My tribute to Michaeel Jackson

If you listened to Friday's show, you know that we decided to put Michael Jackson songs in all of the imaging (that's fancy radio talk for opens, rejoins, and outbeds). Many rock or Top 40 stations have followed suit, paying their own tributesd to the King of Pop.

But I haven't heard a single person mention one of Jackson's greatest contributions to the world:
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Michael Jackson's Moonwalker for Sega Genesis...


I rented this game once from Video World after playing the arcade version at FYE at the Trumbull Mall when I was about 12. The plot pretty much made zero sense. In an ironic twist, the object of the game is actually for Michael Jackson to save kidnapped children instead of... well, you know. Jackson attacks his foes via "magical" powers - including killing them through his sick dance moves - instead of actual physical force. Considering it wasn't likely that Jackson could ever beat another human being up, at least the game's producers made it semi-realistic.

Michael Jackson's Moonwalker may have earned the distinction of being one of the worst ideas for a video game ever, but it's also one of the best really, really bad games ever (alongside NBA All-Star Challenge, Bill Laimbeer's Combat Basketball, and the arcade version of Double Dribble).