Dog of Bay

Sony’s Parappa the Rapper was the game that codified the rhythm game genre, a silly title featuring a hip-hop puppy. For a number of years, other developers tried to one up it by amping up its own weirdness, culminating in Dog of Bay, an early PlayStation 2 title from Marvelous. Dog of Bay feels like someone’s very specific fetish put in video game form. It’s a rhythm game featuring anthropomorphic dogs, though they aren’t really what people would refer to as “furries” – it’s more like regular humans wearing dog makeup and sticking on tails. As a result, it sort of feels like a canine take on the 80s Broadway musical Cats.