{"id":69104,"date":"2018-12-15T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-15T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/12\/charles_martinet_receives_guinness_world_record_for_voicing_mario_100_times"},"modified":"2018-12-15T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-15T03:00:00","slug":"charles-martinet-receives-guinness-world-record-for-voicing-mario-100-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/12\/15\/charles-martinet-receives-guinness-world-record-for-voicing-mario-100-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Martinet Receives Guinness World Record For Voicing Mario 100 Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e0d9088130d1e\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e0d9088130d1e\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Charles Martinet\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e0d9088130d1e\/charles-martinet.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e0d9088130d1e\/charles-martinet.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Charles Martinet\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Charles Martinet is best known for voicing Nintendo&#8217;s iconic character Mario. Since 1990, Martinet has been providing the voice for this character and nearly three decades later he&#8217;s still doing it. Thanks to the recent release of <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/super_smash_bros_ultimate\">Super Smash Bros. Ultimate<\/a><\/strong> on the Switch, Martinet was able to reach a very special milestone.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Guinness World Records &#8211; the global authority on record-breaking achievements since 1955 &#8211; Charles now officially holds the world record for the most video game voiceover performances as the same character. To be precise, that&#8217;s exactly 100 performances as Mario, as of 7th December 2018. Here&#8217;s a look at the voice of Mario receiving the certificate for his achievement:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">With Craig receiving my record certificate <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GWR?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GWR<\/a> for most video game voiceover performances as the same character \u2013 100, as Mario \u2013 on 7 December 2018 upon the release of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SuperSmashBrosUltimate?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SuperSmashBrosUltimate<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/woohoo?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#woohoo<\/a>! Many thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Nintendo?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Nintendo<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GWR?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#GWR<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ICfKlK9hO1\">pic.twitter.com\/ICfKlK9hO1<\/a><\/span>\u2014 Charles Martinet (@CharlesMartinet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CharlesMartinet\/status\/1073644309755412480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 14, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Once again, it&#8217;s thanks to the recent release of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. We think it&#8217;s rather fitting he&#8217;s been able to reach this milestone with a game that is arguably one of the greatest Nintendo titles to ever be released and one that is already breaking existing sales records on all fronts.<\/p>\n<p><em>On behalf of the community here at Nintendo Life, we would like to congratulate Charles on this epic milestone.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Martinet is best known for voicing Nintendo&#8217;s iconic character Mario. Since 1990, Martinet has been providing the voice for this character and nearly three decades later he&#8217;s still doing it. Thanks to the recent release of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate on the Switch, Martinet was able to reach a very special milestone. According to [&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-69104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69104","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=69104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}