Hip-hop heads call Jamaican toastmaster DJ Kool Herc an originator. When it comes to music, video games owe it all to a ...

PaRappa, the dog-eared character of legendary rhythm game PaRappa the Rapper, wasn’t always a dog. New early test footage uploaded by artist Rodney Alan Greenblat showed that prior to development on ...

PaRappa the Rapper’s name is kind of a misnomer: The stylish pup isn’t actually much of an artist. In fact, not only are his rapping skills pretty meager, but his two eponymous games might not be all ...

It’s been more than four years since the last time we had anything to report on Parappa, the rapping pup whose foray onto the original Playstation is credited as kick-starting the rhythm-based gaming ...

When Masaya Matsuura and Rodney Greenblatt were given the go-ahead with their first effort on PlayStation, Parappa the Rapper, the flimsy, 2D characters and happy-go-lucky rap music touched a warm ...

Returning from the feel-good 90s is everyone’s favorite paper-thin street poet, PaRappa the Rapper, in his first appearance on the PSP. A classic franchise and arguably one of the highest impact ...

PaRappa the Rapper holds fond memories for me. It was, and still is, a great advert for PlayStation doing different, offbeat things in gaming, but even then, it was an extremely limited game. So will ...

Guitar licks are a more satisfying match for the PlayStation controller’s face buttons than the purely beat-based matches of ...

Gabriel has been playing games since he was a kid. Loves most RPG games, platformers, and innovative indie games, and can talk for hours about how the first Fallout is the greatest game ever. He ...

Even though his name is Varnell Harris, he also goes by Bubba. Bubba has been writing for gaming websites since he was sixteen years old and always had a passion for it. Bubba has attended Miami ...

When the first Parappa game arrived on our PlayStations a couple of years back, we were drawn by the wonderfully stylised characters and graphic style, and subsequently hooked on the catchy tunes and ...

With the legendary cry of "I gotta believe!", a simple young anthropomorphic dog-thing changed the face of videogames. Parappa The Rapper brought the rhythm action genre to prominence on both sides of ...