Well, Let's talk about MJ...man it seems anyone with the initials MJ back in the day practically ruled the world, Michael Jackson, Michael Jordan (hell they even did a music vid-er I mean "short film" as Jackson preferred to call it together, the video being Jam, too bad Moonwalker came out BEFORE Dangerous did as I can see Jam, Black or White, or Remember the Time being included in this) and for a very long time back when I still had a Genesis.

of course I first played this game on this exact site 11 years ago as an SMS on a Java emulator, but today we're going to talk about the game on the GEN system, because I don't need a plugin to play this.


Story and Gameplay: This game is based off the last bit of Michael Jackson's Straight to Video movie Moonwalker, which was mostly just a collection of well, how do I explain this this was mostly a love letter to himself. Anyway MJ is the smooth criminal in this one he's saving children (mostly little girls that are modeled to look like the little girl in that was in Moonwalker) from the crazy drug peddler that was in that bit, I could make a home alone joke but I won't.

Graphic: Way better than the SMS version.

Soundtrack: What isn't there to love about the soundtrack, a video game with Michael Jackson music in the background? YES PLEASE!

Addictive: I want to play it on this site again but none of the emulators seem to work I keep seeing that Not loading properly on the RetroArch players (sorry but this one works best for me even though I have shared my problems with it).

Depth: You have more to do in this version than in the SMS release, at least you can kick in this game you can't in SMS. Here you can kick, and punch pixie dust in enemies faces, and we get a real boss round to face off against.

Difficulty: I had to play this game again on a different site because like I said none of the RetroArch players work for this game on this site. I got as far as level 4 once, the round with the Spiders and Billie Jean, the cemetery level was a real PITA especially in the boss level, those floating zombies, those dogs ugh! it's a miracle I was able to get to the spiders for the first time at all.

Overall: to be honest, I've never got to the end of this game but there's nothing in the by-laws that say I would have to have finished the game in order to post a review for this. I would have killed to have played this game when I was 14, heck considering that I had my GEN at the time still we could have, but we never did find a copy of it, and man do I ever miss Cash Converters (which was a pawn shop where my dad always found replacement consoles for me when something stopped working. Moonwalker actually was supposed to be released in theaters but for budgetary reasons it had to go straight to video (which I do own a copy of) we sadly didn't get a theatrical film until This is It came out 4 months after his death, which still kind of hurts...the movie was good though, it was the closest I would ever get to seeing Jackson in concert. And as for the game itself it's better than the movie.

I will give this a 9.