Part of me is thinking, "Why are we playing a 1998 Eurodance song by The Vengaboys on a column that features music composed and used in video games?" Well, apparently someone at Acclaim thought that this would be the perfect song to use in All-Star Baseball 2005 released on the PlayStation 2 and Xbox back in 2004. For the longest time, I only knew this as the song used in Six Flags commercials in apparently the same year that All-Star Baseball 2005 was released. I am unable to pinpoint who used the song first, All-Star Baseball 2005 or Six Flags, but I would assume that Six Flags used these Mr. Six commercials leading into the summer of 2004, and the game was released in March 2004. So it's possible that someone with Six Flags was tangentially familiar with All-Star Baseball 2005 and the music being used in the game and thought that it would be great as part of a new ad campaign leading into the 2004 summer. Is there some crossover between the board of directors for Six Flags and Acclaim? This is all just speculation because what do I know?
It does make me wonder who is influencing who and if there was another factor that influenced both Acclaim and Six Flags independently so that this song showed up in both All-Star Baseball 2005 and Six Flags commercials in the same year. Interesting to think about for about 3 minutes and 44 seconds.
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