MC Lars has been performing for over twenty years, and has built a fanbase across the US, the UK and the rest of Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan. In addition to touring, he has performed at Carnegie Hall, South by Southwest, San Diego Comic-Con, Slam Dunk, Truck Festival and as part of the VANS Warped Tour. He has performed on stage with numerous artists, including Bowling for Soup, MC Frontalot, Wheatus, Say Anything, Gym Class Heroes, Simple Plan, T-Pain, Snoop Dogg, Nas, and Koo Koo Kanga Roo. His work includes collabs with a wide range of musicians – among them, "Weird Al" Yankovic, KRS-One, Sage Francis, Watsky, Mega Ran, Jaret Reddick of Bowling for Soup, Wheatus, the Matches, Kool Keith, Spose, MC Frontalot, YT Cracker, Schäffer the Dark Lord, Beefy and K.Flay. He has been featured on CNN, NPR, and MTV and has been profiled in Rolling Stone, SPIN, and Alternative Press.
Ryan Drummond is an American actor and performer, who is best known for his role as the original English voice of Sonic in the Sonic the Hedgehog video game franchise from 1998 to 2004.
In 1997, Drummond got his first television acting role as DJ Johnny Jam in an episode of the television drama series Baywatch. He would later appear in several other television shows, such as Two Guys a Girl and a Pizza Place, The Chronicle, The Invisible Man, Veronica Mars, Point Pleasant, Trauma, and Dual Suspects. In film, he made his feature film debut in the 2000 teen cheerleading comedy film, Bring It On as Theatre Boy.
As a voice actor, he has provided many character voices in various video games. In 1998, he became the voice of Sonic the Hedgehog in the video game series for SEGA, and he continued to voice the character for six more years until 2004. The video games include Sonic Adventure, Sonic Adventure 2, Sonic Heroes, Sonic Shuffle, Sonic Battle and Sonic Advance 3. He also voiced Knuckles the Echidna in Sonic Shuffle and Metal Sonic in Sonic Heroes and has also briefly filled in for David Humphrey as Shadow the Hedgehog's voice in Sonic Adventure 2.
Additionally, he also voiced Eliot Ballade in Blue Stinger, Insider in AirBlade, Bill Bardi in The Godfather II, J. Edgar Hoover and various other characters in Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth, Kevin Kertsman in Illbleed, Rick Arlen in Nancy Drew: Stay Tuned For danger, Pizza Boy in Twisted Metal 4, Sheldon in The Three Decoders 1 & 2, The Merchant in Evil Dead: Hail to the King, Jonathan Carnahan in The Mummy, Multiple Characters in Backyard Baseball Football and Soccer, Michael Kwain in Spy Fiction, Carter in Cold War, and he has recently voiced the Doctor character in Mafia: Definitive Edition, where he also did the motion-capture. His voice work can also be heard in Danger Girl, Undying, NASCAR Racing 2002 Season, Chrome, Rogue Ops, Duel Masters, Gangland, Scared Rings, and Guitar Hero: Van Halen.
Drummond has also voiced many of your favorite Halloween animatronics and decorations. His voice can be prominently found every Halloween season at Spirit Halloween, Halloween City, Home Depot, Costco, Target, Sam's Club and Lowe's. His most popular robots include: GRIMM THE SKELETON, BUZZSAW, NOZZLES, BAPHOMET and MR. SALTY (Spirit Halloween) and FRANKENSTEIN'S MONSTER, GRAVEDIGGER, BOOGEYMAN, SINISTER STEVE and THD-3000 (Home Depot). Just to name a few...
Cake Hoarder has been making content on YouTube for the last 4 years and has already made a big impact on the retro scene. He is known for is amazing collection of rare Nintendo game displays and promotional items, discovering an unreleased GameCube game prototype, and he has collected every NTSC North American Game Cube game released. Cake’s least favorite Nintendo character is Luigi, and he has proven this time and again by destroying Luigi toys and plush dolls every time he does not pull a special item out of a Nintendo blind bag; in a long running series on his YouTube shorts/TikTok.
