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OOF -- The Lies of Tommy Tallarico Exposed
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- čas přidán 22. 11. 2022
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We discuss the Tommy Tallarico revelations and his many lies from the latest hbomberguy video.
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Retro bit makes good products. I use their official controllers for my Genesis and Saturn.
this is the oof, with reverb as you said, it gives the meme oof
the milenial wilhelm scream
Can really recommend the Hbomberguy video, it's a bit on the short side though.
"Short video"😆
So Pat and Frank met at a strip club?
The funniest bit from the video for me was when Harris played that video of Tommy bragging about meeting Miyamoto, saying (paraphrased): "I met Miyamoto-san and we were both so excited to work together, and I was like 'I love your work on Mario and Zelda' and Miyamoto-san was like 'I love your work on, um'"
I about passed out laughing, even in Tommy's most delusional dream scenario that he's totally making up, he couldn't think of something that Miyamoto would be impressed by that he'd worked on. It was so funny, and so sad.
It's a tragic comedy of errors, in actuality..!! 🎭
I bet that's actually how the conversation went, Tommy's just too stupid to not know Miyamoto had no idea who he was and was trying to be polite.
He couldn't even say Earthworm Jim. How embarrassing.
Even fantasy Miyamoto couldn't even lie to him lol
I noticed that too. So funny!
I was blown away by Tommy pretending that Miyamoto was a fan of his and that he wanted to let Tommy produce weapon sounds they'd _base the entire game design_ on. That's clinical levels of delusion.
Addendum - It has since transpired that, aside from the obvious, there is an actual interview with Miyamoto from Metroid Prime's development where he cites the sound effects made early in the game's development (where Tommy would have been in charge) as _not up to standard_ and in need of replacing. What are the odds Tommy's studio used their usual cheap canned SFX library and was fired for it and that Tommy's unusually poor opinion of Metroid Prime was based on sour grapes?
Literal actual delusion. Tommy honestly needs professional help.
The best part about Hbomberguy's video is that it managed to get more views than every single official Amico video COMBINED within HOURS of it being posted. We're talking MILLIONS of views. This isn't something that's gonna go away, much to Tommy's chagrin.
Dude... the video just. Kept. Going....
...and my jaw just kept falling.
Might be one of the biggest stories of the year (the decade?)
His video was like, HBO-Documentary Films level of importance.
The two hours also went by REAL QUICK. I was shocked.
2.4 million
tommy counts them as his views. he counts all views from all vgl clips as vgl viewcount anyway.
HE JUST WANTED TO MAKE A VIDEO ABOUT A FUNNY SOUND HE LIKED! WHY DID YOU DO THIS TOMMY!
To quote Hbomberguy "He wasn't even on Cribs!" - glad to see Pat and Ian feel vindicated by this feature length documentary.
If the OOF video was your introduction to hbomberguy, then man, am I envious of the rabbit hole you're about to go down. Hope you've got your calendar cleared for the next month!
Oh.....fuck me I have noticed the length of his vids.... I am EXCITED tho:D
@@h3corptempbutevadinganass You're rolling a dice. Sometimes you get some great stuff, other times he gaslights you about dark souls games
Sent me down the golden one rabbit hole. I haven’t seen a more awkward muscle flex introduce me to how to man properly 😂
Check out his vaccine response video. It's even wilder
What other good HBomberguy videos are there?
I'm not being a smartass, I'm just asking what one to watch next. I'm mostly interested in scam busting and fake-people busting, like the Oof episode.
I'm more interested in those kind of videos than random video game deep dives.
Possibly this question seems lazy of me, and if you don't want to answer for that reason, that is completely fair.
I just saw you mention rabbit holes, and assumed you'd have some suggestions for other vids of his like the Oof exposé.
Thanks in advance.
I looked at his channel, but I didn't see any instantly recognizable rabbit holes. And I love bunnies.
Can't get over the fact that this guy's surname is Talarico, when Talarico is a Brazilian slang for "person who has sexual intercourse with a married person".
