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[@bobostudios3730]

By making this comment, I have contributed to this video. It was a joy working on this video with you. My mom is very proud.

[@renaokawa6199]

His mom is very proud that your mom is very proud. It gives her very proud feelings knowing that your mom ( who he is going to start claiming as his other mom as a result ) is proud that you ( him ) added a comment to this video and contributed ( and ended up making the video possible with this contribution )

[@Astrothunder_]

you have contributed nothing of value to this video... heres $100,000,000 for all that effort though (also you now have the right to sell some t shirts with this videos title on it)

[@pTheCrackerq]

By commenting on this comment, I helped create you who created this comment and in turn, this video. I am so proud of you my child and I will happily subscribe to this channel that you definitely made on your own with no help at all.

[@jurgnobs1308]

we are very proud that we contributed by writing that comment. our mums are very proud

[@ACUMA57]

Uh I can explain.

[@ThorgisArcade]

One last little sprinkle to throw on top of all this. The joke Talarico keeps telling about his fountain and how it makes him have to use the bathroom? Yeah that's a joke from Friends. Joey got an apartment with a little waterfall fountain in there and he says the problem is it makes him have to use the bathroom. Even that joke is stolen... and ironically stolen from another Joey.

[@culwin]

I wonder if Joey's mother is very proud.

[@Brunosky_Inc]

IT'S ALWAYS JOEY!

[@wadespencer3623]

To be fair it's a simple enough joke he could have come up with it individually.

[@culwin]

@@wadespencer3623 True, it's the Carlos Mencia problem. Did he steal the joke? Or did he come up with the bad joke on his own?

[@Siyth]

this is actually insane LOL

[@thevoidlord1796]

I love how Hbomb mentions that Tommy was on MTV Cribs around 9:48, and hints at the fact that he probably lied about it, and yet by the time the video finally starts talking about MTV Cribs, Hbomb's uncovered so many massive lies that you've completely forgotten about Cribs. The Tallerico Event Horizon is real

[@failure3250]

foreshadowing is a literary device in whi-

[@Kevmaster2000]

Hbomb is a Minecrafter. This is hbomberguy.

[@Localbisexual]

As an artist, if my boss gave me a bunch of "epic weapon sounds" as my only reference for designing weapons I would actually commit a crime.

[@egglololol]

i think it sounds fun as fuck😫 but if it was a job i guess ya id be tweaking..

[@zulubunsen9067]

Hey, I can do a bunch of cool pew-pew sounds, you can get the visuals done for them for sure.

[@Lucifersfursona]

At least you’ll have a sound bank to confuse people about what weapons you could be using when you do

[@bibsp3556]

Tbh, I reckon i could work with that.

[@froggy.2256]

@@bibsp3556it’s a fun challenge on paper but with a deadline and no other pointers to guide you, I can see it easily becoming more of a nightmare lol

[@DeLisi.]

So just an update since its been over a year since this video has been live: Tommy has been M.I.A ever since this dropped. Literally. Not a tweet. Not an interview. Nothing. Complete silence. Gone with the wind. Absolute insane levels of dissappearance. Anyways, congratulations on this massive W, HBG! EDIT: Its been recently revealed he has spent the last two years playing Backgammon. After his father's passing he devoted most of his time into Backgammon and recently won the Intermediate Championship in Monte Carlo.

[@Dequ011]

You can see that he tried to hide tweets that mention this video. I'm 100% sure he knows he's fucked

[@DeLisi.]

@Dequ011 that's kind of amazing honestly.

[@pichi__]

wow

[@ThaisWeiller]

I came back here today looking for some info like that. Thank you for that!

[@abystrous]

Intellivision also just announced they’re not ever selling the Amico lol, lmao

[@Yamartim]

Notice how when he says "my mother is very proud" there's a clear omission of WHO the mother is proud of, he could easily add in "of me" at the end but he never does The only feasible conclusion is that his mother is actually proud of Joey Kuras

[@ConsarnitTokkori]

nice of tommy to notice this oopsie he used to do

[@CoqueiroLendario]

ITS AWAYS JOEY!

[@trooper9249]

Tommy's Batman villain origin is that his mother always preferred Joey over him.

[@Sugarman96]

That's the only reasonable conclusion. After watching the video, I'm also proud of Joey Kuras.

[@degiguess]

this feels like another plot point that would enter the video as a joke only to then lead into a sections where HBG lays out mountains of evidence that Tommy's mom is more proud of Joey than Tommy

[@mikesanders8621]

I'm guessing that Tommy insists on referencing his "7 foot waterfall" in every interview because the waterfall is actually 6 feet and he's hoping people will think he's tall standing next to it.

