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Okay, so, a couple days ago I got a wild hair up my rear end and went "I wonder who the guy who yelled 'MORTAL KOMBAAAAAAAT' in that song was" You know, that song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAwWPadFsOA So I looked it up and it turns out this is a weird loving rabbit hole, so I'm asking for the aid of goons on this one, because c'mon. As soon as you read "MORTAL KOMBAAAAAAAT" that goddamn song popped into your head. It's possibly one of the most iconic yells in all of video gaming, even if it's not even technically from the game. Even if the guy who yelled it did only that and then dropped off the face of the Earth, he deserves some kind of commemoration for screaming the title of Mortal Kombat at the top of his lungs. If the people who first recorded the Amen break can get their due, so should that guy. WHAT I KNOW SO FAR The first known usage of the scream is in the "Mortal Monday" commercial, released in 1993. By all appearances, the usage of the scream in all works by The Immortals is sampled from this commercial. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eBn1z7i2u4 (scream comes in at around 54 seconds) A different scream is heard earlier in the video, which raises two possibilities. The first is that it's the earlier scream, performed by the guy shown on-screen in the video, pitched down. The second is that it's an entirely different voice actor, overdubbed on top. This would mean that the key would be to find whoever produced the commercial and ask them. However, there's another possibility that complicates things. The music heard in the commercial, while an unknown track, kind of resembles the track "Hypnotic House" by The Immortals a bit (this track was also available on the Sega CD version as a secret bonus). This raises the possibility that it was either Maurice Engelen (working under the alias of Praga Khan) or Olivier Adams who recorded the scream. I've attempted to get in contact with the latter, but to no success, so I'm thinking this is possibly a dead end. Does anyone have any idea who I should ask here?
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Very interesting topic so I decided to do my own digging as well. I did a google search for "guy who screams mortal kombat" and this was the eighth search result: "Tom Hanks yells MORTAL KOMBAT in the theme song" So it looks like it was Tom Hanks
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Aug 15, 2017 03:47
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:However, there's another possibility that complicates things. The music heard in the commercial, while an unknown track, kind of resembles the track "Hypnotic House" by The Immortals a bit (this track was also available on the Sega CD version as a secret bonus). This raises the possibility that it was either Maurice Engelen (working under the alias of Praga Khan) or Olivier Adams who recorded the scream. I've attempted to get in contact with the latter, but to no success, so I'm thinking this is possibly a dead end. Googling their super ancient website, it looks like The Immortals first work on anything to do with Mortal Kombat directly was the film, so it is unlike they were used in the advert. Best guess is that it is the second guy from the advert, in which case you're trying to find an extra from a cheesy commercial over two decades after the fact. So... uh... good luck with that.
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Aug 15, 2017 04:07
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You try asking Boon on twitter?
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Aug 15, 2017 04:10
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its me
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Aug 15, 2017 04:20
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Traci Lords.
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Aug 15, 2017 04:35
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Vakal posted:You try asking Boon on twitter? I did, but I haven't managed to get a response out of him. He'd seem like the obvious person to ask, but he also seems fairly busy.
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Aug 16, 2017 19:09
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You might have made Boon look for the guy too.
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Aug 16, 2017 19:55
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How random. Good hunting O.P
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Aug 16, 2017 23:59
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probably this guy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRLh41kvl5M
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Aug 17, 2017 00:15
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What about the guy who originally said "RESIDENT EVIL", with honorable mention to "RESIDENT EVIL...... TWO......"?
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Aug 17, 2017 07:57
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Forward this tip to Tosh.0. He'll find the (now old) guy in some retirement community, and make him yell it again at the top of his lungs to regain his glory days.
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Aug 17, 2017 21:16
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I thought it was Barney from Napalm Death. Didn't he do music for the movie ?
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