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October 12, 2015
http://www.nowgamer.com/has-a-long-lost-michael-jackson-game-been-discovered/
Previously undiscovered games are turning up all the time, and it seemed that we might have another on our hands as a forum user claimed to have found an incredibly rare Mega-CD game, Advanced Star Fighter Training. All over the cover was the “King Of Pop” himself, Michael Jackson.
The game seemed to be a follow-on from Jackson’s appearance in a Sega flight simulator video, Scramble Training. The video had been produced at a time when the company had a good working relationship with the singer, who was also working on music for Sonic 3. However, when a highly publicised child abuse scandal involving the singer came to light, the simulator video and Jackson’s involvement in Sonic 3 were both quietly binned.
(Michael Jackson in Scramble Training is a piece of arcade software for the AS-1 motion simulator. It was first released in 1993, and sees Michael Jackson pilot a space ship in a training excercise.
Scramble Training is a very rare attraction. Shortly after release Sega quietly began to replace it with other AS-1 software, due to harmful allegations regarding the singer breaking out around this period. Only a handful of off-screen videos have survived.
This page was last modified on 6 June 2012, at 12:26.)
It’s always worth exercising a degree of caution over such discoveries though – particularly when someone shows a seemingly complete and sealed copy of a game that Sega itself doesn’t acknowledge. With no footage, telltale signs of photo editing and a cover that showed a dubious grasp of Japanese, this apparent discovery has been deemed a fake. Darn, and indeed blast. Still, here’s a video of that simulator ride.
<iframe width="800" height="450" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/E-uIFgj3GUI" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
http://www.nowgamer.com/has-a-long-lost-michael-jackson-game-been-discovered/
Previously undiscovered games are turning up all the time, and it seemed that we might have another on our hands as a forum user claimed to have found an incredibly rare Mega-CD game, Advanced Star Fighter Training. All over the cover was the “King Of Pop” himself, Michael Jackson.
The game seemed to be a follow-on from Jackson’s appearance in a Sega flight simulator video, Scramble Training. The video had been produced at a time when the company had a good working relationship with the singer, who was also working on music for Sonic 3. However, when a highly publicised child abuse scandal involving the singer came to light, the simulator video and Jackson’s involvement in Sonic 3 were both quietly binned.
(Michael Jackson in Scramble Training is a piece of arcade software for the AS-1 motion simulator. It was first released in 1993, and sees Michael Jackson pilot a space ship in a training excercise.
Scramble Training is a very rare attraction. Shortly after release Sega quietly began to replace it with other AS-1 software, due to harmful allegations regarding the singer breaking out around this period. Only a handful of off-screen videos have survived.
This page was last modified on 6 June 2012, at 12:26.)
It’s always worth exercising a degree of caution over such discoveries though – particularly when someone shows a seemingly complete and sealed copy of a game that Sega itself doesn’t acknowledge. With no footage, telltale signs of photo editing and a cover that showed a dubious grasp of Japanese, this apparent discovery has been deemed a fake. Darn, and indeed blast. Still, here’s a video of that simulator ride.
<iframe width="800" height="450" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/E-uIFgj3GUI" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>