Chris Kohler is editorial director of Digital Eclipse, where he leads the creation of the studio's interactive documentaries such as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection, Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration, The Making of Karateka, Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story, and the upcoming Tetris Forever. Before joining Digital Eclipse in 2020, he had a nearly 25-year career in the media where he founded Game|Life, the first video game vertical at WIRED, was the Features Editor at Kotaku, had features in publications such as Official PlayStation Magazine, Nintendo Official Magazine UK, Electronic Gaming Monthly, IGN, and many others, and authored books such as Power-Up: How Japanese Video Games Gave the World an Extra Life (Dover Publications) and Final Fantasy V (Boss Fight Books).
Chris Graue is a well-known music video director in SoCal’s ska-punk-pop scene. When he’s not repairing Gameboys on Twitch, he’s filming official music videos for NOFX, Reel Big Fish, Frank Turner, Goldfinger, The Bombpops, Suburban Legends, We Are the Union, Red City Radio, Scott Klopfenstein, and many more! Chris has recently exploded onto the music scene with “Lo(u)ser”, music with a digitally potent pop sound laced with ska beats and lo-fi chiptune blips. His song "No Hope" (featuring a reunion of Aaron Barrett and Scott Klopfenstein of Reel Big Fish) was in Kevin Smith's movie Clerks III, and he recently had a viral hit Luigi vs Waluigi music video “Me vs Me” on YouTube. When listening to Lo(u)ser, there is no princess needing rescue from another castle, there are no hidden chests to bomb into existence behind crumbled walls, Just a bucket of Red Vines next to a Sega Genesis where you play your youthful years away until you molt into your final man-child form.
Erik Braa is known as the Viking of Voiceover. He got his start in video games and has garnered success in all areas of acting. He is most well known as the voice of “Draven”, “Jax” and “VelKoz” in League of Legends. He has lent his voice to 100's of games, from Heroes of the Storm and many Blizzard titles, to The Walking Dead game for Telltale Games. You can hear him doing Audiobooks like "The Dragon Who Dabbled in Crypto" and Sleep Stories like "TransSiberian Railroad" on the Calm app, as well as Commercials and Promos.
Additionally, he has also voiced Wawlika & Pepoane in “Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail”, Swimmer's Papa in “SAND LAND”, Garr in “Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes”, Bertrand in “Unicorn Overlord”, Gallagher in “Honkai: Star Rail”, Sombron in “Fire Emblem Engage”, Fishmonger in “Return to Monkey Island”, Travis in “Triangle Strategy”, Allegro in “Lost Ark”, Kohga in “Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity”, Zelot in “Fire Emblem Heroes”, Cedar in “Action Henk”, General Mikiel in “Strider (2014)”, Harlan Fitzpatrick in “Law & Order: Legacies”, Marcus Kunchai & Guillermo Rice in “CSI: Fatal Conspiracy”, Lieutenant K'Gan in “Star Trek Online”, Taupy Toplan in “Sands of Destruction”, Major McKenzie in “Nick Chase: A Detective Story”, Xil in “Galacticare”, CDR Vincent Woodard in “Starfield”, Husband Painter in “Layers of Fear”, Porter in “Bendy and the Dark Revival”, Odysseus in “Asterigos: Curse of the Stars”, Tengis & Baxter in “Elex II”, Zhenlong in “9 Monkeys of Shaolin”, Andre in “Helheim Hassle”, Kwolok & the Narrator in “Ori and the Will of the Wisps”, Draven in “Legends of Runeterra”, Schaefer in “GTFO”, Alfred Burton in “Phantasmat: Remains Of Buried Memories”, Marlowe in “Bow to Blood: Last Captain Standing”, Knolan in “Battle Chasers: NightWar”, Spirit Tree in “Ori and the Blind Forest”, Muhummad & Juan de Marillo in “Assassin's Creed II: Discovery”, King Mohammad in “Assassin's Creed: Bloodlines”, and his voice work can be heard in NBA 2K20 - 2K23, The Hidden Expedition Series, Kelvin and the Infamous Machine, The Amaranthine Voyage Series, SMITE, BackStab, Street Fighter 6, MLB: The Show 17 - 23, Street Outlaws 2: Winner Takes All, Chivalry II, Magic Legends, Mystery Case Files: Black Crown, SpellForce 3: Soul Harvest, Command & Conquer: Rivals, Myths of the World: Fire from the Deep, World of Warcraft, World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth, World of Warcraft: Legion, Nobunaga's Ambition: Taishi, StarCraft II: Nova Covert Ops, Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, Neverwinter, and SimCity. Erik is pillaging sound booths everywhere! Cue the Horns from the marauding raiders! Here comes the Viking! The Viking of Voiceover!
