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Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (2004)
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Hideo Kojima originally wanted to use actor Kurt Russell, who portrayed the character Snake Plissken in the action films "Escape from New York" and "Escape from L.A.", as the voice of Naked Snake instead of voice actor David Hayter, who had previously played the role of Snake in Metal Gear Solid 1 and 2. After Russell turned the role down, Hayter stated in a 2016 Game Informer interview he was given the part only after re-auditioning for the role:

"I had to re-audition for Metal Gear 3 to play Naked Snake...I heard that Kojima asked one of the producers on Metal Gear 3 to ask Kurt Russell if he would take over for that game. He didn't want to do it."

The reason Hayter revealed this information at all was because of Kojima replacing him with Kiefer Sutherland as the voice of Snake in Metal Gear Solid V.

Russell revealed in a 2024 interview with GQ that the role was one of many throughout his acting career that he turned down because he did not want to financially or creatively expand off of previously-established characters created by different people for a completely different project, in this case, imitating Snake Plissken through Naked Snake:

"You got to understand that from my point of view, whether it's Elvis, or Snake Plissken, or Jack Burton, or R.J. MacReady, that was that project, that was that thing, you get into that mindset, you create that, you wanna make that world happen. [...] You don't just slide in and out of Elvis, you go to work on it, you refine it, and then you do it, and you get paid for that. I come from a different era. I wasn't interested in expanding financially off of something that we had created or that I had created in terms of a character. And I get business people, sure: "Oh, we could do this with that, we could do this with that, or we could do this with that." You know, and I look at it and I go "That's not written by John [Carpenter]. That doesn't smell right, John's not here to do this with, [...] I'm not gonna do that." Let's go do something new. Let's go do something fresh. Let's go create another iconic character rather than saying "What can we bleed off of this iconic character?" you know? You don't look at them as iconic characters, I mean like, you refer to them as that if they become that, [...] you're on a day-to-day, running it, having a good time and trying to make it work."
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Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams
Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams (2012)
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While the game's Project Giana Kickstarter campaign was active, voice actress Cristina Vee went to Black Forest Games' forums and offered to voice Giana for the game. While her offer was considered, voice actress Katie Leigh got the role instead.
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River City Girls
River City Girls (2019)
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Kyoko's flurry kick features her shouting "ora ora ora," referencing Jotaro Kujo's battle cry in the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure franchise. Kyoko's voice actor, Kira Buckland, is a noted fan of JoJo and previously voiced Reimi Sugimoto in the English dub of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable. Incidentally, Buckland would later go on to voice Jolyne Cujoh, whose battle cry is also "ora ora ora," in the English dub of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean.
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Clip showing Kyoko's "ora ora ora" voice clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uF27uHr-r3Y

Clip showing the "ora ora ora" battle cry as used by both Jotaro and Jolyne:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDNMnafLcTQ

Behind the Voice Actors page listing Buckland's voice acting credits:
https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/Kira-Buckland/

Interview with Buckland which mentions her longtime status as a JoJo fan:
https://jojo-news.com/2021/12/16/an-exclusive-interview-with-jolyne-voice-actress-kira-buckland/
Franchise: Sonic The Hedgehog
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Attachment On March 17, 2019, in response to a post on the Sonic the Hedgehog Twitter account celebrating St. Patrick's Day, YouTuber Jacksepticeye jokingly asked if he could voice "Irish the Hedgehog", to which the Sonic the Hedgehog Twitter account responded:

"Absolutely.

(We just need to create him first.)"

A year later, they made good on this promise, releasing a video titled "Irish the Hedgehog" on the official Sonic the Hedgehog YouTube channel. According to Sega, the character was designed by artist Mark Hughes, and the video included a "folksy" remix of the song "Escape from the City" from Sonic Adventure 2 made by Hyper Potions and Jun Senoue.

