Remember that ridiculous auction of all of Michael Jackson’s stuff? The one that got pulled a few weeks later when Jackson suddenly remembered he liked all his stuff? I do, because it had me scouring my couch for enough change to purchase his 87 arcade cabinets.
Now, a game collection says a lot about a person—for example, my game collection says that I am credit risk, and that my love for engrish alone probably qualifies me as functionally illiterate. But even with all those pre-approved Diner’s Club cards I could still never afford anything remotely approaching Michael Jackson’s ludicrous collection. So what do his games say about him?
The New York Times Gadgetwise blog attempted to answer that, with the help of some video game experts (anyone else probably would have stopped the evaluation at “he is some kind of perverted man-child”). And the conclusion?
…Well, he’s a man-child. But there are a few more interesting things to note:
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His extensive Sega collection doesn’t mean he’s a huge Sega fan. More likely Sega is a huge fan of him—remember Space Michael?—and gave him all those boxes gratis.
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The lack of wear and tear on the cabs says he probably doesn’t play very often. That’s cool, I have copy of Rule of Rose still in shrink wrap and I don’t get sued by children and Bahraini Princes nearly as often as he does.
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They also say he’s an indiscriminate collector, but nobody buys a Jaleco Pony Mark IV candy cab accidentally. That’s just a classic candy.
There’s plenty more of this sort of fun at the article in question. Note that none of them bother looking into Jackson’s ownership of a life-sized Lara Croft statue. Some things are better left to the imagination.
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