😂
Holy Sh*t!
name checks out💀
And the fun thing is that it barely scratched the surface of Tommy. They didn't even cover the "Yankee Hall of fame" claims and the fake white Lamborghini.
Or the real reason offices stayed open during the pandemic, because Tommy's CFO was charging rent so he can make that money on top of his CFO salary. Then the loans they took out paid back with interest.
I'm pretty sure his mom isn't proud either.
@@ccricers yup it was ppl with $ using it to make interest then bail. Never intended to make a product unless some mega investor bought it out
Is this for real? This is close to money laundrying!!
Fiero with a bodykit..
"It's not a lie if you believe it." - George Costanza
Saw the hbomberguy video. Didn't know any of the backstory, but as I was watching it, it was like seeing a giant house of cards fall to the ground. The way he begins by describing Tommy, and by the end of the video, proves that every part of that description was just another lie by Tommy, is masterful.
The Amico was supposed to be TT's greatest victory but it became his undoing. Like a bank robber who got away with it but can't resist going back for one last score.
Give him enough rope.
You forgot the hilarious smash review. He gave smash bros melee a 2.5/10. The best selling GameCube game ever 2.5/10. That he lies about, even though there is video footage.
He’d probably give Minecraft a 0.5, God of War a 2, Kirby and the Forgotten Land a 1, Final Fantasy Crisis Core a 3, and Elden Ring a -1, at this rate. Then deny he did it, but still say that any of the unreleased Amico games are far superior to any of those experiences.
Congrats to Pat & Ian, the ORIGINAL gaming racists! Can we crowdfund an award from Guinness to commemorate this feat?
I'll put in 10,000 dollars IN CASH (spits in the camera)
The racists! The actual gaming racists!
Their mothers must be very proud…..
Tommy really should hook up with Peter Molyneux to collaborate a masterpiece. Imagine what those two could accomplish together!
Plus “a Tallarico-Molyneaux production” is fun to say.
It would be the most fantastical, nonsensical and non-existent game ever! For $299.99.
My favorite part is him talking about the OOF sound effect in a way someone would talk about some masterpiece of media. He makes it sound like they spent weeks or months perfectly crafting this half second sound effect when in reality it was probably one of a dozen different sound effects that were whipped up in a day for a game time forgot. Hell, it might even just be sampled from a movie.
I've been listening to you guys for years and even I didn't realize how bad Tommy was until I saw Hbomber's video. I thought this was just another rich dude having his mid-life crisis and there was a time when Tommy wasn't so bad. Then again, it's probably due to his own myth making that I ever had an opinion on the man at all prior to the Amico.
That was my favorite part too. Just going on and on about a fraction of a second sound like it's a thesis paper or something. He's something else.
Was VGL and Earth Worm Jim a scam? RoTR? That's all I ever knew him for and I don't think that's a bad legacy. I'll have to see the doc.
One of the funniest things to come out of the Oof video is the comments from people who previously played in his VGL orchestras, because it becomes increasingly clear that these students practiced for a whole month only to be taken to this stage and find out some guy on a guitar is gonna be dancing around and playing over you for the next two hours. Imagine all that work and it turns out this total stranger you don't even know the name of i suddenly stealing the spotlight. It's just hilarious.
And imagine further still, not getting paid for the trouble!
The guitars often did not actually mix with the orchestra well. Perhaps that was by design.
The worst part is he almost got away with it. Nobody was taking the time to look beyond the face value Tommy was constantly spewing. Thank god someone paid proper attention.
In his guest appearance on the Mega64 podcast, Hbomberguy did say he had managed to get in contact with the employee whose daughter recorded the oof, so it does seem like that part of the story is at least true.
I remembered seeing G4 and some of the shows that included Tommy back when I was a kid. My two distinct memories of him was that house tour where the british guy hated his house. The second one was when he and Victor reviewed a voiced controlled game called "lifeline" and Tommy kept giving voice commands to the main female character to take off her clothes... What a role model he sure was
Tommy was certainly affable, but I definitely enjoyed watching the two of them. I think there was a fair amount of conceit that their show wasn't really meant for kids. Victor was always trying to get Tommy to tone it down... good times.
