@@IAmComicallyCartoonyYKnow sorry late reply and you might know this now, but the last line charles said in the mario universe is "these are my boys!" ffrom mario's dad
Just when we thought Charles’ first portrayals were in the educational and video board games, it goes back further to a PINBALL MACHINE! Crazy how there’s all this stuff out there, just not organized or talked about much to where only a few handful know and have seen some of the most obscure and unique things ever.
Not sure whether it’s the audio compression or not but it’s so surreal to hear Charles Martinet do a lower pitched and heavier Italian accent for Mario. What makes it weirder is that his portrayal of Mario has been so consistent even as far back as the edutainment games, it makes me wonder what voice he did for the audition. If his voice for the audition was more similar to what he did here, why would Nintendo be enthusiastic to have him as *the* voice of Mario only to tell him to significantly change the voice?
The reason for that change in Mario's voice is that when Charles Martinet did the audition, the voice he did when he first auditioned wasn't even anything like this more lower pitch version you're hearing in the video, but a much more gruffer sounding voice more akin to his Brooklyn one in the old cartoons. Nintendo thought the voice sounded "too scary" at times and thought it might scare off children so they told Martinet to make the voice a tad higher to make the character sound more friendlier. I guess from that point on, Martinet himself made the decision to go even higher on his own as his way of embodying the character more and making Mario more child-like and whimsical, which was the goal, I'm sure.
@@briannawilson8845I'd heard it was Charles _himself_ who had made the call that the original voice might be a bit rough for a kids' character. Fun fact, though, you can actually hear a bit of the Brooklyn accent leak through in the "I'm just about outta time" voice clip!
I wouldn't say it's significantly different. It's pretty much the exact same concept except a little bit more subdued. I'd say even in 64 he has some deeper sounding voice clips.
@@briannawilson8845 That's not how it went. If he had did the gruff voice nintendo would likely have told him to get lost. When he was auditioning he CONSIDERED doing the gruff voice but ended up doing the voice we have now.
I wonder if this was the voice that the people at Charle's original audition heard, that made them accept him. Or, if it is still more refined than that, as it truly is primitive here.
Thanks for everything Charles. This is his first notable role, but its just so sad to see him let go from his career. (Not completeley as he is Mario Ambassador, but still...)
@@MarioGamer2008 Check the MarioWiki- I asked the casting director for the game directly. No sourcable evidence of Charles saying this still exists, only accounts from other people- I have a direct screenshot from the game's developers.
@AndratVO he literally said that he did the voice for mario there he said he wasn't paid and went uncredited alot of people asked him this and he said the same thing he voiced mario in that wasn't paid yet still used his voice lines and went uncredited
@AndratVO charles voiced mario in the pinball machine yes he literally stated this before years ago he was unpaid and uncredited this came right of the man's own mouth lol why would he be lying
I came here to double confirm on Charles Martinet's game since Level Up Animation showed me Mario's FUNdamentals "That's a good move", I thought that was his first video game, but the Pinball game was his real first game but uncredited.
It's crazy to think Charles Martinet started voice acting Mario with this pinball machine and now he's finally retiring from voice acting with Super Mario Bros Wonder likely being the last Mario game to feature his voice. 30 years of voice acting Mario.
@@mrfox9090 if you listen closely it's just not him, you can actually hear more voice lines in the Japanese nintendo direct and you can hear that its definitely someone younger voicing mario
(*sighs*) Once again, Miyamoto claims Charles started voicing Mario in 1996 in Charles’s retirement announcement. What a lost opportunity to come out and say he’s been voicing Mario long before the N64. 😑
To be fair perhaps he's not aware of it since the stuff Charles Mario voice in before Mario 64 were only in the west and not japan, heck the Original Mario 64 Japanese release even lacked certain Mario lines, then again Nintendo like to pretend certain Mario content don't exist, like Mario Galaxy 2 or even Super Mario 3D-All Stars for that matter...
wow Mario sounded a lot different before Mario 64. In this pinball game, his iconic slightly high pitched Italian accent isn’t even as noticeable as it is in other games after this one.
Craig Brolley was the very first Mario voice. Charles Martinet first time voicing him was in the Windows, Macintosh Mario’s Game Gallery, then it was Super Mario 64. Then ihe started voicing him for a very long time until he retired.