[@Deadflower019]

LMAOO

[@IRFine]

That would be very in-character

[@Lucas-yu4bu]

That makes so much sense

[@Pineappolis]

Oh, that's brilliant.

[@dalgusmaximus4557]

That's a little too good for a guess.

[@yannilibbes8219]

less than a month ago tommy was on stream at a backgammon tournament after winning a mid level side event claiming to have learned the game with his dying father in the past few years and becoming a good player very quickly. tommy has had an account on the american backgammon website that he logs into daily for almost 15 years. he's mentioned multiple times that he's a lifelong backgammon player. tommy might actually be a pathological liar

[@unflexian]

holy shiet

[@alexisventura7191]

It really is amazing he wasant called out until now

[@ccricers]

In the AtariAge forums he also said, 4 years ago, in addition to what you said, he also entered tournaments and won a few times in his class and nationally ranked at one point. He also claimed to be taught by one of the greatest modern players (Nack Ballard) but that could also be a lie. You can see for yourself on page 716 on the Amico mega thread. The "AmicoAge" Neocities website mirrored the web pages since the original was taken down.

[@hazardperceptiontest]

the only true this abt this is his father dying that is actually insane what is wrong with this guy

[@perpetuallyconfused09]

Who the fuck has a backgammon account for 15 years

[@heseipikmin6415]

I like to imagine this video plays in its entirety in Tallarico's nightmares, only for him to wake up in cold sweat, having to go to the bathroom from the sound of his 7ft. piss fountain.

[@looselytelling]

I can imagine Tommy getting totally wasted and pissing into his fountain

[@Lady8D]

I don't wanna imagine what other fluids are flowing thru that fountain 😂 Grab a sock or paper towel? Nah, fountain!

[@CheckmateFixit]

At least his mother is proud

[@dracomalfoyvevo]

Which is actually an 6ft tall piss fountain.

[@First-to-last]

​@@dracomalfoyvevowhich is actually a 5ft. 9in. Piss fountain

[@yobblyblob5745]

Hbomberguy and I have been talking about making this video for years. I was the first American to work with Hbomberguy

[@kennynelson3189]

Your mother is very proud.

[@DaedSixes]

how proud is your mother?

[@tsukitanuki101]

Well no, actually it was Joey

[@yobblyblob5745]

@@tsukitanuki101 IT’S ALWAYS JOEY!!!

[@jumpingfreak3]

yobblyblob5745 and I have been talking about making this comment for decades! I was the first Human to work with yobblyblob5745

[@TheBattlesword]

Update for May 2023: Everyone at Intellivision has left Tommy, many of his fans have confessed or have been revealed to have been bought by Tommy through patreon donations, both his offices have shut down, and last I heard, he's being sued by an interior design company over unmade payments for the elaborate offices he requested. VGLive is still playing though.

[@mcj88]

Also someone redirected his website to this video, lmao

[@blakksheep736]

Pfffffffffffffft

[@raspberrytaegi]

HAHAHA thanks bud

[@culwin]

By "both" you mean all 5 of the offices they claimed. Also, they're being sued by a equipment finance company (not "interior design").

[@kattastic9999]

Of course he's still doing concerts

[@NoteBard]

On Tommy Talarico's Wikipedia page, it mentions Hbomberguy. This video will always be inexorably tied to Tommy.

[@morgangunning30]

this is so nuts

[@magikot]

I can't believe Tommy worked on this video too!

[@EmperorSpectro]

There's a good chance this video is more well-known than Tommy was before it was uploaded. In a fitting kind of retribution, Tommy has been introduced to many as a (highly probable) liar rather than as an inhumanly accomplished game composer.

[@rebelprincess1164]

I promise you the “My mother’s very proud” line got a laugh once decades ago and he’s been chasing that high ever since.

[@Whiteythereaper]

I imagine it would have been funny once, like 20-25 years ago when Video Games were still seen as this whole "For Kids, waste of time" thing and not a real job that makes serious amounts of money. You could tell someone you're an audio engineer and music producer for VIDEO GAMES at a time when the only actual publicly well known audio producers were likely Dr. Dre and Nile Rodgers, with the face of the music being the artist instead of the producer being the big name like back in the 50s and 60s, and it would have been an embarrassing admission to some and brought questions of how much money there is in making sounds for kids' games. If you follow up the "yes I make sound for games" with "and yes my mother is very proud that I work on this waste of time aimed at kids" seems like it would illicit a laugh as a self burn from those who share that view that games were stupid.