@@elus89loved that show ! Golden age of video games !
I watched the whole 2 hours and wanted 2 hours more 😳
I had NO idea that Tommy was as bad as he actually is.
He's not.... He's way, waaaay worse.
Did you know his mother is very proud of him?
The thing with Tallarico and his defenders in the retro circle specifically was that it wasn't just a case of Tommy fooling fans as much as there were enough people in the community that wanted to believe in the idea of him. A 90s composer and former video game television host (who had stayed semi-active with Video Games Live) coming back to create a throwback console and trumpeting it up as significant somehow felt special to a lot of people. It was to segment of retro collectors/players a rock star esque figure that (despite his claims otherwise) was seemingly creating a console just for them and marking it as something cool rather than just a quirky novelty.
People didn't look into his long list of lies and half truths because there was something emotionally satisfying about having him as the quasi celebrity with a history of accomplishments directly or indirectly telling them they were significant as fans (or in some dubious cases, "friends"). A lot of people were essentially taken in because int their minds a person of semi-notability validated their hobby in a public and consistent way.
That explains his fans, but how about the industries around him supporting his lies? What’s interesting to me about TT’s story isn't just what he did but that he got away with it while being around so many professionals. I guess it's old-fashioned nepotism.
@@ccricers calling out bullshit publicly isn't generally viewed as permitted in professional circles.
I'm sure he had doors just shut on him, that's why his career in that frizzled out. like a scenario, you hire him to do sound and you go for a lunch halfway to the project and notice the guy is just spewing bullshit out of his nostrils and ears and excreting even from his eyes on the plate through the whole lunch about how great he is.. you finish the project and tell everyone at the company picnic the ridiculous stuff he told you - you'll never hire him again but you kinda liked the other dude whatshisname joey.
@@lasskinn474 It's always (Joey) Kuras!
The thing is this was basically the John Romero Effect but on steroids, because the fanboyism was a drug for him. The difference between Romero and Tallarico it's that the first was just a guy which really believe he was God when the other was a devil in disguise.
@@TheSuperPlayer707 Funny, considering Romero is the Icon of Sin.
Tbh, if it hadn't for hbomb's video, I wouldn't have found you guys! I binged all of your amico coverage and have started just watching regular episodes of the podcast. I hadn't seen any Pat stuff since the AVGN nintendo championship crossover, it's so cool to see where you've gone in the intervening years. Ian is really cool too, you guys have such good energy on this thing. I'm glad Tommy Tallarico started this podcast. Your mothers must be very proud.
I remember TT giving splinter cell a low score because he had to read stuff in the game.
HBomberguy dropped a major BOMB last week, didn't he?
One of the best comments I read under the video was essentially:
"Tommy's cousin is friggin' Steven Tyler. Imagine that, for your entire life, no matter how much success you have making music for videogames, your cousin is in a hit rock band. He's ALWAYS bigger than you and what you do, and your family knows this. He's still always trying to boost himself up, and he will always have that hanging over him."
I'm not excusing his behavior, but as someone who always wanted to be a screenwriter, and who's cousin became an ACTUAL showrunner for a hit show on the CW... I kinda feel him.
(Though, I never dropped my cousin's name in any of the years I was trying to get writing work. I paved my own way with plays, and sketches, which led to bigger scripts. I also don't blatantly lie about personal accomplishments that can be fact-checked.)
Try not to feel *too* bad, cuz there are a few comments in the video since then that have talked about info coming out that heavily suggests Tommy *not even being related to Steven Tyler*
@@BIGBLUBLUR If it ends up being all bogus, I'll add a footnote to my OP. But, yeah, I've been hearing things since...
@@guyvizard549 It's wild. It was the ONE thing I was pretty confident about when I heard it, because "narcissistic distant relative of a big celebrity" explains so much about him.
