We have a message for fans of the Mushroom Kingdom. Please take a look.

Charles Martinet has been the original voice of Mario in Nintendo games for a long time, as far back as Super Mario 64. Charles is now moving into the brand new role of Mario Ambassador. With this transition, he will be stepping back from recording character voices for our games, but he’ll continue to travel the world sharing the joy of Mario and interacting with you all!

It has been an honour working with Charles to help bring Mario to life for so many years and we want to thank and celebrate him. Please keep an eye out for a special video message from Shigeru Miyamoto and Charles himself, which we will post at a future date

  • exoplanetary@lemmy.worldEnglish
    26·
    1 year ago

    Honestly that’s fair. Dude’s getting old, I don’t think it’s reasonable to expect him to voice Mario forever. I’m glad they’ve got him as an ambassador though, for now at least. I’d imagine he’ll help whoever next voices Mario get it right so his voice isn’t too radically different.

  • nostalgicgamerz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    1 year ago

    The man’s been doing the voice of Mario since 1995. Charles deserves a worthwhile retirement. It’s probably getting harder for him to do it at almost 70

  • Tapioca@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    1 year ago

    It’s sad. But hopefully, a chance for Nintendo take advantage of this to modernise things a bit. Wonder looks to have a bit more VO in it, and people have been speculating it’s a new actor.

    tbh he has to retire sometime, and considering the reaction to the movie casting this seems a sensible way to do it.