![]() ![]() It also features three-player simultaneously play, with all three players being MJ, of course. The arcade game was an isometric action game with MJ attacking with magic rather than kicks and punches. The more famous Moonwalker games, however, were the ones done by Sega for the arcade, Master System, and Genesis. The first was the version that was released on various gaming computers in 1989, featuring four levels each with completely different gameplay: top-down maze, top-down motorcycle racing, side-scrolling action, and on-rails shooter. There were a few games based on the 1988 “film” Moonwalker – which was basically just some of the videos from the “Bad” album with a crazy narrative linking them together. Michael Jackson’s Moonwalker (1989-1990, various) In that game, you had to guide each band member back to their respective instruments, which are located on other planets because why not? Another interesting technical feature of the Journey arcade cabinet was that it played an excerpt of the band’s song “Separate Ways (World’s Apart)” – ah, so that’s the reason for the planet-hopping – via an actual cassette player housed within the cabinet. Unlike that game, in which it is impossible to discern which member of the band your generic stick-figure avatar is supposed to be, the following year’s simply-titled Journey for arcades (pictured above) featured actual digitized photos of the band members’ faces, which was pretty revolutionary for its time. First, there was Journey Escape for the 2600, the title of which served double-meaning as a reference to their album – “Escape” – of the previous year and also the objective of the game: to escape from (and I’m not making this up, this is all in the manual) shifty-eyed promoters and love-crazed groupies. Feel free to tell us any big ones that we missed!Īpparently one video game wasn’t enough to contain the epic stadium rock band Journey. This is by no means a comprehensive list, and while we did do a few cameos that we found to be noteworthy, for the most part it’s a list of games that aren’t “music games” ( Guitar Hero et al) but prominently feature musicians in some way. Seeing as how we lost two of the people in this feature very recently, it seemed like a good time to do it.
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