You don’t know how much i appreciate these arcade history videos!!!!

I never played the Genesis version. The arcade version was SICK! My friends and I had so mich fun with that one.

Michael Jackson was both so awesome and bizarre at the same time. Only he could make a movie and video game where he transformed into a robot and had magical dance powers. He was so red hot in pop culture, then it all came crashing down as this was basically the height of his reign as the king of pop.

That is a really fun game, one of my favorite Genesis games

When I was a kid I had the sega genesis version of moonwalker. It's the first game I ever beat. In the end Annie was okay.

Sega and Nintendo should try to remaster the arcade version for the switch. Biggest problem might be his estate

The song for the arcade game's end credits was "Billie Jean".

Oh, Michael Jackson did return to work with Sega, he's one of the main characters in Space Channel 5 Part 2, He's in the original too, but not offically.

One of the most underrated licensed games of all time. Amazing graphics, perfect 16-bit conversions of Michael's songs and music overall, really impressive sound design and animation for the time albeit dated now and super tight controls. If only the gameplay and children models were more varied. It had so much potential. The arcade version is better.

Another ringer Patman. You’ve really got a knack for this. Fortunately for us there are hundreds and hundreds of amazing arcade games available for you to make videos about which will keep You busy for years! ;-)

I've been binge-watching your videos every night this week; very entertaining and informative documentaries..thank you!

Been a big fan for a few weeks. Just saw you hit 32k subs! Love how you give a comparison of the arcade ports for each system. Definitely my favorite channel for this genre as I've not seen ports compared very often. Love your content and appreciate all the hard work you put into it. Keep em coming good sir!

I have never understood why the graveyard board didn't have Thriller as the background music. Took 30 years but finally know why. Thanks

"Shops at Kmart because he heard kids clothes are Half-Off"...That's a Classic.

I don't know if you caught this before, but thank you so much for your channel Patman, you've given me so much joy and I have also learned some really interesting things even about games I thought I knew quite well. I hope someday you will cover the history of Karate Champ, I am intrigued to learn more about that one.

New best retro game channel. Glad i am a patreon.

The only arcade related gaming channel needed. Brilliant stuff

I watched this video when it first went up and tried to comment on it afterward but couldn't because it was already down. I like that you fixed the issues with it. feels better.

Patman your videos are awesome. They brighten my day up. Thanks and your doing great kid.

Immediately downloaded a rom of the game to play after seeing your video, had so much fun playing it and is now one of my favorite arcade games!

I loved playing this game on arcade iw ould play it all the time in my local chuck e cheese back in the day. Fun beat em up. Great video Pat, stellar as always.

I LOVED THIS GAME! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR MAKING THIS VIDEO

the arcade game was awesome, lost so many quarters on it back in the days...

Love your stuff!!! Thanks again!

the clip of Jackson playing the pinball machine with the pepsi truck on the side reminded me of the time he had his hair burnt off and suffered sever burns to his scalp and face during a pepsi commercial shoot back in the early 80's.

I own a bunch of arcade cabs, and one of them used to be Point Blank, but under the control panel was stickers for Wrestlefest, which it also used to be, but on the back, the serial number and plaque is Sega, and it was originally Moon Walker. Great video

I think the deleted digital versions of the songs were originally meant to be played during the special attacks. They must have felt out of place or something. But Another Part of Me does still play in the game.

Omg yesss. A Channel for arcade history. Subbed

Thanks, Sir Pat! I was always disappointed with the Genesis ver. growing up since it wasn't a straight port of the arcade game that I was so fond of. Looking forward to your next video!

I like how you construct your reviews, also ur knowledge of video game history is pretty vast.

“...all the enemies stop what they’re doing and dance right along with the King of Pop until it kills them.” One of the funniest and most surreal lines i’ve heard in quite a while 😆

Thanks for another great arcade documentary! I remember this game from back in the day where the concept of MJ going around looking for and collecting kids wasn't a problematic one....

Great run down of the games. Thoroughly enjoyed watching👍

Always such a great work, subscribed. Cheers from Brasil!!!

The deadpan delivery of “pants half off”, had me in stitches. Well done sir.

Jackson did the music to Sonic3. The songs were later worked on for stuff like Stranger in Moscow etc. there’s comparison videos and history on KZfaq, it was officially confirmed a few years ago.

I believe Michael Jackson appears in Space Channel 5 as an NPC. Sega didn't think he'd want to be a playable character but reportedly he loved what they did, so plans were made to included him as a playable character in Space Channel 5, Part 2. Then came the allegations against Jackson, at which point they cancelled their plans to include him in Part 2. Sega further elected to not have a Space Channel 5, Part 3 because they felt that there was nowhere for the series to go, despite this they partnered with THQ to release a Space Channel 5 side game for the Game Boy Advance. As for Moonwalker, I own both the Master System and Genesis versions.

