Well, after my first YouTube trawl, for cover versions of Portal/Jonathan Coulton’s ‘Still Alive’, got linked all to heck, I realized that the online video sites are getting so expansive and so difficult to filter that there’s call for a few more of these.
This time, in honor of Masaya Matsuura and Rodney Greenblat re-uniting to make Major Minor’s Majestic March for the Wii (the title of which was correctly leaked by Surfer Girl last month, for those doubting her contacts), I thought we’d run through the Top 10 moments centered around the Parappa The Rapper/UmJammer Lammy game series.
Though they never broke through in quite the way Sony intended, and some - even the creators - suggest the Parappa series (including spinoffs) suffered from diminishing returns. But the wonderful character designs, catchy music, whimsical lyrics, godfather-of-rhythm-game gameplay, and Sunny Funny stylings make the series close to many’s hearts - as […]
Original post by editors@gamesetwatch.com (Simon Carless) and software by Elliott Back
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