A few years afterwards, Jacksepticeye would return to the Sonic franchise to voice another character: the appropriately-named Jack from the "Sonic Prime" episode "It Takes One to No Place".
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Disney Dreamlight Valley
Disney Dreamlight Valley (2022)
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This game marks the final appearance of Pat Carroll as the voice of Ursula from "The Little Mermaid" (excluding the "Once Upon A Studio" short which used archived audio), as well as her final role in general, as she passed away on July 30, 2022.
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Postman Pat
Postman Pat (2008)
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Pat is not voiced by Ken Barrie or Lewis MacLeod in the game. Instead, he is voiced by Bob Golding (best known for voicing Milo and Max from the preschool show "Tweenies").
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Gex: Enter the Gecko
Gex: Enter the Gecko (1998)
subdirectory_arrow_right Gex 64: Enter the Gecko (Game)
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In the PlayStation version, one of Gex's quips is "I guess Bowser's on vacation?", referencing the main antagonist of the Mario franchise. Ironically, this line doesn't appear in the Nintendo 64 version of the game due to many of Gex's lines having to be cut due to storage limitations on N64 cartridges.
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Console Difference, Reference, Storage/Memory, Voice Acting
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Hotel Mario
Hotel Mario (1994)
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Metal Gear Solid
Metal Gear Solid (1998)
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Attachment Most of the voice actors were credited under pseudonyms since they did not know if the project was supported by the Screen Actors Guild. The only ones who used their real names were David Hayter (Solid Snake) and Doug Stone (Psycho Mantis).
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Wild Woody
Wild Woody (1995)
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Super Mario Bros. Wonder
Super Mario Bros. Wonder (2023)
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One scrapped idea for a Wonder Flower transformation was an eight-heads-tall, life-size, live-action version of Mario that hummed to the background music and exclaimed "Boing" when jumping. This idea was pitched by series composer Koji Kondo, but was scrapped due to it being "hard to see the connection between pre-Wonder effect and during Wonder effect. And it's hard to imagine the gameplay changing much by having Mario turn into a live-action, human proportion version of himself." However, this did end up leading to the Sound Off? badge being created to keep the voice sound effects idea in the game. Incidentally, Kondo provided the voice acting for all of the sound effects included while wearing the badge.
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Seaman
Seaman (1999)
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Super Mario 64
Super Mario 64 (1996)
subdirectory_arrow_right Mario (Franchise)
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The audio used for Bob-ombs, Monty Moles and Goombas in various games starting with Super Mario 64 is actually pieces of Mario's voice saying "Here We Go" after being pitch-shifted.
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Mario - Here We Go Reused Voice:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e4PUW0CQag

Evolution of Bob-omb voice:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sNA_6ooWGo

Evolution of Monty Mole voice:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grRBgQGYUqA

Mario Kart Tour - Monty Mole voice:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF2j5afew_w

Evolution of Goomba voice:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4vI4eYGUlo
Mario's Game Gallery
Mario's Game Gallery (1995)
subdirectory_arrow_right Mario Teaches Typing (Game), Mario (Franchise)
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Attachment Charles Martinet, the voice actor for Mario from 1990 to 2023, first officially voiced the character as part of a motion-capture Silicon Graphics interactive exhibition used at Nintendo trade shows (with the role at the time sometimes split between him and musician Steve Coyle). The first commercially-released product to feature his voice acting is purported to be the Super Mario Bros. pinball machine released in 1992 and produced by Gottlieb. According to Martinet when asked by a fan in 2018, Gottlieb "stole" his voice clips and did not credit or pay him for his acting. While the 1995 PC game Mario's Game Gallery is often cited as Martinet's first official role as Mario in a video game, the actual first credited video game to feature him as Mario is the 1994 PC educational title Mario Teaches Typing, where he replaced the DOS version's voice actor, Ronald B. Ruben.
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Gottlieb pinball machine voice clips and demonstration:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUdCd5x9Hrs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aLaj10XfxE

Summer Consumer Electronics Show 1992 demonstration of Nintendo interactive exhibition:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1t6iNG28zI

Charles Martinet 2018 question:
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/nintendo-pinball-mystery-solved-voice-of-mario-in-super-mario-bros-/

[Below additional links were contributed by VinchVolt]

TheGamer article naming the CD-ROM version of Mario Teaches Typing as Martinet's first time voicing Mario in a video game:
https://www.thegamer.com/charles-martinet-how-long-voiced-mario/

Kiro 7 article:
https://www.kiro7.com/news/trending/marios-voice-charles-martinet-steps-down/KM6ZTKNXI5FHNKBZKSWJ4EA3QA/

Destructoid gallery incorrectly listing Mario's Game Gallery as Martinet's first time voicing Mario in a video game; an update is provided at the start of the article stating that it was actually the CD-ROM version of Mario Teaches Typing (though the update misdates it to 1995):
https://www.destructoid.com/behold-the-first-mario-game-voiced-by-charles-martinet/

Behind the Voice Actors page for the MS-DOS version of Mario Teaches Typing:
https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/video-games/Mario-Teaches-Typing/
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