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Nintendo brought back Captain Falcon's original voice actor to record new audio for Min Min's Smash Bros. Ultimate reveal

Packing a punch
by rawmeatcowboy
23 June 2020
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Yesterday's Smash Bros. Ultimate fighter reveal might have been all about Min Min from ARMS, but it also featured a cameo from Captain Falcon. While the good Captain only has a bit part in the video, Nintendo and Masahiro Sakurai went all-out on the appearance.

According to Sakurai himself, Nintendo brought back Ryo Horikawa to provide voice work for Captain Falcon. Horikawa, who is the Japanese voice for Vegeta in Dragon Ball, hasn't recorded for Captain Falcon since 1999!

We made a new fighter video, in which Captain Falcon is slurping a bowl of ramen. For just that one specific scene, we invited the voice of Captain Falcon, Mr. Ryo Horikawa, to join us. Mr. Horikawa is a very famous voice actor who also voices Vegeta in the Dragon Ball series in Japan.

Since the Nintendo 64 version, we've done many voice recordings for the Super Smash Bros. series. However, Captain Falcon is the only voice we haven't done new recordings for. Except fighters like Yoshi, for which we use pre-recorded assets, of course.

It was a very fun VO session. He mentioned that he still occasionally receives requests from fans such as, "Captain Falcon! Please do Falcon Punch!"

It's equal parts crazy and wonderful to think that Horikawa was brought back in to record a series of silly grunts and noises for yesterday's video. It certainly shows that Nintendo does care to go the extra step for their titles. Now if they only cared a bit more about F-Zero!

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