![]() Musician Masaya Matsuura and artist Rodney Greenblat came together in a relationship that crossed the Pacific, joining Matsuura’s Tokyo studio with Greenblat’s in New York City. PaRappa was created by two people who’d never made videogames before. A few years after that, he was designing his own music games, Chime and sequel Chime Sharp, which has just released on PS4. He bought a PlayStation the very next day, and three months later was writing for hallowed videogame magazine Edge. That was amazing to me it was a singular moment in my life.” “Games didn’t need to be about football, shooting, or driving, or killing, or space. “Suddenly a new world seemed to open to me,” he says. From when he landed on PlayStation in 1997, he showed what this new machine could do, mixing music, gaming challenge and a captivating art style to produce a whole new genre that many different people could enjoy.įor Ste Curran, who at the time was a lapsed gamer, playing it for the first time was revelatory. And there, along with his pals, Chop Chop Master Onion, Prince Fleaswallow, Sunny Funny and everyone, he looks as fresh as ever.īut looking fresh is only the start of PaRappa’s achievements. PaRappa the Rapper has featured in his own anime series, made a cameo in PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale, and he’s about to be remastered for PS4. One of gaming’s most beloved icons is a lovestruck rapping dog who’s just gotta believe.
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