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Smash Bros. Brawl announcer explains how he got the job
A portion of Source Gaming interview with Brawl announcer, Pat Cashman...
SG: How’d you get the job to be Brawl’s announcer? Was there an audition process?
PC: To be honest, I don’t remember. I think I was just hired and called in without a real audition. I also have to admit that I had no real idea what I was doing…how the game worked…who’d be using it, etc…
It looked nice on my resumé to say that I was the announcer on what was one of the most popular video games on the planet—but had never actually seen it myself. For awhile I would get requests from gamers to do customized versions of the announcer for birthday greetings, etc…But I had to stop doing that because I was getting too many requests…And also I wasn’t sure I really had the right to be doing the character that fundamentally didn’t belong to me, but Nintendo.