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Fri 07/02/03 at 16:55
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Ever wanted to be a plastic-faced superstar? No, me either, but here is a plan of what a Michael Jackson game would be like.

- MJ: The Game would be an adventure into the twisted world of the controversial pop artist. You would take control of the plastic faced mega-star in a series of quests and escapades that are true to his real life character and follow his actual career.

The first challenge in the game would be to start as a small black singer who tries to make it big. You will have to bash different buttons to reach all of the high notes until you are good enough to start it out in the solo world. Young MJ will develop new singing skills and get offers from different record labels, it will be up to you to choose the path of his early life and eventually make it big.

The next phase of the game will be the step into stardom, Thriller. It would be an endurance-based test where you have the track & field button-bash controls to hold onto trees and lampposts in the various scenes of the video where 90 mile an hour winds are trying to take your hair off. If your button bashing isn’t up to par then you will lose grip and be nothing more than a bloody smear on the studio wall. If you manage to survive the various shoots then you have made it into celebrity stardom and become recognised amongst the ranks of the most recognised superstars in the world.

At this point in the game you will take the big step and turn from super-cool black singer into plastic-faced pointy-nosed freak. You first have to track down a back street surgeon willing to undertake such a bizarre (and illegal) task. After hunting down a ‘doctor’ willing to perform the operation you must specify what you want done (i.e. short back and sides, oh and make me white and with a pointy nose!). After the operation is complete you have to face the world and make little children afraid of you. You can try to get back into the music circuit or opt for a mansion with a theme park called Never Land.

What does the man who can buy anything want? Something no amount of money can buy, kiddie love. You have to lure young children into your home (not too hard for a man with a theme park) then convince them to stay the night… in your bed. Different buttons would be different actions, for example (A) would grab the child and drag them to the bedroom, (B) would offer them ‘milk and cookies’ and (X) would bring out the pink furry handcuffs. As if this wasn’t tricky enough, you have to stop the parents of the children pressing charges when little Billy tells them what exactly you did to them. You can bribe the family and hope they wont tell the media or you can get Tony and the boys to ‘off ‘em for you’ and live in relative security.

Michael Jackson calls himself Peter Pan and states he won’t grow old (Well it is hard to tell age through 2 inches of solid plastic!). This phase of the game puts that statement to the test and sees if MJ can live up to traits associated with Peter Pan, namely flying, killing pirates and, erm, flying into children’s bedrooms with pixies in tow. The flying will take place over a few different race circuits where you will compete against such fan favourites as superman, Casper the friendly ghost and a Boeing 747. In order to progress you must beat your opponents over different circuits. Once you have done so you have to fight the evil pirates who are trying to take over Never Land, or as we call them in the real world, the social services. You can throw rocks, petrol bombs and cufflinks at them and shout threatening insults like, “Go away, I’m a nice guy” or “I just want to love kids”. If you manage to dispose of the ‘pirates’ you can go to MJ’s favourite part of the game, flying into kids bedrooms whilst they’re sleeping. You have to lumber up the side of the house using a pulley system, open their window and grab them, throw them in the back of a van and take them away to Never Land to help you fight the pirates. Once you have kidnapped an army of children from various houses, you have finished that segment of the game.

Next is the very testing and strategic part of the game. You have to be interviewed about your life and blatantly lie to the media. A ‘Who Wants To Be a Millionaire’ box will appear on your screen and every time a question is asked you will have to select which is the total lie. You can tell the world about sharing your bed with children and get branded a paedophile by half of the population of the world. You can then tell everyone you didn’t have plastic surgery on your skin, you just woke up and was white one day. This will make your public persona very bad and cause the social services to lock you away in a prison or asylum.

Once you are under the scrupulous eye of the law you must escape and re-start your pop career before it is too late. By the time you manage to escape or are set free, the world will have forgotten about you and you will have to begin from scratch. You will have to enter the elusive Pop Idol and attempt to impress an arthritic Simon Cowell amongst other judges. You may get into the pop music circuit once more or you may end up working in a dungaree’s warehouse near Surrey. The options are endless!

Michael Jackson: The Game will be hitting the shelves just as soon as Maxis stop producing those infernal Sims games! It will be priced at £35.99 except in GAME where it will be about £45.50 with a cracked cover and scratched disk.


Hope you enjoyed this and I am sorry if I offended anyone.
-kyz²²-
Fri 07/02/03 at 16:55
Regular
"Z will be here soon"
Posts: 7,562
Ever wanted to be a plastic-faced superstar? No, me either, but here is a plan of what a Michael Jackson game would be like.

- MJ: The Game would be an adventure into the twisted world of the controversial pop artist. You would take control of the plastic faced mega-star in a series of quests and escapades that are true to his real life character and follow his actual career.

The first challenge in the game would be to start as a small black singer who tries to make it big. You will have to bash different buttons to reach all of the high notes until you are good enough to start it out in the solo world. Young MJ will develop new singing skills and get offers from different record labels, it will be up to you to choose the path of his early life and eventually make it big.

The next phase of the game will be the step into stardom, Thriller. It would be an endurance-based test where you have the track & field button-bash controls to hold onto trees and lampposts in the various scenes of the video where 90 mile an hour winds are trying to take your hair off. If your button bashing isn’t up to par then you will lose grip and be nothing more than a bloody smear on the studio wall. If you manage to survive the various shoots then you have made it into celebrity stardom and become recognised amongst the ranks of the most recognised superstars in the world.