Okay, I heard the K-Mart joke before... but not told that way. Ya got me!

Been waiting on this one PatMan! Was just thinking about why you haven’t covered this gem lol. Still play this on mame!! 🔥🔥 Really surprised at how ppl didn’t know this game never existed

Great work with your videos, Amazing info.

I never did encounter this game - not in the arcades or console. Michael Jackson was pretty much just a big kid, so it makes sense he'd want to be featured in a video game.

Your videos are awesome

Love all your arcade knowledge Thanks man!!!

07:23 Oh my God! That killed me! I literally spat my tea across the tablet!!! 😳🤣 This was one of your best yet Patman! I loved the game for my Megadrive, and it was always on my list when venturing into an arcade. Although, hindsight being a wonderful thing, the notion of Michael "collecting" children secreted in car trunks, cupboards and trash cans really does make the adult Resident Elect think... 🤔 Great video matey, well done 🇺🇸🇬🇧

Fun video Informative,light hearted and a nice touch of humour

This was HIGHLY entertaining. I never knew this game existed, which is kinda strange considering I was born in '77 and grew up in the '80's. Ghostbusters, Back to the Future, The Breakfast Club, Short Circuit, etc. were pretty much what ny little world revolved around besides video games and MTV. Thanks for the upload, Patman fever. I appreciate it ;P

Awesome video as always, I just bought this arcade board and love it. It is such a solid game. The suicide battery I believe would kill one of the ic chips and take out the sound. Luckily now people found a way around this by replacing the processing chip with battery mod with a z80 ( probably a z80b but not sure off hand) and reburn the right ic chip with new data and it will work fine.

I'll admit that most of the games you cover I never even saw in arcades! I played most with my best bud, who was the real gamer on his systems. I got a kick out of 2 player stuff but there were many times I'd just enjoy the graphics, storyline and action of him playing. This game was soooo bizarre and odd. Lol. His sound effects he (Michael) made were odd enough but hunting for kids and turning into that weird, ugly robot was otherworldly! Plus, the, "Michael!" the kids would exclaim as you found them. Lololol (They were prolly hiding from him to begin with....right!?) My bud and I, to this day, will randomly exclaim, "Michael!!" randomly in falsetto....sticks withya! Thanks, Patman!

Used to play this at my friend’s house on his Genesis and NGL, we spent most of the time having Michael slide down staircase railings making that extended “Ooooooooooh!” noise cuz we thought it was hilarious 😅

Love your videos! Just became a Patron!

Well that's one longstanding mystery solved. I was wondering why they didn't use "Thriller" for the graveyard stage. Thanks for enlightening me, professor.

I remember play Michael Jackson Moonwalker in the arcade along with my cousins so yeah this game really brings back memories and I also own the Sega Genesis version of Michael Jackson Moonwalker thanks for reminding me of this one.

Had this on Genesis! Wow so much nostalgia playing this in my basement with my cousins. I was a huge MJ fan back then too so I loved it.

Every one of these history videos are quality, we need this taught in schools 😁👍

You making this Moonwalker video made me SUBSCRIBE to your channel just now👍

I'd love to see videos on a few favorites. Hopefully they make it onto your playlist one of these days. Love your channel! Galaga Earthworm Jim Toe Jam & Earl Pitfall

I was wondering when you were gonna do this one. 😁😁😁

Thank you..... This was one of my favorite games as a kid..... I would tell people about this game and no one would believe me

Beautiful video

I made a mistake it's not tecmo fighter but tecmo knight sorry about that

Up for hours in the early 90s

Thanks for the great vids man:) how about a review of Xexex or X-multiply keep up the top work.

This is a game I have to play whenever I see it in an arcade.

Used to love playing moonwalker at my aunt's house when I was a kid

The boys pants were always half off, good one 💯

Best channel on KZfaq.

I remember dropping a few quarters into this machine , wasn't too bad a game. As always great video.

