Since I have been going to collage in multimedia (video game focused) I have ran into many interesting professors I have met the persons who do many advertisements you see Such as the "citi bank" logo and I have herd the funny story about how she was burned out and it was one of her rejected ideas that the client liked...(well funny to the class anyway we laughed.)

The even more interesting ones how ever are the professors that was freelance designers/artist/what ever that worked for video game companies at one time. One of my current/"the best" is one who used to do layouts for the plastic game boxes at sega making the game art look nice setting up the text what not.

I found this out because by chance that day I had my sonic knuckles/sonic 3 and my sega nomad to show a fellow student I really did 14 chaos emeralds back in 1993 with all characters since he said it was impossible you know gamer guy talk.

The teacher walked passed and saw my sonic 3 box and went "Hey my box! I worked on designing that box." I am not going to name names to protect the innocent who signed NDA or something. (It was 1993 though so I am sure nobody cares anymore, but just to be safe.)

Needless to say I freaked out at had a sweet long talk about sonic 3's USA box art.

Thus getting into the "The "mega ton" 16-bit marketing promo that never was.."

Did you know like the Japanese band "Dreams come true" had written the music Michel Jackson was to do the music for the sonic 3 project? (sonic and knuckles is the other half of sonic 3 that did not fit.)

He said he was told to remove this Text that the game featured music Michel Jackson from the front and back of the box. Why? Sonic 3 was about to be released shortly near or after Michael Jackson Child molestation scandal. Kids loved Michael Jackson but sega was not going to touch this with a 10-foot pole and put him on the games box.

This would have been a mega-ton promo In 1993 michael Jackson still owned the world if you thought microsoftshalos market push since 2001 was huge ending with a HALO car and sodathis would have been bigger. The game would have been brought out with the power of sonic (who also was a super star in 1993) and Michael Jackson Who had enough fans to fill a small country. CD's and music videos on mtv with Michael Jackson in the future filled with the games songs in cd quality with Jackson singing was not out of the question.

Fan of Jackson who did not play games and herd of sonic might have gave it a try, cats and dogs living together in other words huge.

Why should people believe me about this? Most won't but I have herd it from the guy who removed it from the package and past showings of sega and Michael Jackson prove other wise it was possible.

Jackson has said he loves sega, has many of there products, they had the exclusive on the sega game "Michael Jackson Moonwalker" more partnerships was bound to happen and they did Michael Jackson showed up after his popularity went down hill in sega's "space channel 5" (though for some crazy reason sega did not say so he was hidden).

So what happened to the music Jackson did ? People outside sega say It was remixed by sega sound engineers and composers, to avoid legal action later. (the pc version was changed but this could have been because most PC in those days did not have sound chips and use CPU midi sound that did not work well.)

The legal reason speculation of the PC version is not true sega fully uses the game sound track in full even to this day unchanged for wii or other emulations of sonic 3. simple Midi from the PC is much different from the Genesis z80 based sound chip code. The problem laid at the way genesis made digitized voice samples at the time back then this was cutting edge sound tech that the PC build code did not support.

However for the sega genesis it was "sort of" Some of the music for genesis was changed drastically while others not so much a few did it you can tell the ones the engineers got, they did not change them much at all..

What did Michael do with the notes he scribbled down for sega and sonic team? Easy he released them as songs with vocals since as new songs the music stillrocked. (really I loved it many do that is why it was so good)

I am not musical by any means but hear a few songs such as "stranger in Moscow" made me want to play sonic 3 now I know why somebody had to point them out to me so I looked this up for other roomers.

Apparently other more "musically inclined people" than me spotted this right away and now that I know it is obvious. So I give you this video from one of the more musically inclined people that beat me to finding this out.

Yes just about everybody beat me to it including other workers at sega.....But I still enjoyed my talk with the box layout artist anyway , It's not a secret anymore but interesting and not everybody knows it was new to me today.

So for a shor tiem I thought I had hidden secret info from a sega worker of the past it turns out since other sega people spilled the beans a long time ago I do not..

As the class goes on I am going to try to get more out of this guy, maybe I will bribe him with aoreo cookie box tomarrow...

MAke up your own mind about it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbVM-l2Oku4