I have a theory to how these sounds were ripped: Someone probably had one of these machines on Ebay for a high price and then somebody bought it. Eventually someone found a way to access the files and eventually get the sounds ripped out of it.
For people who have a hard time believing this to be Charles, this is very much the same voice Charles used during those early '90s Real Time Mario presentations. Presumably, Mario's voice went higher-pitched because Nintendo thought Mario should sound more exuberant. Martinet's first take on Wario was also different compared to the voice we usually think of.
I think a lot of the change was just Charles getting more into the groove and solidifying his portrayals. For example, Waluigi's debut in Mario Tennis 64 has him sounding a bit like the Waluigi we know, but deeper in tone and far less exaggerated (he was played by Charles from day 1). There's also Ryan Drummond's first time as Sonic in Sonic Adventure, as well as Jason Griffith's debut as the character at the beginning of Sonic X; both of which sound _very_ different from when they solidified their portrayals of the character.
It wasn't always Charles doing those, though. There was another guy named Stevie Coyle, they'd switch every now and then. This sounds a bit closer to Coyle's voice.
@@GuyWithThePie it's been confirmed by the game director of the pinball game that stevie coyle did do the voice of mario for this game. when you compare it to a may 92 mario performance Charles did, it doesn't sound alike at all, with Charles performance sounding pretty close to the Mario voice we all know
@@tapiocattundra Where was this posted? EDIT: Found the source, it was an email from the game's composer on the MarioWiki page for the pinball table. Turns out it was actually not Coyle either, but another guy named Craig Brolley.
And I thought Mario's FUNdamentals was the first game, in fact it's my (As a kid) first Mario game feature his voice except I did not know who Martinet is back then, he was in front of me in plain sight.
Nah, that's him; he confirmed so. It makes sense, tbh, as this is the happy-go-lucky Italian accent he stated to give to make Mario more approachable to children. Thing is, while this is really different from his voice today, you can definitely tell it's still Charles; he sounds here just the way he did in Super Punch Out
Do you happen to have the rest of the voices? This pinball machine also has Peach speaking and it is eerily close to the Samantha Kelly/Jen Taylor Peach voice, although that would be impossible since she never had that voice until 2000.
i kinda prefer charles old mario voice i think its fits him a little bit more then the mordan mario voice hes been doing since 1995 the old charles mario voice isnt to high pitch this early voice of charles is is a little bit lower so yeah this version of mario doesnt have a insanely high pitch voice if charles was chosen to voice mario in the mario movie (sadly wasnt :c) i would love to see him bring back his early sounding mario instead of is his super sonic high pitch mario voice but i would watch the mario movie if he still did the mordan mario voice it would still be cool but 0:31 makes me wish mario had this voice lol
Charles Martinet always rolls his r's when performing Mario and Luigi. Additionally the timbre of this VA' voice and the way he pronounces things like bumper is drastically different from Charles. While similar in spirit, to the untrained ear, this is not him.
I ripped these a while back from a rom of the table by recording them directly from the rom. How'd you do it? They sound a bit high pitched. Also, the burp and laugh are Mario surprisingly. You can tell because he lights up on the backglass when those sounds play.
According to other sources, which I can show you upon request, it is indeed him. (Not going to upload exact links of said sources, because of UA-cam shadow banning comments with links.)
Sadly he’s retiring, it was a fun ride. He will always be Mario in our hearts.
Came here just because of this 😭
He was the best Mario for sure!
@@NintenDylan64691he was THE mario
@@Karnage233 That's what I said.
@@NintenDylan64691 you said best, he just is mario, there’s no competition 😊
Thanks to this game, we can now confirm that Mario's first official line is “More money, please!”
Timestamp?
i would think its "Wow!" and it ended with "Wahoo!" in the mario movie.
Poetic. Appropriate. Foreshadowing. Whatever you want to call it lol
@@IAmComicallyCartoonyYKnow sorry late reply and you might know this now, but the last line charles said in the mario universe is "these are my boys!" ffrom mario's dad
I cannot find a single voice clip of the "more money please" line. I know it exists somewhere!
Just when we thought Charles’ first portrayals were in the educational and video board games, it goes back further to a PINBALL MACHINE! Crazy how there’s all this stuff out there, just not organized or talked about much to where only a few handful know and have seen some of the most obscure and unique things ever.
