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The logo for the website Milkcan.com, which hosted four special animated interviews.

Status: Found

Date found: 23 May 2023

Found by: Eric Yockey

Um Jammer Lammy is a rhythm-based video game that launched on the PlayStation on March 18th, 1999, in Japan. The story is about a guitarist named Lammy, who spends the duration of the story trying to make it to her band's debut concert. It was a follow-up to the video game PaRappa the Rapper, which was released on the same console in 1996. To promote Um Jammer Lammy, a website titled Milkcan.com was created. The website contained music, wallpapers, exclusive videos, and more centred around the game and its characters. Despite the website's old age, almost all of the content featured on the site has been archived. However, there exists promotional material in the form of animated interviews that were once lost.

Interviews

Milkcan.com was a promotional website for the game Um Jammer Lammy. McTV (Milkcan TV) was the second page on the website, where the viewer could watch three special animations. These animations were made exclusively for the website, not only as a way to advertise the game but as a way to advertise a new album titled Make it Sweet! In these animations, interviews are being held with each individual member of Milkcan, the fictitious band of Um Jammer Lammy. Out of the three interviews, they have been recovered, those being Katy Kat's, Lammy's, and Ma-San's interviews. The interviews themselves on the website were extremely short, only clocking in at under twenty seconds each.

Sources such as the PaRappa The Rapper Wiki claimed that characters Lammy and Ma-San each gave their reason to buy the album Make it Sweet! As the character Ma-San speaks in gibberish, it was unknown what her reason for buying the album was. Lammy simply thought that the album was good. The Wiki provided no sources for their claims, however, so prior to Lammy and Ma-San's interviews being recovered, no definite information on their content was available.

Availability

As stated previously, Milkcan.com was archived extremely well despite its old age. Although the Wayback Machine has archived the website from as far back as the year 2000, there are sources that claim that the website is much older than originally thought. Archived fan sites from the time of the websites launch point that the site was launched closer to June of 1999.^[1] The interview with Katy Kat was uploaded in 2010 and is in somewhat poor quality. Sources such as Reddit claim that all three interviews were once hosted on YouTube back in 2010, but were taken down.^[2]

On May 11th, 2022, graphic artist Rodney Alan Greenblat, known for making the visual style of PaRappa the Rapper and Um Jammer Lammy, uploaded the Katy Kat, Ma-San, and Lammy short interviews onto his YouTube channel, acknowledging their "lost" status on Twitter.^[3]

On May 23rd, 2023, upon the discovery of the arcade version of the game, Um Jammer Lammy NOW!, all three of the interviews in their entirety have been found present on the game's CD-ROM and have been ripped, upscaled and uploaded to YouTube by Eric Yockey (founder of Unit-E Technologies) rendering the interviews 100% found.

Gallery

A gif from Milkcan.com featuring thumbnails for the three previously lost interviews.

Video

An interview with Milkcan's Katy Kat.

An interview with Milkcan's Ma-San.

An interview with Milkcan's Lammy.

A rip of all the cutscenes from Um Jammer Lammy NOW! including the full interviews uploaded by Eric Yockey.

External Links

A Web Archive link to the Milkcan.com website. Retrieved 30 May '18
A page on the Parappa The Rapper Wiki featuring information about the interviews. Retrieved 23 Sept '20

References

↑ An archived PaRappa the Rapper fan website, detailing information about Milkcan.com. Retrieved 22 Sept '20
↑ A source from the PaRappa The Rapper Subreddit that claims the lost interviews were once hosted on YouTube. Retrieved 23 Sept '20
↑ Rodney Alan Greenblat announcing uploading the Milkcan interviews Retrieved 11 May'22

[1] An archived PaRappa the Rapper fan website, detailing information about Milkcan.com. Retrieved 22 Sept '20

[2] A source from the PaRappa The Rapper Subreddit that claims the lost interviews were once hosted on YouTube. Retrieved 23 Sept '20

[3] Rodney Alan Greenblat announcing uploading the Milkcan interviews Retrieved 11 May'22

