no rivalry nothing.
When the news came that Michael had died, Prince was in rehearsal and then canceled all rehearsals, sent the band home, and for days locked himself in his bedroom and wouldn't come out and really didn't talk to people.
When both were still alive he had given Michael the advice to keep This is It small, like a unplugged show. Just sit down on a chair and sing. I honestly wish MJ had done this, a full on live unplugged show? Shiiiieeeet. But that was never going to happen, the man was born for dancing.
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VulcanRaven
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The 25th anniversary edition has one of my favorite songs For All Time. I don't know why it was included because its not from Thriller sessions but I'm glad it was. It was recorded in 1990.
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Brock2621
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What the…. This is WILD! Had no idea this existed!
ShadyAcshuns
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VulcanRaven
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Its directed by Francis Ford Coppola and produced by George Lucas.
Stafford
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Been listening to the man's music ever since my 5th or so, I've turned 41 today. Sometimes I still discover new things in his lyrics. For example I always thought Wanna be startin something was a happy uptempo track and that's about it. I clearly never fully paid attention to the lyrics. Because it's the opposite of happy...
And a whole lot more in that song. The mayor in the Ghosts short video, that's obviously Michael in a body suit and make up. But he was a key person in the investigation of Emmett Till's murder.
This man knew what he was doing. But I had no idea for so many years.
And a whole lot more in that song. The mayor in the Ghosts short video, that's obviously Michael in a body suit and make up. But he was a key person in the investigation of Emmett Till's murder.
This man knew what he was doing. But I had no idea for so many years.
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Krathoon
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I am glad to have introduced people to the weird ass movie, Captain EO.
CamHostage
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Funny that there are Moonwaker Genesis/MD people and then there are Moonwalker Arcade people, and they don't seem to meet in any middle...
I'm way more a Moonwalker Arcade person. 3P with three Michaels, quarter-munching gameplay that was still fair enough to master and do okay at with a couple quarters, big graphics, the tunes, and a monkey that turns you into a laser-shooting robot... can't be beat. It was weird though that you were mostly walking backwards and kind of having to think about your shots in reverse. (Not really, it followed the joystick, but your firepower charge was on the opposite side as you moonwalked around stages, so you had to think of it firing in the opposite direction of the charge.)
(*The only thing I remember really from the Genesis game when the super-attack made everybody dance, the Smooth Criminal Lean looked real cool in a 2D platformer. )
I'm way more a Moonwalker Arcade person. 3P with three Michaels, quarter-munching gameplay that was still fair enough to master and do okay at with a couple quarters, big graphics, the tunes, and a monkey that turns you into a laser-shooting robot... can't be beat. It was weird though that you were mostly walking backwards and kind of having to think about your shots in reverse. (Not really, it followed the joystick, but your firepower charge was on the opposite side as you moonwalked around stages, so you had to think of it firing in the opposite direction of the charge.)
(*The only thing I remember really from the Genesis game when the super-attack made everybody dance, the Smooth Criminal Lean looked real cool in a 2D platformer. )
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DetectiveBananas
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Barely remember the arcade version except it was at Disneyland when I went as a kid. Parents weren't interested in waiting around for me to play some arcade games so we walked through it without getting to play anything 
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The Genesis version seemed interesting but never got to play it until later in life. Wasn't too shabby from what I recall.
The MJ legacy is such a weird concept that you probably couldn't make this stuff up. Biggest celebrity on Earth for years and then the 90's hit and perceptions changed once the accusations came.
I would say back then it felt like 65-70% of people I knew thought he was guilty and so the people who still liked his music wouldn't listen to it in front of other people or admit they still liked him.
I think I had his Dangerous CD when it came out and listened to it a good amount but shifted towards rock/alternative more as the 90's progressed.
.The Genesis version seemed interesting but never got to play it until later in life. Wasn't too shabby from what I recall.
The MJ legacy is such a weird concept that you probably couldn't make this stuff up. Biggest celebrity on Earth for years and then the 90's hit and perceptions changed once the accusations came.
I would say back then it felt like 65-70% of people I knew thought he was guilty and so the people who still liked his music wouldn't listen to it in front of other people or admit they still liked him.
I think I had his Dangerous CD when it came out and listened to it a good amount but shifted towards rock/alternative more as the 90's progressed.
VulcanRaven
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totally different game
fairly strange too, transform into robots and jets and stuff
Up there in sega odd but no where near that weird 3 player segasonic arcade game or that 32x based art tool console thing in the sega , man sega sure would ever crazy idea popped into peoples heads
CamHostage
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Yeah, before looking this up again after all these years, I was thinking, "Wait, wasn't it weird that three different players were all just Michael Jackson in a different color scheme?", but when I look at the screen, they feel like 3 different eras of MJ (even though it's just a pallet swap) and so it's clear that your MJ isn't the same as mine.
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Puscifer
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LOL WHAT, I'm going to focus on this above all because their lawyers did everything they could to avoid it going to trial
New look at dark accusations
Details you never heard back then from a detective who headed up the Jackson investigation, speaking out for the first time.
www.nbcnews.com
Dworin says one critical piece of corroborating evidence was found not in Michael Jackson's home, but on Michael Jackson's body: an intimate description that the young boy gave police.
Dworin: "We had served a search warrant to photograph Michael Jackson. Those photographs corroborated the description that the boy gave us regarding Michael Jackson's genitals."
