Digitised master footage of Michael Jackson in Scramble Training, a 1993 interactive ridefilm for the AS-1 motion ride simulator developed by Sega.
Thought to be lost even by Sega personnel themselves, the above footage - all localised segments made by writer/director Hiroshi Uemura and Kenji Sasaki, as well as filmed scenes of Jackson - was recently found on a D2 master tape sold at a car boot sale in the United Kingdom, and kindly digitised by the Oxford Duplication Centre after an appeal on Facebook was answered by @Mechafatnick .
Read more about it here:
https://www.gamingalexandria.com/wp/2022/12/michael-jackson-in-scramble-training/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattgardner1/2022/12/09/incredible-lost-michael-jackson-sega-game-footage-uncovered-by-fans/
Timestamps for all sequences:
Introduction - 00:35
Takeoff #1 - 02:40
Takeoff #2 - 03:35
Ending #1 - 08:10
Ending #2 - 09:40
Ending #3 - 11:10
An extended, uncompressed cut of the full master tape can be found on the Internet Archive thanks to Gaming Alexandria, with extra Japanese version footage and sound test:
https://archive.org/details/michael-jackson-in-scramble-training-d2-tape-sega
Though this tape represents the first known preservation of the main video contents of the title, ROMs for its gameplay elements, motion data, and an introductory film especially filmed by Jackson remain unarchived. If any of these rare items are possessed by you - or even an AS-1 simulator itself - please do get in touch below!