Brian F Colin is an experienced Game Designer, Artist, and Animator with over 90 video game titles to his credit.... including the creation of some of the most-popular, highest-earning & best-selling titles in video game history! He has worked over 4 decades in the industry, (and 34 years as CEO of Game Refuge Inc.), and has been inducted into the International Video Game Hall of Fame. Some of his better-known games include: RAMPAGE, RAMPAGE WORLD TOUR, XENOPHOBE, ARCH RIVALS, PIGSKIN 621 AD, GENERAL CHAOS, STAR TREK VOYAGER: The Arcade Game, & DEATHSTALKER: The Spectre Files.
Joe Cain is a game/level designer, producer, and a former Sega of America lead/general tester with over 30 years of experience in the Video Game industry, from QA to Production and Creative Direction. He has worked with Sega of America, Atari, The 3DO Company, Digital Eclipse, Electronic Arts, App Ant Studios, GREE, IGT, and iWin. Joe was the lead/general tester on over 40 Sega Genesis titles including Ecco the Dolphin, Ecco: The Tides of Time, Eternal Champions, Disney’s Aladdin, X-Men, X-Men 2: Clone Wars, Sonic the Hedgehog: Spinball, Sonic & Knuckles, Taz in Escape From Mars, Shadowrun, Jurassic Park: Rampage Edition, Streets of Rage 3 and many more. Joe worked on game/level design and production on Gubble, Gubble 2, Disney’s Bonkers, Mort the Chicken, Disney's Tarzan: Return to the Jungle, Disney's Kim Possible: Revenge of Monkey Fist, Zaxxon's Motherbase 2000, Ruiner Pinball, Tiny Tank and many other titles. Joe has spent the last 20 years working on online games and worked on Pogo.com for Electronic Arts for 8 years!
A.J. Kirsch voiced & Mo-capped “Buzz”, the main character in the “My Career” mode of WWE2K19 & his voice can also be heard in WWE2K20 & Mafia: Definitive Edition. He is a host, MC, announcer, and commentator for live and televised events of all varieties; and an actor in movies, commercials, video games and television shows. A.J. began his career as a pro wrestler competing in the ring. His career has included such highlights as winning Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's "Rock the Promo" competition, making top four in season 5 of the reality show “WWE Tough Enough", wrestling on WWE and AEW TV, and getting back in the ring as an announcer for boxing matches, MMA events, and pro wrestling shows, including Oakland's underground wrestling phenomenon Hoodslam. He has also presented at the CES tech convention, is the host and PA announcer at other local NorCal conventions, and hosted the San Francisco 49ers stage at Super Bowl LVIII.
David Humphrey is an American actor/comedian who is known for being the original voice of Shadow the Hedgehog in the Sonic the Hedgehog video game series in the early 2000s. He voiced the Character in Sonic Adventure 2, Sonic Heroes, Sonic Battle, and Sega Superstars. He also voiced Jack Keane in the point-and-click adventure game “Jack Keane”.