[@phillystevesteak6982]

Oh boy, so he forgot about the context that made his joke work in the first place and just get repeating it after said context became irrelevant... @@Whiteythereaper

[@RubyBlueUwU]

@@Whiteythereaperyeah it’s wild to be making a “games are stupid” to people who care so much about video game production that they care what this absolute nobody has done and has to say solely because he’s seen as a video game production icon. Who do you think you’re talking to, Tommy?

[@ziyair2998]

My theory about this (and the "the waterfall makes me have to pee" line) is that Tommy believes that if he tells a story, or says a lie, the exact same way every time, it makes it more believable

[@bram7723]

I promise you that SOMEONE ELSE heard him talk about his "record" and then said 'your mother must be very proud lol' and Tommy uses it every time he can in an attempt to make it seem like his own joke

[@grfrjiglstan]

It would be really interesting if Miyamoto and Tommy had a lot of deep, meaningful interactions during the development of Metroid Prime, especially since Miyamoto doesn’t really speak English at all, and Tommy doesn’t seem to speak Japanese.

[@user-ez9ng2rw9c]

Tommy actually composed his English into music in such a way it became a universal language or something.

[@samuelbarber6177]

Tommy just kept assuming they were deep and meaningful when really Miyamoto was saying: “When will you go away, dumb American.” And similar words to that effect.

[@RubyBlueUwU]

They had a Disney’s Pocahontas style epiphany and could suddenly understand each other perfectly, you just don’t get how good at sound design Tommy is

[@LillyAnarkitty]

Tommy invented Japanese actually. The Japanese people used to speak English until Tommy became the first American to ever visit Japan, and they were like “just make a bunch of sounds for us and we’ll attribute meaning to them and make that our language”. He actually holds the Guinness world record for bestest language ever created.

[@eliseg1574]

It's so cringe listening to him try to invent a conversation between him and Miyamoto. "Like 'oh man, I really love all your Mario stuff', and he'd say 'oh man, I really love all - all your stuff ... that you do..." What stuff? Tell us, Tommy. Tell us specifically what things you did that Miyamoto would be aware of.

[@neonal18]

Tommy’s use of “we” to mean “Joey” is like the darker counterpart to the royal “we.” The illegitimate “we.” The usurper “we.” The bastard “we.”

[@casperhansen7467]

Dont forget the french “oui”

[@einstein951]

​@@casperhansen7467non

[@blakksheep736]

​@@casperhansen7467 ye.

[@FirstnameLastname-sb3hj]

​@@casperhansen7467and the spanish si

[@lyndislegion287]

You heard about Singular They, Now get ready for Singular We

[@JawesomePossum]

Tommy just copyright claimed one of my videos playing the old Evil Dead: Hail to the King game because the game has one of Tommy's song as the boss theme. I am dying.

[@davidtaylor142]

Thats insane

[@MegTR197]

So I realized something very funny about the whole "worked with Miyamoto for 5 years" lie just to compound on the lies. I thought 5 years sounded a bit much for Metroid Prime because I remember hearing that Retro Studios went into crunch time to get the game out so I happened to check the development time frame and the WHOLE game took four years. So he's exaggerating not only how long he worked on the game, HE EXAGGERATED SO MUCH IT WENT PAST THE TOTAL DEVELOPMENT PERIOD. That also led to a really funny Wikipedia deep dive where I found in an IGN article that Miyamoto said, "As a matter of fact, we were about to present Metroid Prime to the Space World 2001 show, but it doesn't yet have good enough sound effects..." If I'm looking at the timeline right, that's around the time Tommy Tallerico Studios left. So not only did Tommy supposedly worked hand in hand with a guy who reportedly did not like Metroid, not only did he work with him LONGER than the total development period for the whole game, MIYAMOTO DIDN'T EVEN THINK HIS SOUND EFFECTS WERE GOOD ENOUGH. I'm dying, I can't with this.

[@armenianrussian]

HIS MOTHER MAY BE PROUD, BUT MIYAMOTO DEFINITELY WASNT

[@ccricers]

He did this time-twisting shit a lot when promoting the Intellivision Amico. Every time he talked of Intellivision of the early 80's, he always says "we" like he was with the company originally. Intellivision wasn't even a company back then- it was the product made by Mattel. Tommy was pretending he was involved when he was 10-11 years old.

[@snaifhassnan6348]

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[@hypatiakovalevskayasklodow9195]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 it would be funny if it wasnt terrible

[@hypatiakovalevskayasklodow9195]

This comment cites its sources better than the half of the stuff in HBG's next video! Edit: I already commented on this comment and then forgot about it. I was wrong. It's both funny and terrible

[@TheStoenk]

"He even was on a British TV show where the presenter clearly hates his house" Me: "oh so he makes subtle backhanded compliments" Presenter: "This is absolutely hideous"

[@ClaudiaNW]

Less Guy Fieri, more Gordon Ramsey

[@dreammachine5435]

"children are starving and you've turned your house into a rainforest cafe. why tommy? why would you do this?"

