![]() ![]() ![]() The zombie horror game series “Resident Evil” was made into seven films. ![]() Pikachu, Sonic the Hedgehog and Lara Croft have all gotten their closeups. It’s certainly not the first game franchise to translate its characters and content for viewing – rather than playing – audiences. Released by the same studio that produced the kid-favorite “Minions” movies, the new gambit may also be designed to appeal to Nintendo-nostalgic Gen X and millennial parents. Movie,” a new animated film, hits theaters Friday, featuring stars like Chris Pratt, Anya Taylor-Joy and Jack Black. ![]() fame, has rarely crossed over into television or film. But while generations have sent him bopping along under sunny skies, shimmying down pipes and eating very large mushrooms, Mario, of Super Mario Bros. Martinet, who not only is Mario’s voice, he was also on Matlock - another thing Nolan North hasn’t done.He is one of the most recognizable fictional characters around the world. As for any shortfall or disparity, it could be that some roles as Baby Mario (there were four in the Yoshi’s Island series, for example) might have counted? Who knows.īut Guinness is a citeable source and it says Martinet has done the job 100 times, so that’s good enough for me. Fans might more associate his first proper role as 1996’s Super Mario 64. Most agree that Martinet’s first Mario role, by date, was in 1995’s Mario’s Game Gallery, an anthology of common card and dice games for PC. I came up with 98 on IMDB (again: unreliable as a citation, but a good rule of thumb) and then 90 on Wikipedia (same caveat). I went checking other sources and databases - none official, it must be said - to see if I could count them all. Ultimate marks an even 100 times Martinet has appeared in a video game as the voice of Mario, per Guinness. It’s more noteworthy that Super Smash Bros. ![]()
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