1992

Make My Video series

FROM: Digital Pictures

BEHIND THE MUSIC: Drunk with the power of CD storage — capable of holding hundreds of times more audiovisual data than floppy disks, the previous computing medium du jour — our forerunners sagely assumed that digitized video and interactive movies (versus, say, creativity and innovative gameplay) were the future. This game let you play director by mixing and matching a limited selection of grainy video clips to provide a visual accompaniment to songs by Kris Kross and Marky Mark.

WHY IT ROCKS: You mean apart from the fact that, unlike the musicians these games feature, we're still talking about said titles today? Sheer comic relief. See Power Factory Featuring C&C Music Factory, whose oddly lit, neo-industrial backdrops and diabolical close-up shots better suit a Saw flick than anything rated as suitable for consumption by Walkman-loving children. "Things That Make You Go Hmmm," indeed.

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