[@botondhetyey159]

There is something about British people being angry, annoyed, or disappointed.

[@goutamboppana961]

@@botondhetyey159 lol

[@dstyKchp]

The there are people starving line hit me hard

[@jacksfilms]

Just waving hi to Tommy 'cause he's absolutely reading these comments 👋

[@therealavolpe]

Hi Tommy you f'kn Púnk 😄👍

[@joshuafallgren8498]

He's incredibly pissed rn and I'm so glad

[@therealavolpe]

@@joshuafallgren8498 Lol I've been burying Tommy with a bunch of smaller YouTúbers for Years & this is the nail in the coffin..!!

[@SmartSmears]

People say this a lot for a lot of different people but in this context I actually believe this 110%

[@torismorey]

Nice to see you here Jack!

[@DoggishPrince34]

Hi Hbomberguy! I’m sure you’ve probably seen this by now, but the video of the terminator sega cd visions video now says composed by Joey Kuras! I thought you would like to know so you can confirm that with you making these videos, you are absolutely having a positive effect on the gaming community as a whole. Love your stuff, and can’t wait for your next yearly upload!

[@joyflameball]

Replying so this can get boosted 🎉🎉

[@blakksheep736]

IT'S ALWAYS JOEY

[@joeydecunha]

Disappointed that you weren't able to verify the claim that Tommy's mother is proud of him.

[@Catraaa]

So is Tommy

[@arturoaguilar6002]

Maybe he didn't want to risk stepping in another rabbit hole on how Tommy doesn't actually have a mother or something...

[@alexandercandicedad1355]

Based on his track record, that is probably something he WISHES was true

[@FrankMcFuzz1]

Safe guess no

[@cybersushi4930]

wouldn't be surprised if he lied about that too

[@DarthGardens]

Tommy stole one major idea from his beloved spouse miyamoto. He learned how to say Wii, when he actually meant U

[@MartianMeli]

SCREAMING

[@hdbordercollie]

💀🤌

[@emcee.escher]

best comment on this video hands DOWN

[@crosseightyeight]

Underrated comment!

[@DarkStarCoreX]

Take my god damn like.

[@GrumpMcDump]

I can't believe Tommy invented video games just so he can make music for them. His mother must be very proud.

[@burntrobot4850]

Such a talented man!

[@Kwassikk]

I've heard his mother is very proud tbf

[@NA-AN]

A veritable video game icon I’m sure.

[@PandaXs1]

not just video games, he invented the TV so that there could be a device to play games on.

[@danielchick1]

He didn't invent the internet though, because offline gaming is obviously superior

[@ballisticblocker9163]

52:20 I think my favourite part of this whole video is where Tommy had to pause to think what Miyamoto said he liked of his, and the best he could come up with was his ‘stuff’. Even Tommy is struggling to think of things he actually did

[@jacklfitz]

Tommy is just a kid who never stopped saying his uncle worked for Nintendo

[@woodfur00]

But that would require consistency

[@yashanaku12]

The consistency is that he evolved it from "My uncle works at Nintendo" to "I work for Nintendo" to even "I single-handedly build and created Nintendo."

[@woodfur00]

@@yashanaku12 And every one of its games was my idea from the ground up. I conceived of the Mario franchise and designed every Pokémon except the ones you don't like

[@noizepusher7594]

He is the uncle that worked at Nintendo

[@dusklunistheumbreon]

@@yashanaku12 Give it a year and he'll say his last name *is* Nintendo

[@yaboyrobin]

better be careful, tommy will put this video on a list of things he's worked on.

[@KeroKero_Cola]

Underrated comment

[@MikeRaist]

I literally coughed up coffee laughing at this comment, lol.

[@Sera_AI]

Oof

[@pastaluvr5596]

"I got an award for longest KZbin videos ever made. My mother's very proud."

[@lukascook8477]

You guys crack me up 🤣

[@thedenseone6443]

I find it hilarious that the basis for Tommy's "records" was so weak, even just the simple process of Kat researching them inadvertently got one revoked. That is astounding

[@cdnlightning1080]

It was actually tommy that got it revoked. His mother is very proud of his honesty

[@gave2haze]

Don't look up twingalaxies

[@nsf001-3]

@@gave2haze Man all the hoopla around Billy Mitchell / Twin Galaxies a year or so back was a really great rabbit hole to go down

[@dylpickle0192]

@@nsf001-3Unless you’re Apollo Legend, RIP.

