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

When Edios can't buy a review with advertizement money they make up there own... You know I have seen this in the past with Edios titles and I did not pay much mind until today. For years I would see a certain game publication mentioned in Edios ads, with things they said an go "humm I do not remember that magazine/.WEb site say that." or they would take a phrase from a preview and put a score. You know I used to think it was an advertizement mistake or something not I am not sure.

http://kotaku.com/gaming/kane-%26-lynch/kane--lynch-site-fibbing-about-reviews-scores-329529.php

As you can see here Eidos has been giving 5 star rating to kane and lynch in there ads!!!! and putting big name game sites quotes wich are fake or from previews! This is very real I have seen this in paper print ads as well not just on kane and lynch but other game ads they have done this just reminded me of all the times I have seen this.

One of the 5 star reviews quotes is from a fav site of mine gamespy they did not give the game 5 stars it got 3 stars (AKA a 6.0 what Jeff said). You can go there and see it for your self. Edios making up reviews for there games just add more fire to the fact that they may have been doing something in this gamespot issue. http://xbox360.gamespy.com/xbox-360/kane-lynch-dead-men/835256p1.html

The fact that Edios is staying silent gives even more reason to list them as part of this issue when there lies are right there in print if they are making up hype lies they what else have they done?

Convince some high management at cnet/gamespot that some workers should be fired?
Bribes? who knows.

How are they getting away with this? I am pretty sure there is some type of legal or publicationlaw somewhere that you can not make upstuff a publication did not say that is false advertizement

MY before launch Wii is broken anyway now . Just before launch of metroid prime 3 and i was going to get the game early from the sales people.

And it died the same way xbox 360's do and my xbox 360 has not died since it's launch in 2005.

This is the first nintendo product to ever brake on me in 20+ years and nintendo charged me to ship it even though it was under warranty Microsoft at least pays for shipping.Nintendo owes me big for having every one of the consoles they should pay shipping.

So I do not know If they code will be the same when it comes back and i do not know if the people i added from here already will still be there on my Wii to play mario stikers charged later when it returns from nintendo repair. Who knows what nintendo will do with it.

I am guessing it was heat and I baby the Wii and keep it cool, Since nintendo shoved all that junk in there with little air flow like the xbox 360 I expect lots of them to brake soon. Though when I got it i gave it a burn-in like I do my GPu's and CPu on my PC to make sure I did not get a lemon Wii cpu and gpu, and it passed 2 days running a game with no lock up

So I do not get it. why fail now so long after? If it was bad it would have failed at the burn in.

I am not happy Metroid prime 3 was whyI bought Wii if it is out I want to play it then not later. So not happy i cant even type.

And As I have thought The manager of the store sold metroid prime to me as soon as they got the box about 7 days before and since The wii is gone I have not played it so, that does me no good.l