Mario's first ever actor
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If memory serves, they're from various stock cartoon sound effect packs and sample CD tracks. Some of them are by Mel Blanc but there wouldn't be a single voice actor.
SM64 is hardly the first time Mario was voiced, though! Earlier portrayals like Lou Albano's are still fairly popular.
But i do wonder if the stock sound effects are the earliest by date of recording, making one of those voice actors the earliest chronologically—or is that what you meant in the first place?
SM64 is hardly the first time Mario was voiced, though! Earlier portrayals like Lou Albano's are still fairly popular.
But i do wonder if the stock sound effects are the earliest by date of recording, making one of those voice actors the earliest chronologically—or is that what you meant in the first place?
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As bad as Hotel Mario is, I don't think Marc Graue should be left out in a list of Mario voice actors either, his performance is the reason his lines are still constantly quoted and memed today because damn is he so quotable.
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Per this article, the first voice actor for Mario was (very likely) Larry Moran, who voiced him in commercials for the Donkey Kong breakfast cereal. According to this other article, the commercials premiered in June-July 1983.
I said very likely because, as the first article I linked to shows, there was a Donkey Kong-themed album released in 1983 and someone found a newspaper advertisement showing that the album was at least on sale on 17 August 1983 (mostly meant to prove that it was available before the cartoon Saturday Supercade, where Mario was voiced by Peter Cullen, premiered) where Mario was voiced by Pat McBride (or possibly Leon Reeder - apparently the album credits Reeder as one of the vocals but McBride says he was the voice for Mario in it).
But y'know having a single advertisement showing that this album was available for sale on 17 August 1983 does not mean 'this is when the album was released', it could have predated the Donkey Kong cereal commercials (I know the first article I linked to says the Donkey Kong cereal commercials were in 1982 but the cereal only came out in late 1982, that's too late in the year to also have animated advertisements made for them). It's not like people were keeping meticulous records and copies of 'when did this children's album for an arcade game come up' for people decades later to easily research.
I said very likely because, as the first article I linked to shows, there was a Donkey Kong-themed album released in 1983 and someone found a newspaper advertisement showing that the album was at least on sale on 17 August 1983 (mostly meant to prove that it was available before the cartoon Saturday Supercade, where Mario was voiced by Peter Cullen, premiered) where Mario was voiced by Pat McBride (or possibly Leon Reeder - apparently the album credits Reeder as one of the vocals but McBride says he was the voice for Mario in it).
But y'know having a single advertisement showing that this album was available for sale on 17 August 1983 does not mean 'this is when the album was released', it could have predated the Donkey Kong cereal commercials (I know the first article I linked to says the Donkey Kong cereal commercials were in 1982 but the cereal only came out in late 1982, that's too late in the year to also have animated advertisements made for them). It's not like people were keeping meticulous records and copies of 'when did this children's album for an arcade game come up' for people decades later to easily research.