[@tokevarvaspolvi8999]

Didn't know Schrödinger had a world record! Wonder how his cat is doing

[@campbellkramer3294]

The first time you mentioned his website i visited it to check it out and it automatically plays his music as soon as you enter the site. I didn't realize the music was coming from his site and I left the tab open while watching this vid. I watched like 1.5 hours of this vid with his music looping in the background before I realized lmao. Anyways major cred to Tommy Tallarico for scoring this video. 351 credits now.

[@anvilmemetrooper]

I did the same thing on my most recent rewatch, but this weirdly added to the watching experience, even though I was confused for a moment because I did not remember the music being there. It wouldn't be surprising if Joey Kuras also composed the website music and Thomas The Tallarico Engine just claimed credit for it. You know, his mother is very proud!

[@pleonazmodium]

"youtuber becomes an investigative journalist against their will" is my new favorite format

[@Lucifersfursona]

I wanna set up a little lemonade booth called “watch me burn” that people can view my content through

[@TheGalaxyWings]

I mean hbomberguy has made this type of content before

[@Dioxazine_Stars]

Same

[@sarahtonin6367]

God yes, this is absolute gold

[@FFKonoko]

​@@TheGalaxyWings"x is my new favourite y" does not mean that x is a new thing that hasn't been done before. It means that it has become their new favourite thing. That it being their favourite thing is the new change. The implication is that they have recently experienced a high quality x that made them interested in x as a whole.

[@DarthGardens]

Update: i saw on twitter a post from like, 2021 where a james bond fan account tweeted about the soundtrack to a james bond videogame. They specifically mentioned Tallerico studios. Tommy retweeted it saying “it was so fun to make this!” I went to IMDB for that specific game, and youll never guess in one billion years whose name was on the credit list for sound design It was JOEY

[@elevate07]

IT KEEPS HAPPENING! Is Joey a real person? Is Joey Tommy's alternate personality? Does Tommy take credit for Joey breathing?

[@squidsbizarreadventure]

WAIT would this have anything to do with that one time Dylan Mulvaney posted on Instagram with the James Bond theme and the audio is credited to Tommy Tallarico?!

[@AzureLlama]

I feel like whenever something gets miss attributed we should just say Joey made it.

[@KristenPeacock]

Poor Joey...

[@ewanb1086]

Was it the music because if that's the case there is a chance it actually was him

[@DrMintster]

I still can't believe Tommy was the first American. What an inspiration.

[@cheshirecat888]

His mother is so proud

[@SickegalAlien]

​@@cheshirecat888 Logically speaking, his mother wasn't American.

[@tumescent]

The "Primordial American" they call him

[@qstionblomens6138]

@@SickegalAlien That’s why she’s so proud ☺️

[@gulfcoastgaming6034]

I can’t believe Tommy Tallarico was the world’s first hedgehog

[@insomniacnerd5592]

The best thing to come out of this is the idea of a DND Warlock Villain who has to constantly spout ‘My Mother is very proud’ as a part of their contract to appease their patron.

[@plcthelegacy4131]

"Aw man I love your Mario stuff." "Aw ma, I love the....stuff you do" Ok, even for a lying flex, that sounds like a back handed complement.

[@kennynelson3189]

The stuff, you know, the things!

[@goldenmosquito4093]

@@kennynelson3189the things that you do,you know

[@jonathankent1517]

It's a nice way of saying "Who the fuck are you?"

[@ruthsagers1714]

That sad little self-own gets me every fucking time. The minute pause, the almost imperceptible stumble, and all he can come up with is “the… stuff you do”. It’s painful.

[@frankisnot1148]

​@@ruthsagers1714 it seemed that, for just a brief moment, he realised he was doing fuckall

[@KorvasKell]

He repeated the "My mother's very proud" line so much that I legit thought there was gonna be a reveal that his mother actually hates him or something lmao

[@KalCounty]

I'd be shocked if she didn't

[@CaptainEffort]

Holy shit I think you’re onto something

[@vincentsinclair7749]

Probably why he lies so much about what he's accomplished lmao

[@nsf001-3]

Yeah. Very Freudian

[@anomaliecosmos]

I joke that he's cursed to say it every time he lies in exchange for nobody doing the basic research to disprove him. He's a warlock giving thanks to his patron- er, matron. (No shade on his mother irl, I don't know enough about her to judge, just- the repetition of that exact wording after primarily that particular lie does make me wonder if there's some nonmagical but still mental connection)

[@mattymerr701]

It all makes a lot more sense if you assume that Tommy's memory is wiped each time he goes to sleep and he has to put together everything from context clues, each lie is just him trying to put everything together with no context

[@fraziercrawford]

Ah

[@culwin]

Every day starts with Joey calling him on the phone "wake up Tommy!"

