迈克尔·杰克逊和你从未玩过的街机游戏《月球漫步者》的制作

史蒂文·斯皮尔伯格、道格拉斯·特朗布尔和水口哲也参与的故事

Michael Jackson remains a polarizing figure for some, but to a potentially larger group of fans he's still one of the most accomplished pop stars of all time – and, sitting here in 2024, it's easy to forget just how huge he was in terms of popularity and reach during the '80s and '90s.

对于一些人来说，迈克尔·杰克逊仍然是一个两极分化的人物，但对于更多潜在的粉丝群体来说，他仍然是有史以来最有成就的流行歌星之一——而且，在 2024 年坐在这里，人们很容易忘记他的受欢迎程度有多大并在 80 年代和 90 年代达到。

Jackson was arguably at the height of his powers when he teamed up with Sega to create a selection of video games based on his 1988 movie Moonwalker. Now, former Sega staffer Roppyaku Tsurumi (also known as Masahito Shimizu) has spoken to Shueisha Online about the development of the Moonwalker coin-op, a unique isometric action title which was never ported to any home system (the Mega Drive and Master System games are totally different).

当杰克逊与世嘉合作根据他 1988 年的电影《月球漫步》制作一系列视频游戏时，可以说他正处于权力的巅峰。现在，前世嘉员工鹤见六皮（又名清水正仁）向集英社在线谈论了 Moonwalker 投币游戏的开发，这是一款独特的等距动作游戏，从未移植到任何家庭系统（Mega Drive 和 Master System 游戏）是完全不同的）。

Tsurumi begins by revealing that the project was based around a single A4 proposal and that he wasn't initially all that interested in it. "I had only seen 'Thriller' and its music video, and I wasn't very interested in Michael's music, so I responded ambiguously," he tells Shueisha Online. "We incorporated elements of 'SHINOBI' into the proposal and started developing the game. However, since we were all newcomers, we had a lot of doubts about whether this was really okay. But towards the middle of development, veteran developers joined us and the game gradually took shape."

Tsurumi 首先透露该项目是基于一个 A4 提案，并且他最初对此并不那么感兴趣。 “我只看过《Thriller》及其音乐录影带，对迈克尔的音乐不太感兴趣，所以我的回答含糊其辞，”他告诉集英社在线。 “我们将‘SHINOBI’的元素融入到提案中并开始开发游戏。然而，由于我们都是新人，我们对这是否真的可以有很多疑问。但在开发中期，资深开发人员加入了我们，游戏逐渐成型。”

He also remembers one of Jackson's most memorable comments during the game's development: "Don't kill your enemies, purify them," was the instruction. "He was a man full of love," says Tsurumi.

他还记得杰克逊在游戏开发过程中最令人难忘的评论之一：“不要杀死你的敌人，净化他们”是指令。 “他是一个充满爱的人，”鹤见说。

Tsurumi would have regular check-ins with Jackson to ensure the game was progressing as planned. "The letter would start with, 'Mr. Jackson says...' and he would say things like, 'That's great, but what do you think about doing it this way?' or 'This is what I would think, but what do the development team think? I want to respect the wishes of the development team,' and I was surprised at how his responses always took us developers into consideration."

鹤见会定期与杰克逊联系，以确保比赛按计划进行。 “这封信的开头是，‘杰克逊先生说……’，然后他会说，‘那太好了，但是你觉得这样做怎么样？’或者‘这是我的想法，但开发团队怎么想？我想尊重开发团队的意愿’，我很惊讶他的回答总是考虑到我们开发人员。”

The Moonwalker coin-op is often overlooked when people discuss Jackson's work with Sega, as the home console version on the Mega Drive was arguably more successful commercially. Still, when Jackson passed away in 2009, it deeply impacted Tsurumi. After watching the movie Michael Jackson: This Is It – released in the year of his death – he saw the side of the performer he remembered from working with him in the '90s.

当人们讨论杰克逊与世嘉的合作时，月球漫步者投币游戏经常被忽视，因为 Mega Drive 上的家用游戏机版本可以说在商业上更成功。尽管如此，杰克逊于 2009 年去世，仍对鹤见产生了深远的影响。在观看了迈克尔·杰克逊去世当年上映的电影《迈克尔·杰克逊：就是这样》后，他看到了他记忆中的 90 年代与他合作的表演者的一面。

"The Michael in that movie is the Michael I know," he says. "The Michael in the movie is not the entertainer you see in live performances or music videos, but a person who shared ideas with his team to create the perfect stage, respected his team members, but was also a person who would not compromise on certain things, and possessed both the qualities of a creator and a producer. Looking back, I was reminded of how equally he treated the development team at Sega, which was full of newcomers at the time. I was so happy to see such a global superstar playing the game with such shining eyes, and that he came all the way to Sega just for that. He was someone whose aura you could see just by being there. Now I'm a big Michael fan, too (laughs)."

“那部电影中的迈克尔就是我所认识的迈克尔，”他说。 “电影中的迈克尔不是你在现场表演或音乐录影带中看到的艺人，而是一个与团队分享想法以创造完美舞台的人，尊重团队成员，同时也是一个在某些事情上不会妥协的人。回想起来，他对当时充满新人的世嘉开发团队是多么的平等，我很高兴看到这样的全球巨星。他以如此闪亮的眼睛玩游戏，就是为了这一点他才来到世嘉，现在我也是迈克尔的忠实粉丝了（笑）。”

[source shueisha.online, via x.com]

[来源 shueisha.online，来自 x.com]