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Sonic the Hedgehog 3 credits Michael Jackson's Team 5 Background on SEGA Sound Team and Cube Corp.4.2.1 Black & White Magazine (2009) Interview.This further points in the direction of Michael Jackson choosing not to be credited, rather than Sega pulling the plug themselves (who always had the option to choose their older, in-house compositions). But additionally, with the revelation of the Sonic the Hedgehog 3 prototype in 2019, it appears that the music that Michael Jackson's team produced was actually used to replace existing tracks composed by Sega's internal sound team, which would be first heard in Sonic & Knuckles Collection. In this article, they explained that they were in fact assembled by Michael Jackson to help compose music for the game and that their music could still be heard in the final release. In 2016, Todd van Luling from the Huffington Post reached out to all of the Western composers involved. Additionally, Buxer stated that the scandal was not the cause, but Michael Jackson's dissatisfaction with the sound quality of the Sega Mega Drive system. Brad Buxer, a member of Michael Jackson's production team, argued that the music was not removed, but that Michael Jackson was simply uncredited. General Manager of the Sega Technical Institute at that time, Roger Hector, stated in a 2005 interview and in a follow-up video interview on Pop Fiction in 2013 that this scandal lead to Michael Jackson's music being removed. In 1993, Michael Jackson became caught up in child sexual abuse allegations and canceled the final leg of his Dangerous World Tour due to health concerns. This was later referenced in a season four episode of the show. The most famous example of this is the third season episode of the American animated sitcom The Simpsons, Stark Raving Dad (1991), where despite guest-starring as "Micheal Jackson", the credit is given to "John Jay Smith", a person that does not exist. Reportedly Jackson's record label at the time, Epic Records refused permission for the star to sing for any of its potential rivals. Jackson had a history of going uncredited (or using pseudonyms) in productions, often due to contractual complications. And yet, strangely, several staff members have mentioned the star by name. Jackson's omission was perhaps not surprising, particularly in the early 90s when only the core team of developers usually made it into the credits. Instead, credited were individuals Brad Buxer, Bobby Brooks, Darryl Ross, Geoff Grace, Doug Grigsby III, and Scirocco (the Sega Sound Team and Cube were treated as secondary to the "music composers"). However, Michael Jackson was not credited in Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (as well as Sonic & Knuckles - the eventual "second half" of the adventure).
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Lisa Simpson, The Simpsons episode 9F03, " The Itchy & Scratchy Movie" Dustin Hoffman, Michael Jackson.of course they didn't use their real names, but you could tell it was them. He liked video games, he liked Sonic the Hedgehog, and Sega accepted immediately.Īnd you wouldn't believe the celebrities who did cameos. Jackson had a history with Sega (most notably producing Michael Jackson's Moonwalker early in the Mega Drive's lifespan) and had visited Sega's offices in Japan some months prior. Answering the call, Sega is thought to have been approached by pop sensation Michael Jackson and his team. Soon after development on Sonic the Hedgehog 2 was complete, core staff members Yuji Naka, Hirokazu Yasuhara, and Takashi Iizuka were brought back to Japan to begin work on Sonic the Hedgehog 3. Sega declined, and decided to look elsewhere for the composition power needed in Sonic the Hedgehog 3. Nakamura wanted more royalties both for his new music, and for the reuse of his compositions in the future. Masato Nakamura, responsible for the soundtracks to the first two Mega Drive Sonic games, was having a great deal of success with his band, Dreams Come True, leading to him upping his demands for work on a possible Sonic 3. It is not fully understood how much of the soundtrack is owned by the company, having outsourced its production to third-parties, some of which have chosen to distance themselves from the project in later years. Unlike other Sonic games, the music of Sonic the Hedgehog 3 stands as an ongoing controversy for Sega due to the choices made during development. Back to: Sonic the Hedgehog 3/Development.