Pop legend Michael Jackson has died from suspected cardiac arrest at his home in Bel Air, Los Angeles today.  Despite being dogged with claims of child abuse for the last few years of his life nobody can deny that MJ has done more for pop music than anybody since The Beatles and that a true talent has been lost to the world.

Michael did have a foray into the videogame world during his career, with Sega producing a side scrolling beat-em up based on the Moonwalker film for the arcade, Megadrive and Master System, and it was actually quite a good game at the time.  What most people didn’t know however, and has been revealed by renowned games journalist Geoff Keighley’s twitter feed, was that the king of pop had the top brass of EA come over to his Neverland ranch a few years ago to pitch Thriller 2 to them as a videogame, which EA, probably very wisely at the time considering what happened in those following years, decided to pass on.

So next time you play Guitar Hero: World Tour, be sure to fire up Beat It! and have a blast in MJ’s memory.

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