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-'''UmJammer Lammy''' (also known as Um Jammer Lammy) is a rhythm-based video game that launched on the Playstation on March 18, 1999 in Japan. The story is about a guitarist named Lammy, who spends the duration of the story trying to make it to her bands' debut concert. It was a follow up to the video game ''Parappa the Rapper'', which was released on the same console in 1996. To promote ''UmJammer Lammy,'' a website titled ''Milkcan.com'' was created. The website contained music, wallpapers, exclusive videos, and more centered around the game and its characters. Despite the website age, most of its content has thankfully been archived. However, some content, such as promotional videos, remains lost.
+'''''Um Jammer Lammy''''' is a rhythm-based video game that launched on the PlayStation on March 18th, 1999, in Japan. The story is about a guitarist named Lammy, who spends the duration of the story trying to make it to her band's debut concert. It was a follow-up to the video game ''PaRappa the Rapper'', which was released on the same console in 1996. To promote ''Um Jammer Lammy,'' a website titled ''Milkcan.com'' was created. The website contained music, wallpapers, exclusive videos, and more centred around the game and its characters. Despite the website's old age, almost all of the content featured on the site has been archived. However, there exists promotional material in the form of animated interviews that were once lost.
-==List of Webpages==
+==Interviews==
-===Hot Chart===
+''Milkcan.com'' was a promotional website for the game ''Um Jammer Lammy.'' ''McTV'' (''Milkcan TV'') was the second page on the website, where the viewer could watch three special animations. These animations were made exclusively for the website, not only as a way to advertise the game but as a way to advertise a new album titled ''Make it Sweet!'' In these animations, interviews are being held with each individual member of Milkcan, the fictitious band of ''Um Jammer Lammy.'' Out of the three interviews, they have been recovered, those being Katy Kat's, Lammy's, and Ma-San's interviews. The interviews themselves on the website were extremely short, only clocking in at under twenty seconds each.
-''Hot Chart'' is the first page you can find on the Milkcan website. This webpage promotes the ''UmJammer Lammy'' arcade game ''UmJammer Lammy Now!'' Information on this game is scarce, as this port is considered lost media in itself. Thankfully, the webpage on ''Milkcan.com'' gives us more insight as to how the arcade game would've played.
-{{Video|perrow  =1
+Sources such as the ''PaRappa The Rapper'' Wiki claimed that characters Lammy and Ma-San each gave their reason to buy the album ''Make it Sweet!'' As the character Ma-San speaks in gibberish, it was unknown what her reason for buying the album was. Lammy simply thought that the album was good. The Wiki provided no sources for their claims, however, so prior to Lammy and Ma-San's interviews being recovered, no definite information on their content was available.
+==Availability==
+As stated previously, ''Milkcan.com'' was archived extremely well despite its old age. Although the Wayback Machine has archived the website from as far back as the year 2000, there are sources that claim that the website is much older than originally thought. Archived fan sites from the time of the websites launch point that the site was launched closer to June of 1999.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20011121131110/http://www.geocities.co.jp/HeartLand-Namiki/8551/new/news6.html An archived ''PaRappa the Rapper'' fan website, detailing information about ''Milkcan.com.''] Retrieved 22 Sept '20</ref> The interview with Katy Kat was uploaded in 2010 and is in somewhat poor quality. Sources such as Reddit claim that all three interviews were once hosted on YouTube back in 2010, but were taken down.<ref>[https://www.reddit.com/r/Parappa/comments/ep1ln8/i_need_help_about_the_site_httpanexsmecojpmilkcan/fftatdr/ A source from the ''PaRappa The Rapper'' Subreddit that claims the lost interviews were once hosted on YouTube.] Retrieved 23 Sept '20</ref>
+On May 11th, 2022, graphic artist Rodney Alan Greenblat, known for making the visual style of ''PaRappa the Rapper'' and ''Um Jammer Lammy'', uploaded the Katy Kat, Ma-San, and Lammy short interviews onto his YouTube channel, acknowledging their "lost" status on Twitter.<ref>[https://twitter.com/RodneyGreenblat/status/1524446885062365185 Rodney Alan Greenblat announcing uploading the Milkcan interviews] Retrieved 11 May'22</ref>
+On May 23rd, 2023, upon the discovery of the arcade version of the game, ''Um Jammer Lammy NOW!'', all three of the interviews in their entirety have been found present on the game's CD-ROM and have been ripped, upscaled and uploaded to YouTube by Eric Yockey (founder of Unit-E Technologies) rendering the interviews 100% found.
+==Gallery==
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+</gallery>
+==Video==
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+  |description1 =An interview with Milkcan's Katy Kat.
+|service2     =youtube
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+  |description2 =An interview with Milkcan's Ma-San.
+|service3     =youtube
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+  |description3 =An interview with Milkcan's Lammy.
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-===CH55 McTV===