If that ends up being totally confirmed that that was a lie too, we might have to start asking if his name is even Tommy....
@@BIGBLUBLUR I figured it had helped him get his foot in the door, years ago. watching him pull every little lie "tell" in the book. Waving around and pointing at his world record to break eye focus. Touching his nose, breaking eye contact while talking, it just goes on and on.
If Shigeru Miyamoto liked one of my games, i would remember exactly which game it was, what he was wearing when he said it, where I was, etc.
The way he said, "I love Mario, and he said that he liked my... stuff... all my stuff!"
I watched the Hbomb video thinking “I can’t wait for Pat and Ian to see this.”
Roblox offered an Amico and Tommy wanted a Switch
Tommy still holds one legit Guinness record - The biggest liar in video games .
He's got some competition for that one, unfortunately.
Billy Mitchell: "hold my hot sauce bottle"
I'm fairly sure that honour belongs to a certain _Mr TODD TOGERS._ 😂
@@TheHightower92 There is definitely some stiff competition .
todd rogers would like a word with you
Did you know he has a Guinness World Record for being the most prolific liar in the games industry? That one’s real!
Naw Billy Mitchell has that one.
that one is also fake, belongs to Todd Howard
He was offered 1 million and he wanted 100 million.
13:04 - Another reason you can't copyright short sound bites. They are so short you can't tell two similar sounds apart.
Tommy and Billy Mitchell should star in a New Sitcom called "Scam-a-Lot". Fridays on CBS!
While I'd like the video to win the best documentary Oscar I know Tommy would ask them to send it to him and claim credit.
Hi Tommy. I hope your mother's proud of you!
I have gone to Video Games Live every time it came to my city. I would often go with a group of friends and family. My younger cousin played in a junior symphony so she was really into it. I remember Tommy saying "Here is a new song just added to the set and we just learned last night!!!!!" and my cousin leaned to me and said "That guy is a liar, there is no way they just learnt that in a night" That always stuck with me and I wanted to share.
if it's an orchestra of professionals they play off the sheets pretty well. but what tommy actually does with them is he gets the orchestra/ensemble(not always a full symphonic orchestra that's another of tommys lies) that can do the show and sends them sheets, they go over it /practice with their conductor - tommy shows up the day before and they have a practice session. like, tommy doesn't need to prep with the entire orchestra and the orchestra is not tied entirely to the project, they just practice the pieces a few times at most off the sheets...
and after the show tommy runs with the money kthxbye
I have personally played the video games live show a few times. Professionals show up, the music is there on the music stands, we have one rehearsal (about 2 or 2 1/2 hrs), then play the show later that night.
I started watching that video an 3AM for some reason. Freaking hell , it just kept going and going and going and going and going and going. It was more engaging than most of the drama movies I've seen in the last year
I will NEVER get sick of seeing Tommy take these L's!
I just watched the “oof” video the other night and it was SOOOOO gratifying learning all of this about him
I wish I could forget I ever saw hbomberguy's video, to experience it again for the first time.
I could've not imagined the plot twist that was coming.
I love when my favorites cross over - hearing Pat and Ian talking about Hbomb and everyone dunking on Tommy is perfect. He is our Bob Kane.
Common sense told me from the beginning that you guys had this guy's number, I really don't get why people that have never met or know Tommy would defend him to the hilt even when the mountain evidence is so high. Then again you can’t teach common sense and I guess that’s what Tommy trusted his Amico dreams to… as Pat would say, Rubes!
I can imagine if they got that sound engineer guy, Joey or whatever his name is that was responsible for the "OOF" sound effect and told it's story of how it got made, then Tommy will get buried confirming one of his achievements an absolute lie and also the lier losing any credibility of him claiming ownership of the iconic sound thus allowing Roblox getting their iconic SFX back.
Talk bout Tommy's money laundering conviction
At this point i have to wonder if Tommy Tellerico is real or if he is a singularity of pathological lies shoved into a human shape.
