Tommy Tallarico

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Tommy Tallarico
Tommy Tallarico performing with Video Games Live.jpg
Tallarico performing with Video Games Live in 2016
Background information
Born (1968-02-18) February 18, 1968 (age 56)
Springfield, Massachusetts, U.S.
Genres
Occupation(s)
  • Video game music composer
  • musician
  • television personality
  • live show creative director
  • producer
Instrument(s)
  • Electric guitar
  • piano
  • keyboard
Years active1991–2022
Member of Video Games Live
Website www.tallarico.com

Thomas Andrew Tallarico (born February 18, 1968) is an American video game music composer, sound designer, businessman, musician, television personality, live show creative director, and producer. He and his company, Tommy Tallarico Studios, worked on several video games since the 1990s. [1] He co-hosted the television shows Electric Playground and Reviews on the Run from 1997 until 2006. [2] In 2002, he created Video Games Live (VGL), a global video game music orchestra.

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In 2018, after he became the president of Intellivision Entertainment, the company began work on and sought investors for an original video game console named the Intellivision Amico, for which Tallarico was frequently present in pitch videos. He has since stepped down from his position as CEO but remains on the company's board as president. To date, the console has yet to be released.

In 2020, it came to Tallarico's attention that a sound effect he owned from a game Tommy Tallarico Studios worked on, Messiah , was used without permission in the video game Roblox . This led to a legal dispute which ended in 2022 with the removal of the sound effect from the game. In 2022, a video by British YouTuber Harry "Hbomberguy" Brewis documented an investigation into many disputed high-profile claims that Tallarico had made concerning his career.

Early life

Tommy Tallarico grew up in Springfield, Massachusetts, later attending Cathedral High School. [3] [4] He told The Washington Post in an interview he would take his father's tape recorder to the arcade to record songs as a child. [5] After graduating high school, Tallarico attended Western New England University for a year. [4] According to the Los Angeles Times , Tallarico moved to Southern California in 1991 to try and obtain a job in the video game industry. [6] Tallarico took a job as a keyboard salesman at a Guitar Center in Santa Ana, California. [4] On his first day, Tallarico met an executive from Virgin Mastertronic. Shortly after, Tallarico was given a job at Virgin as one of their play-testers. [6]

Career

Tallarico's first musical project at Virgin Interactive was for the Game Boy version of Prince of Persia . "The main focus of writing video game music back then was it had to be simple and have a great melody," Tallarico said. [4] Tallarico worked on a number of other games while at Virgin Interactive, including The Terminator . [7]

Tommy Tallarico Studios

Tallarico continued working with Virgin Interactive as head of music and video division until 1994, when he went on to found Tommy Tallarico Studios. David Perry formed Shiny Entertainment at the same time, and the two studios collaborated on Earthworm Jim and MDK . [8] In 2005, Tallarico wrote part of an orchestral score for Advent Rising performed by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. [9]

In September 1999, the "oof" sound effect was created for the game Messiah during its development, with the involvement of sound designer Joey Kuras (then employed at Tallarico Studios) and potentially, Tallarico. [10] [11] Tallarico has at times claimed that Kuras created the sound, that it was a collaboration between the pair, and that he created it himself. [11] [12] The sound effect was subsequently used in Roblox from 2006 to 2020, played after a character died in-game, and became an iconic part of the game after its adoption by meme culture. [13] Tallarico, who claims ownership of the sound, disputed Roblox's use of it in June 2019. [14] This dispute ended in July 2022 when the Roblox Corporation pulled the sound from all games on its platform. [15]

Television

In 1997, Victor Lucas, founder of the Electric Playground, started Electric Playground TV with Tallarico, which provided gaming news and reviews. In 2002, the reviews section of Electric Playground, Reviews on the Run, was spun-off into its own program, which Tallarico and Lucas hosted as well. In the U.S., Reviews on the Run was broadcast on G4 TV as Judgment Day. [16] [17] [ dead link ] In 2006, Tallarico began to spend less time on the show owing to other projects, missing almost all of 2007 and 2008. In 2009, Scott Jones took over his spot as full-time co-host with Victor Lucas. [18] [19]

Music concerts

In 2002, Tallarico co-founded Video Games Live, a symphony orchestra concert series that plays music from video games, with Jack Wall. [20] Tallarico hosted and played guitar for the shows. He also created the visuals—scenes from video games, as well as lights and lasers—that are played in sync with the music. [21] [22]

