Maybe its me–maybe I’m the one with the problem. I admit I’m an old man, and I just don’t get a whole lot of this media designed to appeal to an “urban demographic”, and when I hear about projects like this, my concern and confusion only grows.

Criousgamer reported on the project in question called Ghetto Golf coded by a company called Illfonic out of Denver, Colorado. You play the part of Vonte, trying to make a name for himself in the world of golf by making impossible shots on a “golf course” in the middle of his Oakland neighborhood by using his assortment of spiked, and exploding golf balls, and his handy machine gun to get passed various urban themed obstacles. Hey, who hasn’t brought their “gat” to get the attention of the PGA–thats how Tiger did it, right?

I had to do a little more digging into this, and I found out that one of the founders of Illfonic is a man named Raphael Saadiq. Fans of 80s R&B may know him better as Charlie Wiggins–one of the members of Tony! Toni! Tone’!. Okay, thats cool. So I checked out Illfonic’s website. There, I found a section tagged as “Upcoming Sh*t”, where I found this statement. Quote: “Ghetto Golf is an upcoming downloadable multi platform title.We would like to tell and show you more and will as soon as we get our legal sh*t straight.” Wow, that statement is so urban, and so cool–Dolemite himself must have said it….

Look, as a black man and gamer, I’m pleased to see African-American representation in the gaming industry. We need a lot more of it. But can’t we see a higher level of professionalism here? Is that asking too much? Do we think for a minute that Capcom, would use that kind of language on their own site to describe an upcoming project for the world to see? Will Infinity Ward’s CEO take the stage at E3, and say “This Modern Warfare 2 is gonna be the sh*t, yo!” I think not.

I wonder if the Resident Evil 5 protest brigade will complain about this one as Vonte lands Birdies by banking shots off the passed out crackhead…