Very informative!👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

I remember seeing Moonwalker in the magazines when I still only had the Master System. There was a video store in an old Root Beer Barrel type hamburger restaurant where you drive your car up to and that was the only place in town that rented Master System games so I rented it there I'm pretty sure they were probably also selling drugs out of that place LOL

I have only seen the Michael Jackson Moonwalker game once in an arcade. You would think I would have been exposed to it after spending many days throughout my childhood in arcades. Hell, when we were growing up every 7-11 and small business had arcade games. I remember going to freaking Tire Kingdom and playing arcade games while waiting for my parents car to be fixed. I remember bringing my Sega Genesis with me to my stepfathers old shop and hooking it to the TV in the waiting room to play games (after hours). At any rate...the one and only time I was exposed to the Moonwalker arcade cab was at a retro arcade in...I want to say...2016. It was interesting to be sure; However, what made it next to impossible to play was the sound was jacked up so high that it gave me a headache from playing it. Everytime Michael shouted it was as if he had a bullhorn next to me ears and I couldn't find any enjoyment out of it. The arcade cab was so loud it made playing most games around it an impossible task. I wound up moving to the front of the arcade and settled down with a Strider cab...now that is a great game! Oh, your information about Michael hiding his name for Sonic 3 is...well I don't want too say incorrect just different from what I heard. I was told that he hid his involvement due to his contract forbidding him to work on anything outside his record label.

"Little boys' pants were always half off" ...... holy shit.

Cool and interesting history for the game. I didn't know there was a version of the Genesis game with Thriller! I need to find that dumped ROM!

Great vid , Odd is unique, it means ur different, mystical and unlimited

@ PatmanQC - History of arcade game documentaries One correction though I may be late for over a year, and it is that in 2:33 you said that the MoonWalker film was released in 1998, when in fact it was 1988. Regardless, great video as always my friend :)

I had read somewhere that he went uncredited on Sonic 3 because his record contract didn't allow him to make music for anybody else.

I was unaware of an arcade version of this game. Much less the master system version. Much much less the suicide battery which would have angered me had I lost any money and systems due to it. If only they knew to position it in a better manner (below the board)to avoid acid leaking on to that board. Hindsight 20/20 I guess. Anyhow it did not affect me, as I never owned an arcade as I wished for back then. I sympathize with the victims, as I have had acid leak into my remote control's, etc, that I usually can repair by scrubbing it with a bristle brush, but a board I don't know. I'm sure they tried their best. This game was not played on my genesis yet it looks OK. I always learn something new from your content while enjoying the flashback of the past century. Great video.

I’ve always wanted this game I rented it on genesis but never had it , it’s about 60 on eBay might just have to pull the trigger

I so loved the arcade version that I made a custom Arcade1Up Moonwalker cabinet!

Holy smokes, I thought I was up on all the stuff from the 80's and 90's, and I had no idea there was an arcade game (I did love the Genesis version, however).

i remember as a kid my whole family gathered around our zenith tv with the rabbit ears and tin foil to watch Michael Jackson showcase the Moonwalk for the first time! also, not sure which movie that had a person turn into a robot that scared me more than Moonwalker and Superman 3.

awesome i beat it on his birthday last year. RIP to a legend!

I remember playing this in the arcade attached to the Star Wars ride at Disney Land one of the two times I went there in the mid 90s but I'm not sure which trip it was if it wasn't both times

I always wondered why Thriller wasn't in the graveyard level. I remember hearing Another Part Of Me and it was the one song on the soundtrack I didn't know at the time. I actually enjoyed it quite a bit and thought it sounded a bit weird when I did hear the original since I was used to the version I heard in this game.

I want to go back to my childhood of the late 80's through early 2000's. We had some classic games.

I was just playing the genesis version the other night! I have never seen the computer version before

Congratulations, Moonwalker arcade still works in Guatemala, i don't like his music at all but this video game is amazing, my son didn't believe at first the existence of the game, i took him and we played until we beat the game. 🇬🇹😊 Please do a video about Konami's Life Force.

Imagine a modern day Remaster on next gen consoles..Woooo!!! 😊🖒

incredible.

When Michael died, his will stated that he wanted to be recycled into playground equipment. That way, kids could still climb all over him.

More documentary, please! How about the history of bubble bobble?

Never played the the Arcade game, but played the hell out of the Genesis game! I enjoyed the Genesis game up until the last level space ship level was point less. Maybe someday I'll check the Arcade out on Mame 👍

i totally wrote off the Genesis version because i wanted the arcade version ported exactly the way it was or as close as it could get...

An arcade still had this in my town till a few years back.

I hope in future installments you can do the History of Jurassic Park Arcade games.

Nice n in-depth as per...💙 "Shamone, iih!" 😎

Finding captured girls,in car trunks and killing ppl with dance choreography can only ever be timeless

Hey 70k congrats patman

How nostalgic when waiting impatiently for other kids playing this games in the arcade, I spent 2 coins everyday just for this game, yeah.. my dad only gave me 2 for each a day..

I heard that Michael Jackson whipped down his Billy Jeans pulled out his Thriller and Beat It.

Interesting how on the Sega Master System game version M.J. fights with melee attacks on the enemies unlike the Sega Genesis capability ' to see M.J. use glitter magic attack moves.