This doesn't sound anything like Charles though
@@WigWoo1 It may not sound like Martinet, but it's a dang good impersonation.
@@robbiewalker2831 It couldn't have been an impersonation because he hadn't done any voicework for Mario before this.
Mario's FUNdamentals was the first video game, but according to his wiki, apparently the Pinball game was his first real game but uncredited.
@@WigWoo1 It does, just like he hadn't refined the voice at all.
Not sure whether it’s the audio compression or not but it’s so surreal to hear Charles Martinet do a lower pitched and heavier Italian accent for Mario. What makes it weirder is that his portrayal of Mario has been so consistent even as far back as the edutainment games, it makes me wonder what voice he did for the audition. If his voice for the audition was more similar to what he did here, why would Nintendo be enthusiastic to have him as *the* voice of Mario only to tell him to significantly change the voice?
The reason for that change in Mario's voice is that when Charles Martinet did the audition, the voice he did when he first auditioned wasn't even anything like this more lower pitch version you're hearing in the video, but a much more gruffer sounding voice more akin to his Brooklyn one in the old cartoons. Nintendo thought the voice sounded "too scary" at times and thought it might scare off children so they told Martinet to make the voice a tad higher to make the character sound more friendlier. I guess from that point on, Martinet himself made the decision to go even higher on his own as his way of embodying the character more and making Mario more child-like and whimsical, which was the goal, I'm sure.
@@briannawilson8845I'd heard it was Charles _himself_ who had made the call that the original voice might be a bit rough for a kids' character. Fun fact, though, you can actually hear a bit of the Brooklyn accent leak through in the "I'm just about outta time" voice clip!
I wouldn't say it's significantly different. It's pretty much the exact same concept except a little bit more subdued. I'd say even in 64 he has some deeper sounding voice clips.
@@briannawilson8845 That's not how it went. If he had did the gruff voice nintendo would likely have told him to get lost. When he was auditioning he CONSIDERED doing the gruff voice but ended up doing the voice we have now.
I wonder if this was the voice that the people at Charle's original audition heard, that made them accept him. Or, if it is still more refined than that, as it truly is primitive here.
I love this pinball machine! The layout is so well done it feels like a Mario game while keeping the same feel as a Gottlieb table.
0:24 the weird kid in class telling everyone about his “special talent”
im jealous how the fuck
Thanks for everything mr Martinet. Your voice will be in my dreams forever
Holy shit Nintendo make up your mind when did Charles Martinet first voice Mario?
They seem to be completely adamant that it was Mario 64 but we all know the truth
He's been doing the Mario for years
Wow he sounds so weird, but it's still clearly charles
You can tell it’s Charles because of the way he says the word “game”
Man, I thought it was some guy trying to impersonating Mario's voice... But look, this is what the old Charles Martinet's Mario voice sounds like!
Thanks for everything Charles.
This is his first notable role, but its just so sad to see him let go from his career. (Not completeley as he is Mario Ambassador, but still...)
Charles :'(
0:28 mario ascends
This has been confirmed not to be Charles Martinet by the casting director for the game. Craig Brolley is the voice for this machine
What do you mean? charles confirmed that it is him he said he went uncredited dont spread misinformation
@@MarioGamer2008 Check the MarioWiki- I asked the casting director for the game directly. No sourcable evidence of Charles saying this still exists, only accounts from other people- I have a direct screenshot from the game's developers.
@AndratVO he literally said that he did the voice for mario there he said he wasn't paid and went uncredited alot of people asked him this and he said the same thing he voiced mario in that wasn't paid yet still used his voice lines and went uncredited
@@MarioGamer2008 So the casting director for the pinball machine doesn't know who voiced the game? Is that what you're saying?
@AndratVO charles voiced mario in the pinball machine yes he literally stated this before years ago he was unpaid and uncredited this came right of the man's own mouth lol why would he be lying
I’ve been waiting for someone to rip these from the game. Thanks so much for uploading these.
Charles Martinet’s first role as Mario.
Not actually, Mario was voiced by Craig Brolley here.
I’ve played on this pinball machine before as my local retro game store has one. It’s really neat to see these clips have been extracted
Sounds like Super Mario Advance's voice clips quality.
Mario sounds like Ed Wynn with an Italian accent in this one.
MUSTARD!?!? Don’t let’s be silly!