Mankiewicz: "The boy was able to describe discolorations of Jackson's skin?"
Dworin: "Yes."
Mankiewicz: "On his genitals, accurately."
Dworin: "Very much so."
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Further evidence, from the horses mouth as submitted by Tom Sneddon.
5. I have reviewed the statements made by Jordan Chandler in his interview on December 1, 1993, I have examined the drawing made by Jordan Chandler at Detective Fernffino's request and the photographs taken of Defendant's genitalia. The photographs reveal a mark on the right side of the Defendant's penis at about the same relative location as the dark blemish located by Jordan Chandler on his drawing of Defendant's erect penis. I believe the discoloration Chandler identified in his drawing was not something he could or would have guessed about, or could have seen accidentally. I believe Chandler's graphic representation of the discolored area on Defendant's penis is substantially corroborated by the photographs taken by Santa Barbara Sheriff's detectives at a later time.
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Understand had it gone to trial, IT WOULD have been shown and so far the only people who've seen the child's drawing (officially at least) are Jackson's lawyers, Sneddon and the Judge overseeing the case afterwards. It was after this he settled for 15 million dollars. The investigation was so worried about the cult of personality around Jackson they were digging for even more evidence because they knew the uphill battle they had coming their way, but this photo alone put the fear of god into his defense team.
His lawyers referred to it as "The 300 pound gorilla" and clearly implied he was abusing children and the only way to win was hush money.
And I hate having to say this but often the ONLY way to see justice with powerful people who can avoid jail time IS FINANCIALLY. If they wanted the money so bad why would they sign a settlement only meant to go to Jordan Chandler when he's an adult? The parents would have NO rights to this money, it's all Jordan's and NO ONE ELSE HAS RIGHTS TO IT. And if you don't believe me, feel free to read the entire leaked settlement document, with MJ's own signature.
The timeline for the Dad is also ridiculous, he only sought to get cash after the fact they likely already expended thousands of dollars going after him in legal fees, only for the actual payout to be 5 years away and only going to the child, as it rightly should. In fact, from what I remember Jordan wanted to escape the entire ordeal that he emancipated himself and basically vanished off the face of the earth and I couldn't be anything but happy for him.
Is the Dad a nutjob? Yep. Does that make MJ innocent? Abso-fucking-lutely NOT.
I'll even throw you a hypothetical, in the even this was all Blackmail. That evidence of Blackmail was so problematic it yielded an 8 figure pay-out because the evidence of said Blackmail was that damning. Blackmail only works when the evidence is damaging.
Also, I just want to throw this out there but after his death the FBI found some books called The Boy: A Photographic Essay and another called "Boys will be Boys" were found in his home in a locked cabinet. Those books are categorized as a 6 on the COPINE scale, meaning they're innapopriate images of minors bordering on pornography. If he had nothing to hide they wouldn't behind sealed and locked cabinets, right?
COPINE scale - Wikipedia
What more evidence do you want?
The 800+ 1-on-1 sleepovers?
The patterns of befriending young children till they show signs of puberty?
The video where his sister says the parents were paying off multiple other families?
The full context of Wade Robinsons "master of deception" quote, where the reality is that he was meaning how Michael taught him how to lie about it?
Man the more I type the more I realize I probably shouldn't listen his shit at all...
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The Pleasure
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Is his attack just finger blasting everyone? No wonder women love him so much.
Dirk Benedict
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This game was the shit! I dumped many quarters into this one. Around the time, I was also dumping quarters into Double Dragon, Bad Dudes, Terminator, Bubble Bobble.
Retro Arcade hangouts were the shit and the drama was priceless.
Retro Arcade hangouts were the shit and the drama was priceless.
Dev1lXYZ
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Moonwalker was a graphical showpiece at the time, but the gameplay grows stale too quickly. As others have stated, the Genesis game is actually the better of the two. I had a good time explaining the plot to my kids as I played through the game. Bubbles sitting on his shoulder and pointing out the last child's location really creeped them out. 
The graveyard level doesn't play the Thriller track, because of rights issues, unfortunately.
The graveyard level doesn't play the Thriller track, because of rights issues, unfortunately.
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Deputy Moonman
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I used to play the arcade version at Godfathers Pizza way back in the day.
A.Romero
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I don't know if MJ did what they say he did but there is an important difference with OJ's case: The later did go to trial and while the jury did declare him non guilty, pretty much everyone believes he did it.
MJ never went to court. Maybe he paid his way out of it or maybe they knew they didn't have enough to fight against MJ's lawyers.
I find it interesting that the allegations are from several years ago and it seems he never did it again or learn how to do it more carefully... Or you know, just never did it in the first place.
Back on topic: I was a big fan of the arcade game. I was pretty young back then and couldn't find the movie so never watched it but I sure as hell wanted to! I watched a few years back and while I found it to be pretty bad I'm pretty sure I would have had enjoyed it as a kid. The game was pretty cool. It would be interesting for a remaster to exist.
Putonahappyface
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VulcanRaven
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Jackson went to trial in 2005 but was found not guilty.
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Mephisto40
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Great arcade game, it's an absolute coin muncher towards the end of the game though
John Wick
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Great game. Me and my mate got so good at it we could complete the game in 1 credit. Still love the music to this game.