[@None-Trick_Pony]

So, in reality, Tommy's the victim.

[@Ddub1083]

Every night he pisses all his memories away bc of the waterfall feature.

[@bruhsteven]

Memento Mori moment

[@exlicor3447]

every time he says "person who worked on the most video games in their life" i can just FEEL the npc dialogue string activate and FORCE him to say "my mothers very proud"

[@DashingSteel]

"Patrolling the videogame industry almost makes you wish your mother would be proud"

[@tinyetoile5503]

At this point I'm honestly convinced that Joey is the actual owner of that house and he just lets Tommy live in it out of pity

[@transsexual_computer_faery]

rofl

[@leoleandro2605]

Oof

[@culwin]

Tommy doesn't even exist, and Joey just created his persona as an elaborate social experiment.

[@emememememememememe]

@@culwin tommythick

[@chrispythemostfriedchicken6010]

@@transsexual_computer_faery Rolf(ox)

[@הדרהלוי-ב1ה]

It's nice that Hbomb is experimenting with short-form video. Good for him.

[@oldvlognewtricks]

The runtime is also one of Tommy’s lies

[@tomorbataar5922]

He's been cutting them down more and more but somehow he makes both the videos and the wait for them seem longer.

[@LillyP-xs5qe]

is it hadar, nice to see I ain't the only Israeli watching

[@somekidwithacomputer2939]

it’s nice to see that he’s experimenting with uploading too

[@iz2333]

It's not, I need MORE

[@stevbe1723]

About halfway through, I was so ready to write anything Tommy said off as a lie, that when the joke of "My mum is very proud" came up repeatedly, I was almost convinced it was setting up the reveal that Tommy doesn't have a mother

[@DigitalAnima]

"It all started on the day of my actual birth. Both my parents failed to show up." Tommy Tallarico, close friend of the Dalai Lama.

[@dm121984]

Or his mum has disowned him.

[@PAJAMALAND]

TOMMY WANTS MUMMY

[@drakeconsumerofsoulsandche4303]

​@@DigitalAnima "my parents died before I was born"

[@josephsmrc8588]

mommy issues being the root cause of tommy's narcissism would be so perfectly on the nose

[@gwest3644]

- Famous for works of art in which he actually had very little involvement - Popularity peaked around the late 90s/early 2000s - In his late 50s - Turned out to be a terrible person once he got on social media - Ran a crowdfunding scam based around a "family friendly" media platform that never materialized - Serial liar - Looks nearly identical Oh my god, this guy is literally Butch Hartman's alter ego

[@billyweed835]

Have we ever seen them in the same room?

[@Tech_Marauder]

Uh oh… I have some news to catch up on then… I hadn’t heard anything about misattributed fame or being a terrible person. I am aware that he’s had a couple of bad opinions on social media and the whole “family values” streaming service kickstarter that went nowhere, but that’s about it

[@Z3PHYR1TE]

​@@Tech_Marauder i believe the misattributed fame refers to him grifting off of being known for the art style in his shows when the characters were actually designed by stephen silver (particularly for danny phantom), which really puts his bragging that he "made your childhood" into perspective. him being a horrible person just refers to him saying various bigoted things on twitter as well as the incident of him joking that tara strong replacing mary kay bergman (timmy turners original VA) was the reason why the latter committed suicide, something he said during the speech bubble podcast. everything else is relatively surface level and should be easy to find with those specifics.

[@shadowpixie01]

​@@Tech_Marauder Yeah, Hartman thinks he can cure autism if I recall correctly and last I heard has allegations of selling stolen work to people who commission him

[@orestes0883]

To be fair, I don't believe that Tommy asked Roblox for $100 million. Not because I have any faith in Tommy being reasonable, but because that would mean the jackals at Roblox actually offered him $1 million, and I just don't believe that for a second.

[@ragnarockerbunny]

That Roblox wanted to underpay him is probably the only believable thing about that story, but at this point Tommy could tell me the sky is blue and I would need to check

[@midn8588]

Tbh 50k for a single sound effect seems quite generous to me, especially for something they probably remade in 30 seconds.

[@IDWpresents]

Note that what Tommy actually said was "at least 100 times", which means it easily could have been more

[@orestes0883]

@IDWpresents Good point, maybe he did ask for $100 mil then 🤣

[@edgarallenhoe3518]

@@IDWpresents true, but i wouldn't be surprised if that was an exaggeration as well

[@IanWatson]

1:47:55 Why the hell is Tommy crediting himself as Tommy V. Tallarico when we can see on court documents at 1:37:06 that his middle name is Andrew? Is Tommy claiming that his middle name is "Videogames"?

[@XanthinZarda]

Guess who's father was an uncreative hack when it came to naming his son?

