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A Chat With the Voice of Mario

Posted by Zonk on from the it'sa-him dept.

An anonymous reader writes "CNETTV.co.uk has up a video interview with Charles Martinet, the voice of Mario. Charles talks about flying out to Japan to record five games, including Super Mario Galaxy, and about his gaming experiences pre-Mario, which were made up of Pong, Pac-Man and Tank. The most interesting part of the video has to be when Charles discusses how he came up with the voice of Mario, which didn't exactly start off sounding like the Mario we know and love today."

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  1. How many lines? by jasonmicron · · Score: 3, Funny

    They flew him out to Japan to record "It'sa meeee, Marioooooo" & "Hello!"? Wow. I need to get into that gig.

  2. pong, pacman, and tank? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wow! This guy's been the voice for a bunch of great games. I wonder how long it took him to master the 'boop......boop' sound of Pong?

    1. Re:pong, pacman, and tank? by Frogbert · · Score: 2, Funny

      No, they only paid him to say "boop" once, then they doubled it up on the soundtrack... Cheap bastards.

  3. Re:Nice... by stevenvi · · Score: 3, Funny

    Is it me, or are the two chicks dressed as Luigi and Princess Peach quite hot?

    Maybe I'm just weird, perhaps a bit old fashioned, but a girl with a big bushy mustache doesn't do anything for me.

    (Further, the Luigi girl appeared to either be on drugs or need to use the restroom quite urgently.)

  4. Re:oblig by JCSoRocks · · Score: 3, Funny

    And you were like "no way". And then I was all, we pretended we were going to murder you. That was great.

    --
    You are using English. Please learn the difference between loose and lose; they're, there, and their; your and you're.
  5. Re:You know what I think? by somersault · · Score: 2, Interesting

    That would have fitted with the theme of popping mushrooms and jumping through fluffy clouds! Or are you forgetting U R MR GAY? I didn't even know whether to believe that one, but I picked up a copy of Super Mario Galaxy in store and the hidden message really is there.

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    which is totally what she said