What a month, right? September 2025 was wiggety-wiggety-wiggety-wack, but we don't need to get into that. Instead we'll dive into the wacky world of Kris Kross: Make My Video, which released for Sega CD in 1992 as part of the Make My Video series alongside INXS and Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch. You can blame Thrak for this one.
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Tony: Make My Video: Kriss Kross was the second of three titles released for the short lived video creators series, with the other two featuring INXS and fucking Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch for some god forsaken reason. In it you use a video editor to piece footage to make a music video using Kriss Krossā top singles at the time, āJumpā, āI Missed the Busā and āWarm it Upā. There is an intro with a radio DJ that puts on some lame skits involving answering caller requests and then youāre thrown into the video editor. If youāre going in expecting an actual appearance from either Kriss or Kross outside of their music videos, prepare to be disappointed.
To call it a video editor would be generous, since all you do is press the A, B and C buttons to select a scene to put on the editing screen and use the direction buttons to select some basic filters to alter the video. The three video feeds play in real time, two of which are the most royalty free stock footage they could find and the third containing footage from the actual music video for the song you chose. I donāt know what else to say about this piece of software, you pretty much do everything within maybe 15 minutes and thereās no reason to ever touch it again unless you just really need to listen to the same three songs over and over again. After that youāll be sitting there bored, wearing your clothes backwards and wondering what the hell you wasted your allowance on.
The Make My Video series is a good example of shovelware created to capitalize off a popular license and Digital Pictures really āMissed The Busā making something worth anyoneās time. Make My Video: Kriss Kross edition will make you āJumpā from your seat, remove the disc from your Sega CD and āWarm It Upā in a fire. To put it in terms all of the hardcore Kriss Kross fans out there will understand, this game is wiggity wiggity wiggity wack.
Thrak: Make My Video: Kriss Kross is just one of these "gems" during the Sega CD era that takes advantage of the FMV capabilities to allow someone to edit an existing music video with one of the hottest new stars of the era, Kriss Kross! They're actually underrated, but I digress, this game isn't good. It's barely a game, with about 30-40 mins max of you trying to edit the video to whoever's specifications and it boils down to the worst version of Movie Maker you can think of, but it's thankfully short.
Aaron: I don't know what to say about this game. You're just making a music video for one of three Kriss Kross songs and you can add different effects, camera angles, and colors and try to make it as cool as you'd think a Kriss Kross music video would be. One of my least favorite parts of the game, which I guess is the "game" part of the game, is that you have to sit through the whole entire song as you make the video. You cannot speed up the song or skip any part of it. OH AND WAIT, you have to sit through the whole song a second time after you make your video so that you can watch your cool new video. OH AND WAIT AGAIN, if you don't use the requested effects or colors, you have to LISTEN TO IT TWO MORE TIMES because you have to remake the video using whatever the person requests and then watch your video again.
Unless you're a big fan of Kriss Kross, I wouldn't recommend this game. Especially since Kriss Kross music videos already exist.
Steve: FMV games are a curious relic from gaming's infancy. The industry needed to push the tech forward, but how the heck do we do that with what we got? Well, it doesn't get more realistic than live video, right? Just slap that shit on a CD and try to give people the illusion of that being what's going on, but whether it's Dragon's Lair or Night Trap, the illusion of real control is broken fairly quickly, and it doesn't take long to figure out why this kind of game fizzled out as tech marched on.
Developer Digital Pictures had their own series of these (Four in all!) on the Sega CD and while the premise is different than other games with this gimmick, it doesn't take long for our video editing career with Kriss Kross to come apart at the seams. Unless I'm just REALLY good at editing video, I felt like I could do no wrong stapling clips of prerecorded footage together. Everything I made for these people's requests was a rave. Or maybe it wasn't and they just really wanted me the hell out of there, because after a couple of requests they blew up my ass with compliments and rolled credits.
I won't be doing that though. I can say an attempt was made here, but I can only assume what happened here was that Digital Pictures got a plumb deal being able to make the same game four times for Sega. Even if they all flopped. Save your retro collecting money for something else.
Chris: I usually play games for an hour on my podcast.
I played this game for 20 mins.
Most of the time was me kinda fumbling through the UI. The premise of āMake My Video: Kriss Krossā is to help this Video DJ, Boyd Packer, with requests that come through (which is just you selecting the ālevelā). As an aside, I think the voice who does the intro to this game might be the guy who used to intro Saturday Night Live Don Pardo, but Iām probably wrong. So what are the requests? You have a couple of seconds to memorize still frames while someone yells into their ātelephoneā about how they want all these rad things in their video. And that's it, you just have to make sure you put those specific clips in the video. After you guess your way through the video editing software (which to be fair had some pretty cool effects), you get to watch your masterpiece play. As someone who generally hates looking at his own work, this was painful for me since you canāt even skip it! After thatās done, you get a zinger from Boyd and then they roll credits: every. time.
Is this something you NEED to play? Probably not. It was āfunā to listen to Kriss Kross again, and also realize they had more songs than āJumpā. The song was an earworm, this game is like running your fingers across the grain of one of those 90s ribbed Lisa Frank style cards - awful.
