Vidya has tons and tons of interesting facts, trivia, drama and other assorted things of interest that surround it. But one field that I feel gets over looked with in terms of that is video game music. So I thought I'd create a thread for it.
For starters, I'd like to point out that Ice Cap zone from Sonic 3 sounds nearly identical to the unreleased Jetzons's song Hard Times
The reason for this? Brad Buxter, who alongside Michael Jackson and the rest of MJ's music team, were contracted by Sega to do Sonic 3's soundtrack.(which is its own story entirely.) However, MJ wasn't satisfied with the Genesis's inferior sound quality, so he left the project, but said that the rest of his team could still work on the project. Brad Buxter, MJ's at the time keyboardist, also worked with a band called the Jetzons during the early 80s. During this time he worked on a song that would ultimately go unused called "Hard Times." Then in 2008, Fervor entertainment acquired the rights to the Jetzons, during which time they released the album The Complete Jetzons. Which included unreleased songs, one of which was Hard Times. This would go mostly unnoticed until 2013, when it suddenly blew up in interest. This may be because originally people thought the songs that were used for Ice Cap zone were "Who is it" and "Smooth Criminal."
However, the whole Michael Jackson Sonic 3 debacle is its own interesting topic, and while I would like to go into greater detail, I think this video in particular goes into it in greater detail then I could ever hope to do
But yeah, if you have any other Video Game Music facts or if you noticed a track from a game you play sounding like a song or something, just reply to this thread or something
For starters, I'd like to point out that Ice Cap zone from Sonic 3 sounds nearly identical to the unreleased Jetzons's song Hard Times
The reason for this? Brad Buxter, who alongside Michael Jackson and the rest of MJ's music team, were contracted by Sega to do Sonic 3's soundtrack.(which is its own story entirely.) However, MJ wasn't satisfied with the Genesis's inferior sound quality, so he left the project, but said that the rest of his team could still work on the project. Brad Buxter, MJ's at the time keyboardist, also worked with a band called the Jetzons during the early 80s. During this time he worked on a song that would ultimately go unused called "Hard Times." Then in 2008, Fervor entertainment acquired the rights to the Jetzons, during which time they released the album The Complete Jetzons. Which included unreleased songs, one of which was Hard Times. This would go mostly unnoticed until 2013, when it suddenly blew up in interest. This may be because originally people thought the songs that were used for Ice Cap zone were "Who is it" and "Smooth Criminal."
However, the whole Michael Jackson Sonic 3 debacle is its own interesting topic, and while I would like to go into greater detail, I think this video in particular goes into it in greater detail then I could ever hope to do
But yeah, if you have any other Video Game Music facts or if you noticed a track from a game you play sounding like a song or something, just reply to this thread or something