Garry Kitchen is a video game designer, creator, and programmer who is best known for his work at Activision during the early years of the company's history. His career in interactive entertainment spans over 30 years, initially as a toy designer and quickly transitioning into a pioneer in the launch of the video game industry. From 1981-1995, Garry was an industry leader in the development of home video games. He has developed games for the Atari 2600, Commodore 64, Nintendo Entertainment System, and Super Nintendo Entertainment System. His port of Donkey Kong for the Atari 2600 was a major hit for Coleco, selling over 4 million copies. His other 2600 work includes Keystone Kapers and Pressure Cooker for Activision and Space Jockey for U.S. Games. He also wrote Garry Kitchen's GameMaker and The Designer's Pencil for the Commodore 64.
Kitchen co-founded Absolute Entertainment, Inc. with ex-Activision developers, building it into one of the leading video game developers in North America. Under his leadership, Absolute created more than 120 software titles while working with such leading entertainment companies as Nintendo, Sega, Sony, 3DO, Paramount Pictures, MCA, 20th Century Fox, and Acclaim.
Garry Kitchen, along with his brother Dan Kitchen and David Crane, founded Audacity Games in November 2020 to develop Atari 2600 games to be played on retro consoles. They plan to release these games as both physical copies alongside digital versions that are emulator-friendly. Their first title released is Circus Convoy, a collaboration between Garry Kitchen and David Crane.
Scott Dreier is the voice of Knuckles the Echidna in the Sonic the Hedgehog Sega video game series voicing Knuckles in Sonic Adventure 2, Sonic Heroes, Sonic Battle, & Sonic Advance 3. Other characters that he has voiced are Kai in Iron Phoenix, Constable Nathan Birch & Seaman Gene Henson in Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth, Jared in Spellforce 2: Shadow Wars, Ben & Paco in Runaway: The Dream of the Turtle, Lawrence in Jack Keane, and his voice work can be heard in Escape from Paradise City, and PAIN.
In addition to his voice-over work, Scott’s career includes television, recording artist, and theater. Some of his favorite on-screen roles include Harold the Herald on Disney Channel’s The Suite Life on Deck, iCarly, The First Family, Coop and Cami Ask the World, and ABC’s The Rookie.
Scott has recorded two albums and has been a featured vocalist for Pasadena Symphony and Pops and has sung back up for Barbra Streisand.
Dave Rivas has been a professional actor, singer, comic, and voice over artist for over 25 years. He has a growing fan base for his work as the voice of Joey Drew from the Bendy and the Dark Revival as well as the multiple characters he voices for Star Trek Online, primarily the voice of Va'Kel Shon, Captain of The U.S.S. Enterprise-F.
Additionally, he has also voiced Solo in “Strider”, Vasco Montez in “Beasts of Maravilla Island”, Dr. Lovebomber in “Reset Generation”, Abdullah Bakhoum in “Nancy Drew: Tomb of the Lost Queen”, Colton Birchfield in “Nancy Drew: Ghost of Thornton Hall”, The Master Alchemist in “Myths of the World: The Black Sun”, Gene in “Lucius”, Horseman Famine in “Heroes of Newerth”, Grymlok & Valdane in “Dungeon Lords”, Gray Samuels in “Conduit 2”, Chuck Downfield in ”Backyard Football”, Rutger & Joshua Nakayama Smith in “Runaway: A Road Adventure” & “Runaway 2: The Dream of the Turtle”, J.J. Sawyer in “AirBlade”, Frogger, Dr. Starkenstein, & King Ijnek in “Frogger: The Great Quest”, Skypolice in “Rochard”, Brink & Miner in “Torchlight”, Dr. Ohm, Black Ice, & Jack Flash in “Champions Online”, Ancoron, Hamlock, & Neisbeck Foreman in “Drakensang: The Dark Eye”, Napalm in “Escape from Paradise City”, Murphy in “Jack Keane”, Jandrim in “Spellforce 2: Shadow Wars”, Zadok Allen & Lance Corp Norman Flynn in “Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth”, Ivan in “Cold War”, Bazooka in “Gangland”, and his voice work can be heard in Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Tabula Rasa, High Seize, Duel Masters, Rogue Ops, Chrome, Backyard Baseball, Burnout, Magic: Legends, Earthrise, Ghost Pirates of Vooju Island, PAIN, Caesar IV, ATV Quad Frenzy, Pathway to Glory, Humvee Assault, Backyard Soccer, Gunship!, and Dungeons & Dragons: Neverwinter.
