Michael Jackson secretly wrote the music for ‘Sonic the Hedgehog 3’

Sonic 3 was released in early 1994, which suggests any recording involving Jackson would likely have taken place between 1991 album “Dangerous” and its follow up “HIStory”, which wasn’t released until 1995.

One of the message board quotes in Todd Van Luling’s excellent new Huffington Post article, “The Michael Jackson Video Game Conspiracy”, reads, “Our long national nightmare of not knowing whether or not Michael Jackson worked on Sonic 3 without a shadow of a doubt is not yet behind us”. There has been long-drawn debate over blogs and forums about the music for the blue mascot were secretly composed by the pop star. He was also a big music enthusiast that was convinced that Jackson was linked to the 8-bit tunes heard in the game. Six composers are officially credited on the game, which was developed in a secure location in California’s Silicon Valley: Brad Buxer, Bobby Brooks, Doug Grigsby III, Darryl Ross, Geoff Grace, and Cirocco Jones.

But they also claim that the music they produced with Jackson is in the game, along with other tracks he had nothing to do with.

However, Sega still maintains they never worked with Jackson on Sonic 3.

If Sega is committed to denying that Jackson’s work made it to the final game, word from several of the people involved with Sonic 3’s is probably the best “proof” we’re ever going to get. “He asked me if I would help him with it”.

Around the time Sonic 3 was in production, Jackson was hit with child molestation allegations. Three of the composers have said that they did indeed work with Michael in 1993 to come up with melodies. Hector remembered it differently, indicating the scandal led to the deal’s disintegration: “We had to replace it all”, Hector insisted of Jackson’s music. Howard Drossin entered the picture before the game was finished to change up some of the music, but confirmed to HuffPo he didn’t rewrite the entire score.

It was during that visit, purportedly, that he was asked to write music for the game.

Hey, weirder online conspiracy theories (Nintendo burying E.T. video game cartridges) have been confirmed before.