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

  • Nukken
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    1 year ago

    He is 67 now, probably just decided to slide into retirement. Or maybe he’s having a hard time even doing the Mario voice as he ages.

    • zkfcfbzr
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      61 year ago

      I feel kinda bad asking this, but: How much work did he really do recording Mario’s voice? Unless I’m forgetting a huge amount of content, wouldn’t a 10 minute recording session once a year pretty much cover the last 30 years of Mario content?

      • @CluckN
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        161 year ago

        He’s a method voice-actor so doing a triple jump can be exhausting.