Mega Ran is an American underground nerdcore rapper, chiptune DJ, author and record producer. He has had music featured in video games including Mighty No.9, Crypt of the Necrodancer, Mortal Kombat 11, Mortal Kombat 1, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge, River City Girls 2, and Yellow Taxi Goes Vroom.
A former middle school teacher, Mega Ran blends education, hip-hop, video games, and pop culture in amazing new ways, penetrating the farthest reaches of the galaxy with his unique rhyme style and electric performances. Ran’s music has been shared on stages across the world, on television (ABC/NBC News, ESPN, Portlandia, Tosh.O, WWE Wrestling) and on Billboard, where four of his albums have placed on the Top 200 list. His musical resume boasts collaborations with legends like Del The Funky Homosapien, MURS, Kool Keith, and Young RJ of the group Slum Village.
Today, Mega Ran is no longer a teacher by title, but maintains a rigorous touring and recording schedule, traveling the world playing rap shows, DJing and striving to entertain and educate at the same time.
Yoshi Vu is a seasoned artist with a broad range of skills who has served in various roles throughout his career, from Concept Artist, to Designer, to Senior Generalist on various film and television projects including Star Wars (The Mandalorian, Rise of Skywalker, Obi-Wan), Marvel (Agents of Shield, Hawkeye, Runaways), Love+Death+Robots, The Walking Dead, The Orville, Preacher, Invincible and others. He has worked on a number of videogame projects as well, including League of Legends Odyssey, Call of Duty: Black Ops 3, and Destiny 2. When not working on mainstream projects, he assists with various Indie/YouTube creators including AVGN, Game Sack, Game Chasers, Pat the NES Punk, Gaming Historian and others.
A devoted geek at heart, Yoshi enjoys collecting "crew jackets and credits" from his favorite properties. Over the past decade, he has worked at a senior level, making significant contributions to iconic scenes and designs such as the Death Star II ruins for Rise of Skywalker, the ship from League of Legends: Odyssey, and numerous designs for Invincible, among many others. Yoshi is still on his journey to expand his collection, adding new properties and experiences to his portfolio. He is currently striving for artist recognition, hoping that fans of various pop-culture properties will begin to recognize the individuals behind them.
Ed Annunziata is most famously known as the creator of the Sega Genesis classic "Ecco the Dolphin". During his time with Sega of America, he developed some of the most popular titles on their consoles including the Sega Genesis, Sega 32X, and Sega Saturn. Ed was the Producer and Director of many well-known classics of the 90s, including X-men, X-men 2: The Clone Wars, Spiderman, Chakan the Forever Man, Kolibri and more!
After leaving Sega, he worked on a variety of other platforms including Playstation, N-Gage, and mobile/iOS. Currently, he runs his own company called Playchemy where he develops new video games and their most recent release is Space War Arena on the Nintendo Switch.
David Crane is one of the most successful designers of entertainment software in the world. His award-winning video games, led by Pitfall!, Ghostbusters, A Boy and His Blob, and Amazing Tennis are acknowledged as some of the most innovative and popular in the interactive entertainment industry. Crane, a founder of Activision in 1979 & Absolute Entertainment in 1986, has consistently produced superb products, as evidenced by his worldwide sales of over 10 million games and wholesale revenues near 200 million dollars. Prior to his days at Activision, Crane was employed at Atari, where he wrote such hits as Outlaw, Slot Machine and Canyon Bomber. He was also instrumental in the design of the Atari 800 computer's operating system.
