Happy Birthday Rodney Alan Greenblat

Matt Hawkins
Aug 23, 2017 · 1 min read

You know, the co-creator of PaRappa The Rapper. Also, UmJammer Lammy!

Which means it’s the perfect time to pass along footage of UmJammer disc swapped with PaRappa 1

It works the other way around, BTW/FYI.

Everything you see is courtesy of CANINE RAPPAH, who seems to be obsessed with both games (and also messing with them as well)…

He’s also fond of the criminally underrated PaRappa 2

Though the original appears to be his favorite plaything…

There’s even some vaporwave to be found, of course…

And what better way to wrap up this post than PaRappa and Cheap Cheap cracking an egg into a bowl for an hour (an hour and five seconds to be exact)…

Actually, one more thing: today’s also the perfect time to republish the time I interviewed Rodney for Gamasutra, which is like over 12 years old by now, yet remains one of my all-time fave pieces.


Originally published on blog.attractmo.de; edits have been made that are Medium specific.

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