I came here to double confirm on Charles Martinet's game since Level Up Animation showed me Mario's FUNdamentals "That's a good move", I thought that was his first video game, but the Pinball game was his real first game but uncredited.
0:28 imagine you're in a run down warehouse and this is what you hear
Arrivederci, Charles Martinet.
That voice sounds so much more different than Martinet's newer outings. Very impressive.
Because it wasn't his voice in the first place.
I visited an arcade that had this pinball machine not too long ago. Pretty cool.
Finally someone posted the voice clips!
It's crazy to think Charles Martinet started voice acting Mario with this pinball machine and now he's finally retiring from voice acting with Super Mario Bros Wonder likely being the last Mario game to feature his voice. 30 years of voice acting Mario.
he's not in wonder :(
@@archivecbr He's left a massive library of Mario voice clips and Mario doesn't really talk.
@@JohnSmith-co1zv true but the guy who voiced him in the trailer isn't Martinet
@@archivecbr How
@@mrfox9090 if you listen closely it's just not him, you can actually hear more voice lines in the Japanese nintendo direct and you can hear that its definitely someone younger voicing mario
sad day
(*sighs*) Once again, Miyamoto claims Charles started voicing Mario in 1996 in Charles’s retirement announcement. What a lost opportunity to come out and say he’s been voicing Mario long before the N64. 😑
To be fair perhaps he's not aware of it since the stuff Charles Mario voice in before Mario 64 were only in the west and not japan, heck the Original Mario 64 Japanese release even lacked certain Mario lines, then again Nintendo like to pretend certain Mario content don't exist, like Mario Galaxy 2 or even Super Mario 3D-All Stars for that matter...
I haven't heard Mario's voice sound so Italian until now. I have a feeling that Nintendo kinda forgot over time about Mario's Italian origins
The beggining of a legend!!
I'm not sure what this thing is but it sounds pretty fun what he's saying at least.
Thank you for everything you have done Charles! Godspeed! ❤❤ 😢😢
Everybody thought it was Mario's Game Gallary, released in 1995.
I kinda wish this is what Mario would have sounded like in the movie.
wow Mario sounded a lot different before Mario 64. In this pinball game, his iconic slightly high pitched Italian accent isn’t even as noticeable as it is in other games after this one.
Martinet is now retired from voicing Mario guys 😔
Craig Brolley was the very first Mario voice. Charles Martinet first time voicing him was in the Windows, Macintosh Mario’s Game Gallery, then it was Super Mario 64. Then ihe started voicing him for a very long time until he retired.
I went straight to this video after hearing the news. 31 amazing years of Charles voicing one of the most iconic characters in pop culture history. ❤️
I want to have HD versions of these sounds
I have a theory to how these sounds were ripped: Someone probably had one of these machines on Ebay for a high price and then somebody bought it. Eventually someone found a way to access the files and eventually get the sounds ripped out of it.
For people who have a hard time believing this to be Charles, this is very much the same voice Charles used during those early '90s Real Time Mario presentations. Presumably, Mario's voice went higher-pitched because Nintendo thought Mario should sound more exuberant. Martinet's first take on Wario was also different compared to the voice we usually think of.
I think a lot of the change was just Charles getting more into the groove and solidifying his portrayals. For example, Waluigi's debut in Mario Tennis 64 has him sounding a bit like the Waluigi we know, but deeper in tone and far less exaggerated (he was played by Charles from day 1). There's also Ryan Drummond's first time as Sonic in Sonic Adventure, as well as Jason Griffith's debut as the character at the beginning of Sonic X; both of which sound _very_ different from when they solidified their portrayals of the character.
It wasn't always Charles doing those, though. There was another guy named Stevie Coyle, they'd switch every now and then. This sounds a bit closer to Coyle's voice.
@@GuyWithThePie it's been confirmed by the game director of the pinball game that stevie coyle did do the voice of mario for this game. when you compare it to a may 92 mario performance Charles did, it doesn't sound alike at all, with Charles performance sounding pretty close to the Mario voice we all know
@@tapiocattundra Where was this posted?
EDIT: Found the source, it was an email from the game's composer on the MarioWiki page for the pinball table. Turns out it was actually not Coyle either, but another guy named Craig Brolley.
@@GuyWithThePie Oh derp
Martinet is now retired from voicing Mario guys 😔
This is to Charles what SMB Wonder is to Kevin. It's gonna be interesting to see how the new Mario voice is going to end up in a few years.