-''McTV'' (''Milkcan TV'') is the second page on the Milkcan website. Here, the viewer can watch four special animations made specifically for the website. In these animations, interviews are being held with each individual member of Milkcan, the fictitious band of ''UmJammer Lammy.''  There is also a fourth interview with an "unknown" individual, although the website makes it quite clear that it's the character Chop Chop Master Onion. Out of the four interviews, only one has been recovered, that being of vocalist and bass player Katy Kat. Thumbnails have been recovered for the three other interviews, giving us insight as to what they may have possibly looked like.
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+   |id1          =lgLaBsG4Vuc
+  |description1 =A rip of all the cutscenes from ''Um Jammer Lammy NOW!'' including the full interviews uploaded by Eric Yockey.
 }}
-===English Dojo===
-''English Dojo'' is the third page of the Milkcan website. The purpose of this webpage was to help Japanese speakers understand the English lyrics of the Make It Sweet!/I Scream! soundtrack.  All a user had to do was click on the title of a song from the album, and it would take the user to the lyrics of said song. One side of the page would be in English, and the other side would be in Japanese.
-===Oken'n Roll===
-''Oken'n Roll'' is the fourth page on the Milkcan website. This was a special karaoke feature for the Milkcan - Make it Sweet! album. If the user had access to a CD Drive, they could insert a copy of their soundtrack for the game into their computer, and lyrics would pop up on their screen. The lyrics were in Japanese, so one could assumed that this page was for native Japanese players who had trouble understanding the English lyrics.
-===Shout!===
+==External Links==
-''Shout!'' is the fifth page of the Milkcan website. It was a way for people to share their thoughts and opinions on ''UmJammer Lammy'' or anything else related to the game. In order to 'Shout,' the user would need to put in their name, age, gender, email, title, and the most important part, their thoughts on the topic. There were rules that users had to follow before posting, which were stated below on the website:
-*No stuff that gives out the answers to the game, allowed. It just takes away the fun from those who are enjoying the game right now. If you just gotta write about it, Say so in your title, so those of us who don't wanna know can just skip it.
-*No fighting. We just wanna ask everybody not to write anything mean or hostile to any and everyone out there.
-*No plagiarism. If what you write and say belongs to someone else, just don't write it.
-*No business or commercial activities allowed. No trading of any sort allowed.
-*No election campaigns allowed. AND please don't start scouting people to any organization of any sort.
-*No pornography or any X-rated stuff allowed. We don't want our children getting any ideas.
-*If you think what you write might be against the Japanese law, try to refrain from writing it.
-*Last, of all, we just want to tell you all to be nice and have a great time.
-===Friends===
-''Friends'' is the sixth page to the Milkcan website. The page listed the affiliates to the website, such as an official website for ''UmJammer Lammy'' that was on the PlayStation website for awhile, but it seems that it was taken down as well. Other affiliates that were taken down include the Japanese Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) corporate website, and a link to the art developer's website, which is still active.<ref>[http://whimsyload.com/ The art developer's website who helped create the game.] Retrieved 30 May '18</ref>
-===Candy===
-''Candy'' is the seventh page on the Milkcan website. The page featured three different files that a user could print out: One is a flyer for the ''UmJammer Lammy Now!'' arcade game, one is art featuring Lammy's band Milkcan playing up on stage, and one is of a 'rare' American advertisement from a Playstation magazine.
-===Solider===
-''Solider'' is the eighth and last page on the Milkcan website. It serves as thanks to those who worked on the ''Umjammer Lammy'' soundtrack and Make It Sweet!/I Scream albums.
-==Availability==
-Surprisingly, the website is extremely well archived for its age. Although the Wayback Machine has archived the website from as far back as the year 2000, there are sources that point that the website is much older than originally thought. Archived fan sites from the time of the websites launch point that the website was launched closer to June of 1999.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20011121131110/http://www.geocities.co.jp/HeartLand-Namiki/8551/new/news6.html An archived ''Parappa the Rapper'' fan website news bullitian board, detailing information about ''Milkcan.com.''] Retrieved 22 Sept '20</ref> As a result, content hasn't been archived by the Wayback Machine is considered lost.
-==External Link==
 *[https://web.archive.org/web/20000304055549/http://www.milkcan.com:80/ A Web Archive link to the ''Milkcan.com'' website.] Retrieved 30 May '18
+*[https://parappatherapper.fandom.com/wiki/Make_It_Sweet! A page on the ''Parappa The Rapper'' Wiki featuring information about the interviews.] Retrieved 23 Sept '20
 ==References==
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-[[Category:Lost internet media]]
+[[Category:Found animation]]
-[[Category:Partially found media]]
+[[Category:Found internet media]]
+[[Category:Found media]]