If Tommy said the sky was blue I'd go out to check for myself.
People actually believe you can’t question a guy who plays guitar and claims he’s going to make a system that rivals the Switch?
Tommy would’ve been laughed off of Shark Tank. Plain and simple. They’d ask, “What’s your business plan? How do you plan to get x, y, and z done? Oh, you want your first unit to come out in a year and be manufactured in China? What’s the ETA to a prototype? Why don’t you have one yet? How many game developers have pledged orders?” Mark Cubin would’ve laughed them off the stage. “How much of your money have you invested in this thing?” “Well, I’m waiting for back….” “I’m out.”
It's very similar to the guy who just stole all that money from Crypto Currencies. They found phone records and text messages from the guy saying everything he did to get people to trust him was all an act because his image and percieved reputation was far more valuable than the truth. That's how scam artists operate. Like the old saying goes: if it's too good to be true, it probably is.
Tommy wasn't rich and/or talented enough to pull it off. Look at what Musk did with Daimler and the DoE, he played them both and was able to pay off the fines once he got caught. Now, however, the money is starting to dry up and the charm has worn thin so in a few years he'll be another Tommy.
There's a viral report going around from someone who worked under Musk for many years that confirms what most people already suspected, that a lot of time and effort spent at Tesla and SpaceX was simply employees trying to stop Musk from ruining things with his idiotic ideas and demands and feeding him their own actually good ideas in a way he could think they were his own.
He's the McDonald Trump of video games
Saw this first on (of course) Nintendolife's sister site Time Extension. The article says hbomberguy found the MTV Cribs video was really for a UK show called Gamer TV. They reached out to Tommy for comment too. 😆
An interesting question … rewriting history. People have always tried to do it in pretty much any field of endeavor. Is it easier in the modern age of the Internet … or harder? It seems like it should be easier because everything's digital and we've seen histories get rewritten in real time. Just change a few websites, silence a few dissenting voices, and boom! New reality. But clearly that was done before when things were all written in hardcopy.
My favorite example of the latter is The Road Ahead, that book from the 90s Bill Gates wrote. He said the Internet was a passing fad, although at this point only a few rare book collectors likely could prove it, because it was yanked off the shelves immediately while a new hastily-prepared printing was rushed to replace it saying the Internet was the biggest thing in the history of ever and of course he and Microsoft were totally meeting the challenges of a new reality head-on, and have been for quite some time.
It's a good example of the old-school "destroy everything written and pretend it never existed" way of rewriting history, and it happens to be one of the examples of someone attempting to do it where they weren't completely successful (largely because of the Internet admittedly) and because the consequences are minimal. A billionaire CEO had some egg on his face for a bit there, he clearly realized his mistake between the time of writing and the time of publishing, but no real harm or controversy arises from that.
I dunno if it's gotten easier or harder, just that the game is a lot older than the video game market. How you play it has changed in the past 30 years or so, that's all.
there was less copies before and less people who knew about a random event xyz before so it was a lot easier back then and people didn't travel far either so you only had to erase a thing locally.
lots of people thought more isolated aol like things were going to be bigger. social networks if you will.......
I feel like there's enough material that there could be a whole different 2 hour documentary....
I sold a boxed Famicom and disk drive to tommy on eBay years back. When the dev kit debacle happened there was a Famicom and disk drive in his video. I wonder if it was them?
Nah, Tommy's were handmade by Shigeru Miyamoto as a personal gift for excellence! 🙄😂
I will never understand the appeal of Tommy and the people who built a cult around him like the ones of Amico. I mean, he's not Baer, Miyamoto, Naka, Kojima, Romero or anyone who played important roles in creating videogames. Yeah, making sounds and OST is very important (i even enjoy the Terminator 2 music of Sega CD), but Tommy is not someone known for being a game designer for example, neither for previous consoles.
Maybe Tommy should be car sales man...
You might want to have another look at Romero :) "John Romero's about to make you his bitch. Suck it down."