[@TemmiePlays]

bc his middle name is two parts. Tommy Walter andrew Tallerico so can see why he has just change dit to V

[@mikafizz1022]

​@@TemmiePlays What?

[@culwin]

@@mikafizz1022 Attempt at a joke that his initials are T.W.A.T.

[@culwin]

His father is Thomas V. and the whole family was involved in Tommy's companies at times. So someone probably got the two names mixed up.

[@_hyva_]

A few days ago, it was discovered that Tommy Tallarico's work on Sonic and the Black Knight is 100% stolen. He’s namely credited for the songs, "The Cauldron," which is a rearrangement of the 10th track in the ost for the PC game, Adrenix, "Molten Mine," which is a rearrangement of the song "Action Theme" from the ost for the PS1/SEGA Saturn game, Black Dawn, and "Great Megalith," which is a rearrangement of the 6th track in the ost for the same game. All three of these songs were composed by Todd Dennis, who worked at Tommy Tallarico studios when composing for those games. Tommy was credited as the composer for all three of these songs, with the arrangements coming from Sonic Team veteran, Jun Senoue. Tommy Tallarico had no part in creating any of the music for Sonic and the Black Knight. His studio owns the music that was arranged into these three songs, so thankfully it’s not an instance of plagiarism, but it's another example of Tommy Tallarico claiming credit for something he didn't do. He didn't just claim to be the first American to work on Sonic despite only working on Black Knight, he claimed this despite never working on Black Knight, or any Sonic game, at all.

[@samuelbarber6177]

At this point I’m starting to doubt whether he ever worked on any video-games whatsoever. Or even that his name is Tommy.

[@_hyva_]

@@samuelbarber6177 Or if he has a mother. Or if he uses a bathroom. Or if Tommy wants money. Or if he's the first ever American. You can't trust anything he says anymore.

[@toe_sucker_4165]

God, it's so Tallaricover

[@tigaliyt]

I love that OST and like these songs, I was wondering who I should give credit to. Talk about a whacky story, eh.

[@littlefieryone2825]

Thanks Sonic, we can always trust you.

[@BirchMonkey857]

Imagine a world where instead of being incredibly weird about it, when he found out about Roblox's use of it he _contacted Joey since he most likely was the one to do the work on it_ and _asked what HE wants to do about it._ That'd be a reasonable, adult response to that, wouldn't it?

[@XavIsOnline]

No one with an iota of power can be normal

[@nicholasgerry8247]

I half expected him to debunk his mother being proud of him before the end of it

[@megancress1384]

"For this next section I had Kat call Tommy's mother who agreed on an interview"

[@thatdude337]

​@@megancress1384"He is my greatest disappointment." -Mother Tallarico, probably

[@Cebollas]

assuming he didn't lie about having a mother

[@BeyondBlue22]

@@Cebollas Motherless behavior

[@ashikjaman1940]

​@@Cebollas is his name even Tommy?

[@Homeostasisis]

what really fascinates me about Tommy is how humble he is. I'm surprised he doesn't mention it more

[@Sugarman96]

He only really mentions that his mother's proud, but that's about it.

[@Sheila_Chu]

he actually won the award for most humble person 4 years in a row! His mom is very proud

[@Whatlander]

This was genuinely _wild_ to watch. So proud that I made this video all by myself.

[@NoJusticeMTG]

I hope your mother's very proud

[@Akechifan]

*We* worked on this video

[@namewarvergeben]

So, I met the Dalai Lama in London. He likes my videos

[@anemicunicorn1923]

One of the first Americans to work on this video too

[@rfkwouldvebeenaok1008]

Dude you did a really good job too. Very well researched!

[@jakipop3397]

"I created and Joey edited" is also really, really bizzare phrasing, honestly, coming from a sound engineer. The more you think about it, the less sense it makes. Because, like, when you're a sound engineer, what other work is there to do on a sound, but record or edit it? In fact, I'd say most of the craftsmanship and artistry in the work comes from editing. Unless Tommy means 'created', as in 'made' the sound, as in, he said "oof", but apart from that idea being really funny, there's not much merit to that since we know that's not the case.

[@hithedragon7842]

That's what I was thinking...I assumed he meant that he actually made the sound. It seemed like the only logical meaning for that. At least the only one where you could reasonably say it was a team effort.

[@simpaticoviolento]

This has to be a Guiness's world record for most watched video on youtube ᵃᵇᵒᵘᵗ ᵀᵒᵐᵐʸ ᵀᵃˡᵃʳᶦᶜᵒ

[@coingamerthysecond]

Now THAT'S a record!

