Michael Jackson's Moonwalker began as a 1988 musical film before Sega turned it into an arcade and Genesis game in 1990, letting players control a dancing hero who rescues kidnapped children. Its digitised voices and catchy arcade audio became part of retro gaming culture, shared by fans who grew up with Sega consoles and later rediscovered the game through emulators and online videos. Today editors reuse the voices to signal old-school gaming, 1990s pop culture and playful nostalgia in short clips.