@@rasz I'm very aware of Daikatana, that infamous ad are you refering and how bad was the final product. But at least was released (in a terrible state)
@@ProStriker92 Do you know he was fired from ID for playing doom all day instead of working?
@@rasz Yeah i remember reading about "not giving enough effort" at ID.
Well, i agree that Romero is not a good example, specially compared with the other ones i mentioned. His best years are too far away and there's way better game designers. At the end of the day, we have to look not only games are made by the developers, but also how commited are to their projects.
@@ProStriker92 Yeah John Romero is a bit of a douche, but at least I have more respect for him than Tommy any day.
Was watching this video a year late and found myself literally holding a copy of Cats Don't Dance as they brought up the "oof". Hmmmmm, lemme see here...
And this isn't even the victory lap!
It would've been better if it didn't have to get to this point, and Tommy could have been dealt with sooner, but it's nice to see him getting exposed to more and more people. I will definitely check the video out.
I heard Tommy was once quoted that he gets a great nights sleep by inhaling his own flatulence, after consuming his own patented bovine excrement, which he was instrumental in the manufacture of…
Kitty! Oh and after Hbomb's vidya I just had to know more so it led me to binge watch this entire playlist of Amico drama over the past few days. Good work keeping track of all this stuff over the years! 👍 I'm sad Harris didn't include the Yankee Hall of Fame nonsense because that shit was hilarious.
Joey did 90% of the work on Advent Rising and isn't even credited for it.
I heard Tommy tried to get Billy Mitchell as an investor & face for the company. They both have Guinness world records, but then Tommy started claiming he invented hot sauce.
Thanks for highlighting this. Even though i jokingly said “some British guy cut your lunch” when i tweeted this the truth is it’s actually a perfect compliment to the amico coverage by Patrizio and Ian. I say that because before all the hullabaloo about the amico i didn’t really know who the tommy was. I didn’t v watch that video game show he has in the two thousands and i has no idea he worked on earthworm Jim or messiah. Ironically With messiah i had been more aware of that game because of the involvement of a metal band called fear factory in its soundtrack. I had no idea what an egotistical, self aggrandizing self promoter tommy truly is until i saw H-bomb guys exposé. And the levels of his depravity are stunning. I had no idea there were so many layers to it. Most shocking of all was how it didn’t seem to require much digging to uncover. Nobody bothered before and most people either accepted his nonsense claims without question or they didn’t have time to listen to them at all. Tommy to his credit had amassed a small fortune off his grift and had he stayed in his lane his BS could have remained largely unknown. But he seemingly believed himself untouchable and kept pushing for that big last score to etch his name into history.
I like that the take away from the video is more than just “ oh boy, that Tommy d’amico..... what a scumbag huh”. It’s more about the world is full of Tommy Tallaricos who hog the limelight and take the credit while guys like Joey Kuras do all the hard work and are the unsung heroes who collect their paycheck and move on to the next job. Even in the work i do i see this a lot. I install solar systems primarily and a previous employer i has was a lot like Tommy. He’d sit all comfy in his air conditioned office making phone calls, telling people where to go and when a job was done well and a customer was happy he’d be the one notified by the sales company and would take all the credit and not even tell the workers (because excellence was expected i guess) but if something didn’t go well and a customer complained then it was suddenly all on the installer and he had nothing to do with it and was all too ready to throw the installer under the bus if he thought it would save his skin. Hell the USA has someone like that as el presidenté, a certain orange buffoon.
So are we not getting a new earthworm Jim?
The creator went down the Q anon rabbit hole so that's probably the end of that
I listened to that guys off video. He really lost his marbles near the end.... what is weird is how he claims everything cause it was done under his company. FFS I've been listening to the podcast since forever(like premove to castle contri) and I never heard of Tommy till Pat mentioned him and especially with the Amico bs. I didn't even know he worked on Earthworm Jim and I grew up on nes, snes and 90s/00s pc games. So he's not well known IMO.
His mother is very proud
🎶Tommy said that he was in the room where it happened!
The room where it happened!