Charles Martinet's first mario voice
And I thought Mario's FUNdamentals was the first game, in fact it's my (As a kid) first Mario game feature his voice except I did not know who Martinet is back then, he was in front of me in plain sight.
I think he had his voice in a few commercials before this game came out. I could be wrong on that though. For game appearances, yes; I do think it is.
@@Irreve-rsible Charles was also a dispatcher in the 1988 movie, the Dead Pool (a.k.a. Dirty Harry 5)
@@figment1988 I was more referring to his mario voice. I never knew that though, interesting!
idk why but at 0:28 I imagine Mario going down a water slide lol
I always thought he was yelling out "meeeeeeheheheee!!!"
Is this Charles Martinet? He’s now retired from voicing Mario.
This was his first time voicing Mario and Luigi
That's Craig Brolley, it's now confirmed
I kinda like this older voice for still sounding italian american and not just italian.
the score board seems to be what super mario kart or the pinball machine is referencing
This was the first voice of Mario before the video games
It was Charles’ very first role as Mario
0:28 legit I sounded like this when I was riding a roller coaster and entered a tunnel
Funny how Mr martinet never seems to mention this
Really do not think this is charles, but it's at least a similar depiction
Nah, that's him; he confirmed so. It makes sense, tbh, as this is the happy-go-lucky Italian accent he stated to give to make Mario more approachable to children.
Thing is, while this is really different from his voice today, you can definitely tell it's still Charles; he sounds here just the way he did in Super Punch Out
@@FlonominalDude Wait. The arcade SPO or the SNES SPO?
@@Toonrick12 SNES Super Punch Out. He voiced just about every boxer in the game
Why the fuck does this voice fit Peppino too
Could you post the invincibility star theme from this game? I can't find it online.
Do you happen to have the rest of the voices? This pinball machine also has Peach speaking and it is eerily close to the Samantha Kelly/Jen Taylor Peach voice, although that would be impossible since she never had that voice until 2000.
This was the first game Charles Martinet voiced Mario in, or Even the first game he was in ever
Actually, Mario was voiced by Craig Brolley for the pinball machine.
0:27
i kinda prefer charles old mario voice i think its fits him a little bit more then the mordan mario voice hes been doing since 1995 the old charles mario voice isnt to high pitch this early voice of charles is is a little bit lower so yeah this version of mario doesnt have a insanely high pitch voice if charles was chosen to voice mario in the mario movie (sadly wasnt :c) i would love to see him bring back his early sounding mario instead of is his super sonic high pitch mario voice but i would watch the mario movie if he still did the mordan mario voice it would still be cool but 0:31 makes me wish mario had this voice lol
I came here because of his retirement.
When did this release?
1992.
"Holy Macaroni..."
Sorta sounds like peppino
Is this really Charles?
Yes
If they ever make a new version, new lines:
It’s a me, Mario!
Let’s a go!
Yahoo!
Wahoo!
Here we go!
0:34 🤭🤭!!
Sounds more jollier
Hard to tell the audio is very scratchy
O SOLE MIOOOOOO
What if Super Mario FX existed?
voice lines wernt made until early 1996 or so
Rip
Charles Martinet always rolls his r's when performing Mario and Luigi. Additionally the timbre of this VA' voice and the way he pronounces things like bumper is drastically different from Charles. While similar in spirit, to the untrained ear, this is not him.
I don't know if this is Charles
But maybe if You heard the voice You might as well know it's him or not
Charles has confirmed that this is him
@@SoshiTheYoshi oh really i tought his first Game to have his Voice was a gaming galley not a Game in watch one,one which is a pc game You know.
I ripped these a while back from a rom of the table by recording them directly from the rom. How'd you do it? They sound a bit high pitched. Also, the burp and laugh are Mario surprisingly. You can tell because he lights up on the backglass when those sounds play.
This is 100 percent NOT Charles Martinet.
I'm pretty sure it is. You can hear most clearly when he says "game".
According to other sources, which I can show you upon request, it is indeed him.
(Not going to upload exact links of said sources, because of UA-cam shadow banning comments with links.)
it is, not everything was automatically perfect the first time you know
It is him. He confirmed it
Charles Martinet ruined Mario forever.
How so?