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| Um Jammer Lammy,
Sony Playstation |
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| Games,
Richard Young,
20 January 1999 |
Rating: F4
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Way back in 1994, Masaya Matsuura of Sony Japan created Parappa the Rapper, a small beanie-hatted doggie from the Playstation game of the same name who found himself having to literally rap his way into the heart of his flower headed beloved, sunny funny. Helping Parappa on his musical odyssey are such characters as a moose who is also a driving instructor and a Karate instructor who is also....an onion. Surreal maybe, but original and playable enough to become a hit. Parappa is, however, conceptually tame in comparison to many Japanese console titles which are never translated to UK machines. Games like Nec Interchannel's Debut 21, in which you manage the career of a female android pop idol by sending her through a futuristic charm school. Parappa's sequel, Um Jammer Lammy is due out this month and already looks like a winner, utilising the same control technique to trigger various guitar squeals and riffs for superstar rock heroine, Ms. Lammy. What's next for the music/dance sim genre? Already a huge hit in Japan is Konami's Dance Dance Revolution with its unique doormat style controller with pads for the player to step onto in time with the music, pushing the concept of the Enix dance sim Bust-a-Groove into the real world. Here's hoping more Japanese games developers will let us all boogie to the same beat. Groovy baby!
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