The room where it happened!
No one else was in the room where it happened!
The room where it happened!
The room where it happened!🎶
(Sorry, I could not resist.)
"If I can prove that I never touched my balls
would you promise not to tell another soul what you saw?"
-Tommy Talerico
Finally a decent sponsorship, this is the type of stuff you should be doing ads for.
As of November 11th 2023, the "OOF" video has been viewed 8.6 million times.
The HBomb video felt like the prelude to the victory lap. We're still waiting...
It's always Joey!
That's gonna be my catchphrase for everything
What's more fun is how the cultists have tried to copium with it. I don't know who their supplier is, but it's cut with some _nasty stuff._
I hope their mothers are proud of them.
I don't subscribe to hbomberguy, but I found his Tommy video independent of this. I guess after watching this channel for so long, the CZcams algorithm just sends Tommy exposé vids my way.
Another situation that has a lot of parallels is the Star Citizen saga. Chris Roberts is another guy famous for working on games in the 90s who had a long layoff and a history of troubled productions and the Star Citizen game is still chugging despite very little progress. I'd love to hear your guy's opinion on that nonsense. Love the Amico coverage and it would've been cool for Hbomber to shout you out especially considering one of his themes in the video was people not being credited for their work.
Yeah. At this point Star Citizen can go multiple possible ways and most of them are pretty bad. The game will either force out an unfinished release, because they ran out of money again and couldn't keep the money train going. The game will continue to take money while doing the bare minimum to finish in order to continue getting money and never release, with dwiddling support. Or by some miracle decades from now when most people who cared about the game or either old or dead a finished game actually releases, but noone really care about it but the few who lost tons of money on it. I'm thinking the second due to the history of Chris Roberts and from the little bit i know about the game, it looks like a money pit that really has no reason to ever produce a finished product as long as whales and rapid supporters continously throw millions of dollars at the game while they dangle small levels of progress now and then to give the illusion that they are closer to a finished product.
Tommy Tallarico, a name from the 90s who made enjoyable video game soundtracks and the co-creator of Video Games Live. Now, he's turning into that guy the industry is trying to ignore, trying to forget exists. Yet he kicks, screams, lies, and constantly puts his face front and center so nobody forgets who he is and that he is important. He should run for President as he fits a certain party's modus operandi. Tommy Tallarico - - Founder of Intellivision, composer of Sega CD Terminator, Ferrari collector extraordinaire.
Ha! I started watching your coverage of this because of Hbomberguys video. The circle of life.
Same. I knew Pat only from some ancient AVGN video. Glad to see he's still going strong.
I wish Mike Kennedy could write a book about Tallarico-san and the Amico scam, he is after all a writer and he has his own experiences in the industry.
Brett Weiss is probably scraping one together as we speak 😅.
The oof sound was actually on a movie?! 😮 Wooow... these guys are legit journalists I tell you! This is HUGE! And he brags sooooo much about how he "made it" and how he perfected it... OMG... great find Pat! It's just a matter of time before we actually find out that Tommy never really made any soundtrack at all!
I believe he's credited for some work on that soundtrack.
@@vxicepickxv I checked the imdb listing for the movie (Cat's Dont Dance) and don't see Tommy's name in the credits anywhere, so take that for what you will...
@@milesdevinny5759 that's because it's just more tallarico defender BS. Tommy said it was created for Messiah, so how would it have ended up in a movie years before even if he had worked on it (which he didn't)?
I don't remember which movies but I have heard the 'oof' from roblox in multiple kids movies from the 90s
the oof video is how I began my descent into this rabbit hole and found this podcast
I really hope hbomber makes a follow-up video where he covers the Amico!
Does anybody know Victor Lucas' thoughts on all of this? He hasn't interviewed Tommy or even talked about him since the Amico was first announced.
Tommy's own words undid him again: He said that Vic would say nothing if it wasn't any good.
Even as a kid in the 90s, Tommy just struck me as a scummy guy. In magazines and on Electric Playground, there was just some sinister aura about him.
