- It’s-a me, Mario!
It’s-a me, Mario!
Woo-hoo, let’s-a go!
Okey !
Ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow!
the voice of Mario for 26 years.
- [Interviewer] Now moving on to Luigi.
- Now on to Luigi, oh.
(laughing)
("Super Mario Overworld Theme" by Koji Kondo)
Hi, Charles Martinet.
I the voice of Super Mario, here we , woo hoo!
And Luigi too, Luigi number one, ho ho!
And Wario, have a rotten day.
Yah-ho!
You eat that garlic?
(laughs)
and I even Donkey Kong at one point.
Oh hoo hoo!
I am an actor and voice actor.
I gosh, 25 years of theatre.
Run along to your party!
Corporate videos.
Circuitry and semi-conductor processes.
A few film and television products.
Now beat it all of ya, now!
And then I the marvelous beginning
of becoming a voice actor and that's how I
with it’s-a me, Mario!
Mario first in 1981
in a game called Donkey Kong.
As it refined through the years,
it became Mario and Princess Peach.
Ah, the Princess!
And I along in 1990.
I actually an audition because I was
them as I walked in they walking out finished
for the day and I said, "can I read for this?"
And the guy at his watch and he goes,
"ugh, alright, in.
"You're an Italian plumber from Brooklyn,
"a character in a video game for Nintendo
"called Mario so a voice,
"make up a video game, start talking."
And I thought to myself, video game?
I don't anything about video games
and all of a sudden I hear action,
I go "hello, I’m-a Mario, let's a pizza pie together.
"You get some-a sausage, I’m-a go some spaghetti,
"we spaghetti and-a sausage in the pizza."
And he said, "cut, stop talking, there's no more tape,
"alright thanks, we'll be in touch."
And I that was, you know,
okay there's the door, we'll see ya later.
And he calls Nintendo, "I a Mario, I him."
And that 26 amazing fantastic years ago.
Hello!
Hello!
(laughs)
Whoo-pee!
Oh, this world.
The character for me the best in me
and so I love that.
Bing bing bing, (laughs)
I love things too.
I go to meet Mario fans
and I the most wonderful things.
You know, you're the voice of my childhood
or I with my dad, now I'm playing with my kids.
It's a way our family comes together.
Ya ya ya ya ya, ha!
Ah, pretty good!
Ah, this the memories.
Mama mia!
You just fun, you know?
That's my mantra for life.
Come on, let’s-a go!
Let's have more fun!
Bye bye, see you in my gameses.
Woo-hoo!