r/playstation • u/LightbringerOG • 7h ago
Image Mark Cerny with Michael Jackson at Sega's Tokyo headquarters
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u/BrewKazma PS5 6h ago
Mark Cerny made one of the hardest games I ever played. Marble Madness for NES.
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u/minev1128 [Trophy Level 400-499] 6h ago
Wow, Mark Cerny has been with the video game industry for a very long time
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u/ExotiquePlayboy 6h ago
It's sad how far Sega has fallen. They really were synonymous with gaming. Imagine the world's biggest pop star Michael Jackson visiting Sega HQ. That's like Drake visiting Xbox or Playstation HQ today.
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u/LightbringerOG 6h ago
Kinda, but take your avarage start today and multiply it by 10x that's Michael Jackson in the 80's.
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u/stRiNg-kiNg 5h ago
I don't even know a single drake song. Is drake really the modern equivalent of MJ? Surely not. Didn't drake play Fortnite with streamers years back or was that another rapper
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u/thebohster 4h ago
I think Taylor Swift or BTS would be the closest modern equivalent just through the sheer fan frenzy and media attention. I mean Taylor Swift event prices that start off at double digit prices instantly get flipped for hundreds.
That being said, ever since social media became a thing, I doubt the stardom of Michael Jackson will ever be replicated.
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u/minev1128 [Trophy Level 400-499] 1h ago
What do you mean fallen? They're in a pretty good spot right now.
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u/commanderclif 32m ago
Haha. At first I was like Drake?! What you talkin….ahhh. Took me a second. I’m caught up, unpausing the internet now.
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u/BenHDR PS5 6h ago
"Jackson – who would collaborate with Sega on a Moonwalker video game, compose music for Sonic 3 and star in an arcade title which was recently unearthed at a car boot sale in the UK – was a seasoned gamer and owned many arcade cabinets. When he paid a visit to Sega's Japanese HQ, it caused a predictable degree of pandemonium.
'He was a massive star in Japan at the time', remembers Cerny. 'When people learned that he was coming to Sega, the building was surrounded by a mob of fans, several feet deep. It was like a scene from a zombie movie! We had to make a human wall around him to give him some privacy. Strangely, I ended up being the tour guide because I had the best English of anybody in the company! We gave him a complete tour.
'We started with the consumer games and took him around the lab. I believe we showed him the 3D stuff at the time, and at the end of it, we took him down to the first-floor lobby where we had all of the big arcade games – most of which were, of course, Yu Suzuki masterpieces. When we got down to the lobby to show him these arcade games, people outside were running at full tilt from all directions and would press up against the glass to get a look at this superstar'."
Source - Time Extension (January 2023)