10 Crazy Celebrity Cameos In Video Games You Forgot About

2. Michael Jackson - Space Channel 5

Okay, so, either you knew this one already and it’s burned into your brain or I’m about to tell you about it and you’ll never forget it so it doesn't really fit with the title of this piece, but let’s talk Michael Jackson’s bizarre game cameo.

The Beat It singer actually reached out to developer Tetsuya Mizuguchi when rhythm game Space Channel 5 was almost finished to ask if he could be in it. Naturally the team jumped on the opportunity and Michael Jackson was featured in the sequel as Space Michael, the chief of Space Channel 5 and ally against the evil Rhythm Rogues. This is a bunch of polygons you do not want to miss. It’s somehow spectacularly weird, entrancing, and fantastic all at once. Weirdly, that same year the pop megastar would also lend his voice and mo-capped self to the fighting game Ready 2 Rumble Boxing: Round 2.

Man, they just do not make video games like they used to.