I looked through the comments on the H Bomb video and was not disappointed to see you, Pat.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!! Hope y’all are enjoying time with the family and friends.
When can I play my “physical” games????
Tommy is the George Santos of videogames
Pat and Ian talking about Hbomberguy? Worlds are colliding, Jerry!
I think the very end was truly the best part of hbomberguy's entire video. It may not be possible to block those that grab all the credit, but we should all take to heart the words about the recognition of the true creators and thank them. The little bit about the plight of early video game creators and female video game composers was enlightening.
The Ohio State University actually won a trademark on the word "The" earlier this year lol
I think the cribs segment was actually something from G4 that was parodying it showing off Tommy's house.
this is the oof, with reverb as you said, it gives the meme oof
the milenial wilhelm scream
You can copywrite any sound file regardless of length. For instance drum sample packs; you can't repackage another company's drum samples and sell them as your own. You can't repackage a single snare sample and sell it as your own.
Edit: It's the recording itself in this case that has ownership, not the word or phrase or onomatopoeia.
I'm going to take a close look at the "oof" recordings compared here. I do forensic audio so I will see what I can come up with. If it is the same audio file that was transformed digitally it can easily be de-summed and returned back to its original form. I should still be able to find if it was transformed with analog equipment, although it won't sum or null completely.
Idk about that because what if I made an oof sound and pitched it to sound the same. Can someone really come after me?
@@Krushak8888 You can create your own soundalike "oof" to do whatever you want with. You can sell the file, license the file, give away the file, etc.
It's not the sound that has a copywrite nor is it the word that has the copywrite; it's the recording itself that you uniquely created that has the copywrite ownership. If you create a soundbite that you recorded yourself or had recorded for you, then you own it even if that small soundbite is imitating an already existing one.
@@legacyShredder1 That's genuinely interesting. It certainly makes sense for stuff like drum sounds. It makes me think about the concept of "likeness" for performers. Anyone can play Hamlet but if a studio hires an actor with the intent of outright impersonation, like what happened with Crispin Glover in Back to the Future II, you're inviting a lawsuit.
@@atomicagegamer3693 That moves into different territories of law for sure, and realistically anyone can sue another person for damn near any reason regardless of right and wrong or legality.
With my initial post I didn't even begin to enter the realm of taking a recording and transforming it into something new (which is what those types of samples and soundbites are for,) because there are so many levels of legality and nuance to it all. I was really only addressing the fact that a singular sound recording is able to obtain copywrite.
@@legacyShredder1 I agree and your central point about the recording itself holding the copyright is an excellent point to make. I just remembered reading that Taylor Swift re-recorded some of her early albums to avoid conflicts with the record companies that held the rights to those recordings. I didn't even realize that an artist could pull that off but it makes sense. The record company owns a specific recording, it doesn't own the musical arrangements and the lyrics, so nothing stops an artist from making new versions.
Another quality podcast gents! Hope you both (and everyone else reading) have an awesome Thanksgiving tomorrow!
What about people in Europe?
Honestly I'd only ever heard Pat's name once before I stumbled upon the channel last week. But I've been subbed to Hbomb for years, of course have watched the oof video like 12 times. and when I saw all the Amico coverage you gentlemen have done, I rubbed my hands together with glee. I'm a big fan of Pat and Ian's straight shooting yet compassionate attitude. It's cool to see your reactions to his vid!
Now we will still end up seeing some people jumping through hoops to defend Tommy like there would be no tomorrow if it wasn’t for him just breathing.
The best part is how this sound only got publicity because it became an internet meme.
I almost got the impression its pathological, like he cant help himself.
I knew the Amico was a scam because Tommy didnt call it the Intellivision Tallarico
How is TT not under investigation for defrauding investors of the Intellirico Amico
Tommy is such a coward. He's been hiding behind his Dad's death for what...eight months now? My job gives you two weeks of bereavement, and then you're expected to get back to work.
Dalai Lama said "hi"
The video was a pretty funny watch