The age-old conspiracy that late pop king Michael Jackson wrote the score for Sonic the Hedgehog 3 is true, according to a new report.
Jackson had a relationship with Sega, which made its Moonwalker game. He also starred in Space Channel 5 and its sequel. It has long been claimed that Jackson had some sort of involvement with Sonic 3, with internet sleuths frequently referencing the similarities between some of its tracks and Jackson’s chart hits.
Now a new report from Huffington Post claims that Michael Jackson was in fact the composer of the game’s score. It also reaffirms previous claims that he name was removed from the credits as he was unhappy with how the final product sounded once the music had been compressed.
Today marks Sonic 3’s 30th anniversary, one of the Blue Blur’s most talked about entries among fans.
Sonic 3 & Knuckles is peak 2D Sonic for me. Probably my most played Genesis game.
No, not a divisive game. The visuals, levels, music, controls were all great. Having to buy Sonic & Knuckles wasn't an issue at all, just more awesome gaming made available to me at the time. I lived through that era, and I don't remember anyone complaining that they had to buy another cartridge just to get the complete game, if you enjoyed Sonic games on the Genesis, you were happy to get another one back then.
The only issue with Sonic 3 is that stupid freakin' horrible "BARREL OF DOOM!" all because Sonic Team didn't properly communicate to the player what to do.
I had 1 & 2, I played 3 at someone else's house. When I heard about S3 & Knuckles I assumed it was the same game with just Knuckles added in and thought it was stupid, until I found out a while later it was much more. I wonder how much more they could've put onto the game carts, I know there were cut levels in some of the games.
At the height of the popularity the series enjoyed, Sonic the Hedgehog 3 released in North America on February 2, 1994. Take a look back.
Very much agreed!
I've beaten that game more than any other in my childhood. Says a lot because if you knew how many times I've beaten MGS2 and MGS3, you'd be shocked.
Strong disagree. I much prefer the first 2 Sonic games, but the 3rd one I felt didn’t have the memorable and quality level design Sonic 1/2 had. It just looked more generic and like other platformers, instead of having that Sonic-look.
Also, I believe this had the ‘grab vines’ mechanic, so you were running through the level and made a jump, and suddenly you were hanging from some vine, which wasn’t the intention. So it quickly became a bit frustrating when that interrupted the flow, and I felt that new gameplay addition actually detracted from the game, instead of adding to it, and felt it was also unnecessary.
It’s not a bad game of course, but I just feel Sonic 1 and 2 were more ‘Sonic’, and Sonic 3 just had less of that ‘Sonic’ style.
It’s a close call for me. Sonic 3 is brilliant and still stands the test of time but Sonic 2 just edges for me but I can see why my colleagues lauds 3 as a great game.
It’s abort knowing the level.. the vine you were takling about was a minor thing. Sonic 3 did everything Way better: bonus levels, iso 3D, more levels, better Music , Coop and more.. Sonic 2 felt like 1,5 to me. Some levels felt too similar.
Sonic 3& Knuckles is the peak of sonic.. nothing comes close.. that last level though Dooms Day.. brilliant! On every front
Sonic 2& Knuckles was amazing, added some nice things to it. Don’t know if you got the chance to try it out
I would give sonic and knuckles a slight edge, but you are speaking facts right now.
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Aww man. I forgot about Boogerman. And the McDonald’s game. Me, my sister, and a lot of my cousins put countless hours into that one.
I have Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Hyperstone Heist, complete. It's awesome and I've beaten it so many times.
"all of which were recorded to the same quality as any of the singer’s normal releases before being simplified and toned down so as to fit the tone – and the cartridge"
Wait so there's normal, uncompressed, high quality tracks of the Sonic 3 songs.
Damn...things which will never come to light. I like the retro feel of the songs we have but it would be nice to hear what they sounded like originally
The King of Pop lives on forever
I'm not sure why all the secrecy from Sega regarding this. It's been over 20 years!
this has been pretty "official" for a while now
Sonic 3 was developed in a secret facility in Silicon Valley? I thought it was Japan.
The MJ "conspiracy theory" never seemed that wild to me. He had already worked with Sega on two games, had Sega arcade games in his private collection, and Dreams Come True, a Japanese pop group, did the music for the first game.
The Huffington Post article that this MCVUK article links to is much more in depth about the story.
It's kind of surprising they didn't want to do a CD version (Sega CD) which wouldn't have had the compression problems.
There's a nice mashup of Sonic 3's ending song and Stranger in Moscow by DJ Yuzoboy from a few years back:
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