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Moonwalker Mega Drive: Still Standing After 36 Years

On August 25, 1990, Michael Jackson's Moonwalker launched on Mega Drive. Not a quick cash-in movie tie-in, but a project shaped by the King of Pop himself—a documented gaming enthusiast—in partnership with Sega. Thirty-six years later, this game remains an anomaly in licensed game history: a cartridge that sounded right and played right. What it reveals about how musical licenses could, rarely, produce something genuinely real.