Nintendon’t: Make My Video – Marky Mark (Sega CD)
Below is a “final draft” version of the entry for Make My Video: Marky Mark & The Funky Bunch as it is scheduled to appear in the book Nintendon’t: 25 of the Worst Video Games Ever Made.
I have a love/hate relationship not just with this Sega CD game series but with Mark Wahlberg in general. I’d like to say that he’s simply yet another generic rapper-turned-actor, an actor whose entire career started because he refused to join New Kids On The Block and instead chose to rap about Sunkist orange soda without a shirt on, but I’m pretty sure if I said that aloud and actually meant it “Marky” Mark Wahlberg himself would hunt me down and beat my ass. Mark Walhberg’s rap career is something he flaunted like crazy when his debut album Music for the People was selling like hotcakes but now that he’s admittedly “grown up” Wahlberg has actually gone on the record to express his disdain for his previous musical endeavors, and for that I commend him. He lived like everything he was not in the 1990’s (or rather, in his words, “nineteen ninety motherfucking two”) and once he pulled his head out of his ass he admitted his wrong doings, starred in a few movies, and then threatened to beat up Saturday Night Live’s Andy Samberg because of his Mark Wahlberg impressions. Great guy all around.
