Parappa The Rapper’s Rodney Greenblat visits Japan
It’s been ten years now since PaRappa rapped his way into the hearts of many a button-masher. Still can’t believe it’s been ten whole years? I can’t either. I miss doing kung-fu with Master Onion and having driving lessons with Instructor Mooselini. So, with a decade’s worth of reminiscing, why not hook ourselves up with the video of the upcoming PSP version (uploaded by 87th)?
Anyways, to celebrate ten years of rapping, PaRappa the Rapper was welcomed in Japan with Rodney Greenblat, the game’s illustrator and visual designer. He randomly chose 70 fans from his blog site and invited them to a sit-down dinner (sorry, none of Cheap Cheap Cooking Chicken’s seafood chocolate cake was served) and some photo ops. Before the party, he was interviewed and asked about designing the visuals with the Japanese audience in mind. Here was his reply:
No, because the game was made completely in English. Even Matsuura-san (the gameÂ’s director) wanted to do it in English. I think Parappa really suits a personal machine like the PSP. Please show Parappa to your friends or kids that donÂ’t know about it yet.
Shameless advertising plug-in aside, the PSP version might be a port and doesn’t look a whole lot different from the original version, but I definitely wouldn’t mind having a portable copy of my childhood around with me. Good job, PaRappa. You can go on to the next stage now…
Via Dengeki Online
It’s been ten years now since PaRappa rapped his way into the hearts of many a button-masher. Still can’t believe it’s been ten whole years? I can’t either. I miss doing kung-fu with Master Onion and having driving lessons with Instructor Mooselini. So, with a decade’s worth of reminiscing, why not hook ourselves up with the video of the upcoming PSP version (uploaded by 87th)?
Anyways, to celebrate ten years of rapping, PaRappa the Rapper was welcomed in Japan with Rodney Greenblat, the game’s illustrator and visual designer. He randomly chose 70 fans from his blog site and invited them to a sit-down dinner (sorry, none of Cheap Cheap Cooking Chicken’s seafood chocolate cake was served) and some photo ops. Before the party, he was interviewed and asked about designing the visuals with the Japanese audience in mind. Here was his reply:
No, because the game was made completely in English. Even Matsuura-san (the gameÂ’s director) wanted to do it in English. I think Parappa really suits a personal machine like the PSP. Please show Parappa to your friends or kids that donÂ’t know about it yet.
Shameless advertising plug-in aside, the PSP version might be a port and doesn’t look a whole lot different from the original version, but I definitely wouldn’t mind having a portable copy of my childhood around with me. Good job, PaRappa. You can go on to the next stage now…
Via Dengeki Online
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