{"id":2212,"date":"2017-10-12T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/10\/random_the_voice_of_mario_once_rapped_as_dracula_for_a_corporate_video"},"modified":"2017-10-12T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T11:30:00","slug":"random-the-voice-of-mario-once-rapped-as-dracula-for-a-corporate-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2017\/10\/12\/random-the-voice-of-mario-once-rapped-as-dracula-for-a-corporate-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Random: The Voice Of Mario Once Rapped As Dracula For A Corporate Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[embedded content] <\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/tags\/charles-martinet\">Charles Martinet<\/a> is famous to Nintendo fans the world over as the voice of Mario, and has filled this role brilliantly since the &#8217;90s. However, it would be doing\u00a0Martinet a great injustice to assume this is the only thing he has done in his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2015\/09\/video_charles_martinet_talks_super_mario_maker_and_answers_your_questions\">illustrious career<\/a>; he&#8217;s acted on stage, in film and on TV, with movies such as <strong>The Game<\/strong> and <strong>Nine Months<\/strong> to his name.<\/p>\n<p>However, like so many actors, Martinet has some skeletons in his closet; roles which were perhaps taken for the money rather than any promise of artistic fulfilment or critical acclaim. The 1986 corporate video shown above seems to fit this description; in it,\u00a0Martinet assumes the role of a rapping Dracula, who rises from the grave to sing the praises of\u00a0ECAD Systems. Later in the video, he becomes the swashbuckling Sinbad and continues to rap about things like time-saving system solutions and <em>all that good stuff.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This may well be the best thing we&#8217;ve seen on the internet in the past year. No, make that the past decade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[embedded content] Charles Martinet is famous to Nintendo fans the world over as the voice of Mario, and has filled this role brilliantly since the &#8217;90s. However, it would be doing\u00a0Martinet a great injustice to assume this is the only thing he has done in his illustrious career; he&#8217;s acted on stage, in film and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}