Tallarico has produced seven VGL albums. The first album, Video Games Live Volume 1, debuted at No. 10 on Billboard Top 10 for Classical Music Crossovers. [23] The second volume, Level 2, also sold as a Blu-ray DVD concert, debuted at No. 8 on the same Billboard list. [24] In August 2013, Tallarico also opened a crowdfunding campaign for the third album Level 3 on Kickstarter. [25] According to Tallarico, Kickstarter was chosen as the means to fund the album because he had not been successful in attracting support from the recording industry, which he claimed was because music producers "don't think gamers are willing to pay for music" [26] and did not recognize the perceived "culturally artistic significance" of video game soundtracks. [25] The Level 3 campaign successfully met and surpassed its goal of $250,000. [27]

In 2014, Tallarico and electronic dance music artist BT began working on Electronic Opus . As with Video Games Live, Electronic Opus presents EDM music alongside a symphony orchestra. They used Kickstarter to fund an album, with a goal of $200,000. The show opened at the Miami Winter Music Conference in 2015. [28] [29]

In 2016, Tallarico co-produced the Capcom Live! concert tour with Shota Nakama. [30] [31]

Intellivision Entertainment

Following the death of Keith Robinson in 2017, founder of Intellivision Productions, Tallarico purchased a stake in the company from the estate. In May 2018, Intellivision Entertainment was re-formed with him as president. In the winter of that year, he announced the intent for the company to release the Intellivision Amico with the target of October 2020. [32] As of July 2022, it is reportedly still being worked on. [33]

As of September 2022, the Amico has been delayed at least three times. [34] The console has been viewed very negatively by critics, drawing criticism for its delays, [35] fundraising tactics, [36] and use of NFTs. [37] The status of the console has been described as "grim" by TechRaptor [38] and compared to a car crash by Kotaku. [39]

In February 2022, Tallarico stepped down from his role as CEO of Intellivision, remaining on board as the company's president and largest shareholder. He was replaced by the company's former chief revenue officer Phil Adam. [40]

Other

In 2002, Tallarico founded the Game Audio Network Guild (G.A.N.G.), a non-profit to recognize achievements in video game music and audio. [41] The guild hosts annual awards for achievement in game audio. [42]

In November 2022, British YouTuber Harry "Hbomberguy" Brewis published a video essay which documented many of the high-profile claims that Tallarico had made concerning his career—including the number of video games he worked on, the number of Guinness World Records he earned, being the creator of the sound effect at the heart of his Roblox legal dispute, and being the first American to work on the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise—and concluded many were either gross exaggerations or knowingly false. [11] [43]

Personal life

Tallarico is vegan, and advocates for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, including donating music for the PETA browser game Super Tofu Boy in 2010. [44]

According to the LA Times , his home in San Juan Capistrano "looks as if a 12-year-old with a huge bank account went wild", including a life-size Indiana Jones, several Star Wars characters, and a statue of Merlin. [45] Tallarico has falsely claimed that the house had at one point been featured on MTV Cribs . [11] [43] [46] [47] As of February 2024, he has listed it for sale for $2,999,000. [48]

Video games

YearTitleRole(s)NotesRef.
1991 Chuck Rock Testing [49]
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves Quality assuranceGame Boy version [50]
1992 Prince of Persia Music & SFX [43]


