Well, here’s another such story, told by turndownforwait, of someone doing it with Luigi, played by a player who also had the audacity to be a… a teenager. (gasp! 19 minutes)

Although I’m not really that surprised it was effectively a kid who did it? They have sharper reflexes than us fogeys, and also haven’t been so inculcated by decades of Smash Melee orthodoxy, the playerbase groupthink that only exists to keep hard-working plumbers down!

So, who’s next? Will it be Ness? Samus somehow? Kirby? Ha ha ha no not really likely, Kirby was so good in N64 Smash that Sakurai felt he had to stuff his beloved creation with pure Nerf for Melee. But who really knows? It’s starting to feel like anything might be possible. Let a thousand unlikely victors bloom! Or a dozen maybe; Melee doesn’t have that many characters.

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Sundry Sunday is our weekly feature of fun gaming culture finds and videos, from across the years and even decades.

A few years ago, former long-time voice of Mario, Luigi and Wario, and current Nintendo “brand ambassador,” Charles Martinet posted some amusing videos on Instagram, of him playing around with some figures of the plumbers and improvising their voices during his vacation in Chile. At the time I found them charming! I don’t know about others? The posts have been preserved here (10 minutes), but they aren’t the point of this post.

SuperStaticPro made some Source Filmmaker animations that repurposed the audio into little vignettes. I also like them, and they are the point of this post.

The first (1 minute):

And the second (also 1 minute), and also containing possibly my favorite Wario interaction of all:

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Sundry Sunday is our weekly feature of fun gaming culture finds and videos, from across the years and even decades.

Something of a follow-up to last week’s post, this one’s another of nathorz’s animations of Nintendo voices (1 ½ minutes), this time of perennial second-banana Luigi. Most are from Charles Martinet’s voicing, but there’s also Danny Wells from the Super Mario Bros. Super Show, and John Leguizamo from the first Super Mario Bros. movie. There’s also some voices I don’t recognize; I presume Luigi from the more-recent Super Mario Bros. movie is in there somewhere.

Some other of nathorz’s animations include sounds of Kirby, Wario, Yoshi and the Kong of Donk.

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Sundry Sunday is our weekly feature of fun gaming culture finds and videos, from across the years and even decades.

Since Mario 64, Charles Martinet certainly recorded a lot of noises for Mario and Luigi. If you look far enough (specifically, to the Mario & Luigi games for GBA and DS) you can find some entertaining random Italian-like sounds. Mayo on Youtube combined some of these noises with comical animation, to produce these very short (1/2 minute) videos.

Luigi:

Mario:

Together:

And with an unexpected intrusion:

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Here’s another image, from the main Supper Mario Broth site. Several spinoff Mario titles have promotional images for fake Mario universe companies used as background art elements. Most of the time these are used in the Mario Kart games. There were a few made for the original Mario Strikers, that went unused in the final game. This one appears to be for some kind of Bowser Support Hotline. Original post.

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