At this point in the game you will take the big step and turn from super-cool black singer into plastic-faced pointy-nosed freak. You first have to track down a back street surgeon willing to undertake such a bizarre (and illegal) task. After hunting down a ‘doctor’ willing to perform the operation you must specify what you want done (i.e. short back and sides, oh and make me white and with a pointy nose!). After the operation is complete you have to face the world and make little children afraid of you. You can try to get back into the music circuit or opt for a mansion with a theme park called Never Land.

What does the man who can buy anything want? Something no amount of money can buy, kiddie love. You have to lure young children into your home (not too hard for a man with a theme park) then convince them to stay the night… in your bed. Different buttons would be different actions, for example (A) would grab the child and drag them to the bedroom, (B) would offer them ‘milk and cookies’ and (X) would bring out the pink furry handcuffs. As if this wasn’t tricky enough, you have to stop the parents of the children pressing charges when little Billy tells them what exactly you did to them. You can bribe the family and hope they wont tell the media or you can get Tony and the boys to ‘off ‘em for you’ and live in relative security.

Michael Jackson calls himself Peter Pan and states he won’t grow old (Well it is hard to tell age through 2 inches of solid plastic!). This phase of the game puts that statement to the test and sees if MJ can live up to traits associated with Peter Pan, namely flying, killing pirates and, erm, flying into children’s bedrooms with pixies in tow. The flying will take place over a few different race circuits where you will compete against such fan favourites as superman, Casper the friendly ghost and a Boeing 747. In order to progress you must beat your opponents over different circuits. Once you have done so you have to fight the evil pirates who are trying to take over Never Land, or as we call them in the real world, the social services. You can throw rocks, petrol bombs and cufflinks at them and shout threatening insults like, “Go away, I’m a nice guy” or “I just want to love kids”. If you manage to dispose of the ‘pirates’ you can go to MJ’s favourite part of the game, flying into kids bedrooms whilst they’re sleeping. You have to lumber up the side of the house using a pulley system, open their window and grab them, throw them in the back of a van and take them away to Never Land to help you fight the pirates. Once you have kidnapped an army of children from various houses, you have finished that segment of the game.

Next is the very testing and strategic part of the game. You have to be interviewed about your life and blatantly lie to the media. A ‘Who Wants To Be a Millionaire’ box will appear on your screen and every time a question is asked you will have to select which is the total lie. You can tell the world about sharing your bed with children and get branded a paedophile by half of the population of the world. You can then tell everyone you didn’t have plastic surgery on your skin, you just woke up and was white one day. This will make your public persona very bad and cause the social services to lock you away in a prison or asylum.

Once you are under the scrupulous eye of the law you must escape and re-start your pop career before it is too late. By the time you manage to escape or are set free, the world will have forgotten about you and you will have to begin from scratch. You will have to enter the elusive Pop Idol and attempt to impress an arthritic Simon Cowell amongst other judges. You may get into the pop music circuit once more or you may end up working in a dungaree’s warehouse near Surrey. The options are endless!

Michael Jackson: The Game will be hitting the shelves just as soon as Maxis stop producing those infernal Sims games! It will be priced at £35.99 except in GAME where it will be about £45.50 with a cracked cover and scratched disk.


Hope you enjoyed this and I am sorry if I offended anyone.
-kyz²²-
Fri 07/02/03 at 17:03
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"Which one's pink?"
Posts: 12,152
Yey!
Quite good, I must say.
Funny stuff.

I've gotta say though, after watching the Bazhir interview, I felt more sympathetic towards Michael.
I mean he was working since he was around 8 years old, and was forced to perform really.

He was also abused, and I suppose you can compare all of thisthis with Indian dancing bears (no, I'm not mad).
The only difference is that the pain was emotional and not physical.

OK, I'm rambling on now, but good pots.
Fri 07/02/03 at 17:03
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"bei-jing-jing-jing"
Posts: 7,403
LOL! Great Post! And its just like what all these games would be like...copying other games, hints of Track And Field, The Sims, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire and, erm, that dancing game, were all mentioned!

*takes hat off*
Fri 07/02/03 at 17:14
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"Jog on, sunshine"
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Excellent post Kyle. I think that's your best yet.

:)
Fri 07/02/03 at 17:20
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"cachoo"
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Excellent! Loved it. This best be made into a real game, I want it now =)

Gawd, you always get my hopes up about these games..

Well, I might read that again and hopefully I'll feel like I've already played it.

I'm expecting more of your art Kyz!! :)

Keep it up :D
Fri 07/02/03 at 17:36
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"Still luv her?! dun"
Posts: 932
Heh! Ha harh! Nice one Mr. Kyle Kyz22! That is definitely a GAD winner!!! Unless someone starts a new topic about why Madonna left the UK. :S
Fri 07/02/03 at 17:39
"For the horde!!!!"
Posts: 3,656
what about Moonwalker(thing thats what it was called) on the Megadrive that was jacko
Fri 07/02/03 at 17:40
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"Big Pimpin'"
Posts: 664
Did you know that Michael Jackson asked Maddona to be in the video for "Keep it in the Closet" but MICHAEL declined when Maddona sid she'd do it if she dressed up as a man and he dressed up as a woman! Its True!
Fri 07/02/03 at 17:54
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"Aka Hammond"
Posts: 446
Shadow Knight wrote:
> what about Moonwalker(thing thats what it was called) on the Megadrive
> that was jacko

I had that game and i thought it was great. :)
Fri 07/02/03 at 18:12
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"Comfortably Numb"
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I liked the GAME gag.

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