Crane's industry awards continue to mount with each new product. Pitfall! maintained the top slot on the Billboard charts for 64 weeks and was named video game of the year in 1982. Pitfall II: Lost Caverns was also the number one rated game in the country for over six months and won the 1984 Golden Floppy award for best game and the Video Adventure Game of the Year award for 1984. The Activision Decathlon was in the top 20 video games for more than one year and won several sports game awards. Other Activision hits written by Crane include Dragster, Fishing Derby, Laser Blast, Freeway, Grand Prix, Skateboardin' and Super Skateboardin' (the last one was for the Atari 7800).
Ghostbusters, Crane's 9th release for Activision achieved unprecedented sales in the United States, throughout Europe, and Japan. Crane's Little Computer People was awarded the 1985 award for the most innovative program of the year. A Boy and His Blob received the best of show award at its introduction and was the video game of the year for 1989. Crane was named designer of the year in 1983 and 1984 and his works have been called "beyond belief" and "offering the most remarkable breadth of any videogame(s) yet produced”.
David Crane, along with Dan & Garry Kitchen, founded Audacity Games in November 2020 to develop Atari 2600 games to be played on retro consoles. They plan to release these games as both physical copies alongside digital versions that are emulator-friendly.
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Nintendrew is a video game collector, indie developer, and YouTuber with a passion for strange and obscure corners of Nintendo history, the ups and downs of the retro game market, and DIY/how-to projects. With a professional background in game development, he has also published his cross-platform title, C.A.R.L., as a love letter to the classic games he grew up with. Keep an eye out for the Mario suit – you can’t miss it!
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Gary Anthony Williams is an American actor, comedian and filmmaker whose career has spawned over 3 decades! His video game credits include Charles Saracino & Elanos Haliat in Mass Effect, Yancy Westridge in Alpha Protocol, Mongul in Batman: The Brave & the Bold – The Videogame, General Horace Warfield in StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty and in the Heart of the Swarm DLC, Dr. Richard Tygan in XCOM 2 and in the War of the Chosen DLC, Burgrend in Horizon Zero Dawn and in the Frozen Wilds DLC, and his voice work can be heard in Britney's Dance Beat, Star Trek: Starfleet Command III, Evil Dead: A Fistful of Boomstick, Yakuza, ATV Offroad Fury 4, Halo Wars, and Infamous.
An accomplished voice actor, Williams is best known for voicing Uncle Ruckus on The Boondocks. His additional voiceover credits include Disney Channel's Marvel's Moon Girl & Devil Dinosaur (based on Marvel's hit comic books), Oddballs, Hailey’s On it, The Lion Guard, Star Wars Resistance, Star vs. The Forces of Evil, Puppy Dog Pals, Love Death & Robots, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Batman: The Brave & the Bold, Bob's Burgers, Rick & Morty, Family Guy, American Dad! and Rugrats.
Williams' film credits include Block Party, The Internship, Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, Undercover Brother, Soul Plane, The Factory, and portraying "Bebop" in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows.
On television, Williams starred in the sitcom The Crew, Reno 911! The Hunt for QAnon, and as “Santa” in the Disney Channel Original Movie “Christmas Again”. His additional television credits include Night Court, I'm Sorry, Boston Legal, Blue Collar TV, The Neighborhood, How I Met Your Mother, Whose Line is it Anyway?, The Soul Man, Raising Hope, Malcolm in the Middle and Weeds. He is also the voice of the award-winning music show “Unsung”.
Tofer.A has been playing games and collecting his entire life. As a child of the 80s, he grew up obsessed with video games and arcade machines, and enjoys showing his love for them on Instagram, TikTok, & his YouTube channel; where he likes to specialize in obscure video game history. He loves doing live card pack rippings of all kinds with his two boys, but mostly focuses on Garbage Pail kids and Pokemon. His channel consists of many videos ranging from video game facts and history, TCGs, and gardening; and he uploads new content every day!