Muhammad Ali Heavyweight Boxing With Michelle Sorger
Monopoly Deluxe Music & sound coordinator
Jeep Jamboree: Off Road Adventure Game Boy version [51]
Greg Norman's Golf Power Product manager, assistant manual editor [52]
M.C. Kids Quality assurance
Corporation
Club RacquetballSoundWith Steve Henifin
Global Gladiators Music, Sound FX & SamplesSega Genesis version
Batman: Return of the Joker Music & sound
1993 Another World
The Terminator Director of Music & FXWith Brad Fiedel, Bijan Shaheer, Joey Kuras and TeknoMan of Teknologic [53]
Cool Spot Music, SFX & samplesSega Genesis and Super NES versions
Super Caesars Palace Executive musicians, actorWith Steve Henefin
RoboCop versus The Terminator Director of Music & FX
Color a Dinosaur Music & sound
Super Slap Shot
1994 Race Days
Caesars PalaceMusicWith Seth Mendelsohn & Matt Furniss
Disney's Aladdin With Don Griffin
Earthworm Jim: Special Edition Music & SFXWith Mark Miller [43]
The Jungle Book Director of Music and FXWith various others.
Heart of the Alien Music & soundWith Jean-François Freitas
Demolition Man Original game music3DO version, with Keith Arem, Joey Kuras & Charlie Malone
1995 Agile Warrior: F-111X Sprite actor, ingame sound effectsWith Joey Kuras and Keith Arem
Madden NFL 96 Music & sound
Spot Goes To Hollywood
Earthworm Jim 2 With Tony Bernetich and Christopher Beck [54] [ better source needed ]
Jim Lee's WildC.A.T.S: Covert Action Teams
1996 Burning Road "U.S. Remix" Composer
Golden Nugget Music
Skeleton Warriors Music & SFXWith Todd Dennis, Jean-Christophe Beck and Eric Swanson
Black Dawn With Todd Dennis
1997 MDK
VMX Racing With Mark Duncan & Jon Studtmann
Duckman: The Graphic Adventures of a Private Dick Voice talent, music compositionWith Todd Dennis, John Lawrence & Bill Hendrickson
Treasures of the Deep Music and sound effectsWith Steve Woods & Todd Dennis
The 7th Guest SoundWith Steve Henifin
1998 Wild 9 Music and SFXWith Sonic Mayhem
HardBall 6 Sound effects
WarGames: Defcon 1 Music & Sound FX, voice acting
Apocalypse Movie scoring and sound effects
Beavis and Butt-Head Do U. Music & sound
1999Ultra FightersMusicWith Scott Coldwell
Redline
R/C Stunt Copter Audio script
Demolition Racer Writer, producer, performer, sound effectsWith various others
Knockout Kings 2000 Sound designWith Joey Kuras
Tomorrow Never Dies Music and Sound FXWith Sonic Mayhem, Howard Ulyate & Todd Dennis
Wings of Fury MusicGame Boy Color version
Unreal Mission Pack I: Return to Na Pali Sound effectsWith Alexander Brandon & Eric Heberlin
2000 Messiah Music and sound effectsWith Jesper Kyd and Joey Kuras [12]
Arthur's Absolutely Fun Day! Music
Spider-Man With Howard Ulyate
Sacrifice Sound effectsWith Joey Kuras
Evil Dead: Hail to the King Music composer, producer and audio production coordinatorWith Todd Dennis, Chris Rickwood & Jack Wall
2001 Knockout Kings 2001 Sound and audioWith various others
Maximo: Ghosts to Glory Music & sound design
Casper: Spirit Dimensions Sound and voiceWith Joey Kuras
Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee MusicOpening cinematic only
2002 Scooby-Doo! Night of 100 Frights With Todd Dennis & Howard Uyate
Street Hoops Audio director
2003 War of the Monsters Sound FX
Black & Bruised Voice over producer
Devastation Additional music
Maximo vs. Army of Zin Music, sound design & voice actingWith various others
SpyHunter 2 Cinematic audio, sound design & compositionWith Joey Kuras & Howard Ulyate
2004 The Incredibles Sound FX designWith Nathan Lee Smith
The Bard's Tale Music, audio, lyrics, sound designWith various others.
Fugitive Hunter: War on Terror Music producer
The X-Files: Resist or Serve Audio director
2005 Advent Rising
2006 AND 1 Streetball
Jaws: Unleashed Orchestrations, arrangementsWith various others
Snoopy vs. the Red Baron Music & sound designWith Joey Kuras and Scott Ligon
Pac-Man World Rally With Joey Kuras
2008 Line Rider 2: Unbound Sound effects
Defendin' De PenguinComposerWith Mike Rubino & Rod Abernathy
2009 Sonic and the Black Knight Music, arrangementsWith Howard Drossin, Richard Jacques, Jun Senoue and others [43]
2010 Flip's Twisted World Music and sound effectsWith Joey Kuras
Super Tofu Boy Music donation [44]
2012 Retro City Rampage Actor

Albums

YearTitleNotes
1994Virgin Games Greatest Hits, Vol. 1Compilation of tracks from various games
1996Games Greatest Hits, Vol. 2
2006Earthworm Jim AnthologyCompilation of music from Earthworm Jim with remixes
2008Video Games Live – Level 1
2010Video Games Live – Level 2
2011Play for Japan: The AlbumWith various others, charity album
2014Video Games Live – Level 3
2015Video Games Live – Through Time and Space: Chrono Piano Album
Video Games Live – Level 4
2016Video Games Live – Zelda Majora's Mask Piano Album
Video Games Live – Level 5
2018Video Games Live – Level 6

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