[@simpaticoviolento]

His mother is very eager for him to move out :) @@coingamerthysecond

[@PlasticChaser]

2 million views!!! That's right you heard me!! 18 million views!!!!

[@frightenedsoul]

@@PlasticChaserI can’t believe it has 200 million views!

[@ItzGuerrero]

@@PlasticChaser700000 people outside the host server I'm sure Harris's mother is very proud.

[@imaginaryboy2000]

The reason Tommy gave Melee a 2.5 is because he lost to Miyamoto play-testing it while he and Miyamoto worked hand-in-hand on Metroid Prime. Losing in Smash for 5 years has gotta be rough.

[@adrianomaly1760]

Well you gotta remember they were both playing one handed and miyamoto got to use his right hand while Tommy had to use his left /I jest

[@Tsarius11]

The other host gave melee a 3.0 though. I feel like they're just not the target audience and let their personal bias overwhelm their ratings.

[@Duskool]

Gotta wonder how much Tommy would succ Smash Ultimate off now that it's a popular, widely beloved game, with an equally beloved series of games

[@feritperliare2890]

@@Tsarius11 to be fair the game is rough and janky but people love it to this day for it

[@timebender25]

If he had beat Miyamoto, he's have also beaten Toby Fox to getting a song into a Pokemon game.

[@TheOfficialPSI]

That meme from a few years ago of "______ been real quiet since this dropped" Was made for this video. Tommy has been practically hiding underground in Antarctica since this video came out. Which is good, because there aren't any waterfalls in Antarctica, so at least he doesn't spend as much time in the bathroom anymore.

[@burtonfzz]

I can understand how much damage he might have done, but this story is so unreal so I kept thinking to myself that maybe he has some kind of untreated medical condition or something? The scale of lying is on such absurd level so it overwhelming. On the other hand he is not the first man on earth who behaves like that, isn’t he? Maybe there is an anthropological or social or biological reason for behaving like that? Like some Cuckoo bird laying their eggs in other species nests or something like that? I can’t understand that and try to find SOME KIND of rational explanation because I can’t wrap my head around this story and my mind can’t figure out how is that even possible.

[@gsqussy]

@@burtonfzz its just textbook narcissism.

[@hibye-ht1fr]

​@@burtonfzzRich people with no meaningful life or achievements need to feel something you know

[@burtonfzz]

@@hibye-ht1fr I don't know, seems like even without his lies he achieved a lot for my taste. He is a musician, a composer, performed with orchestra his music, his music was used in games, he worked with great people a (I hope) helped them in some way to achieve their goals and (I hope) helped to create great games people like. Without lies, he looks like a professional in a field and many companies should want to work with him like they want with other musicians, composers, etc etc. One of the first concerning things - is an extremely expensive house and a Ferrari (maybe rented for a video, maybe he had bought it). He created a level of life that is hard to maintain even if you are a high-paid professional. I don't know, some things just didn't sum up in my mind and don't fit in a "simple" explanation. And I know that some medical conditions exist, which can be psychological or physiological in nature. Maybe I am wrong, but I try to understand this for myself first, and I have no clear explanation and that is part of my own research of why people do injustice and "bad" things in the first place. For some reason I don't do this thing, I don't steal, but I know that there are people who do that, I don't harm other people, but I know that there are people who feel fine doing that and I try to understand what move people to do harmful things because I don't do it for some reason, so there must be a reason who some people do? Or we all should fall into nihilism and stop caring? I don't know =(

[@christopher_graffam]

Fun fact, Antarctica has a five-story tall waterfall called Blood Falls due to the water being filled with iron oxide. I realize that this is somewhat beside the point, but I just think it’s a neat bit of trivia.

[@ИгнатСерый-ы6н]

I often put videos on the background when I'm doing something, but yours completely caught my attention! English is not my first language, but you speak so clearly and understandable that it was as if I was listening in my native language! I am reviewing this video for the second time and I am sure that I will review it again, thank you very much for your work!!

[@NosebleeddeGroselha]

For real. My English was pretty good before I started watching Hbomberguy’s videos, but after it improved incredibly. He enunciates every word super well while not talking slow, he has great rhythm and he’s funny to top it off. I even caught a bit of a British accent for a while after watching the RWBY video for the first time 😂

[@biggestp0ser]

i love this comment this is awesome. happy for you man

[@JacobHillSBD]

I can’t believe that Tommy Tallerico was the first American! His mother must be very proud.

[@AlashiaTuol]

Plot twist: she's actually very proud of Joey

[@Officewaffle]

I can't believe tommy was the first person

[@Patodeagua213]

@@AlashiaTuol plot twist twist: tommy tallarico mother is instaed joey mother

[@jc_art_]

​@@Patodeagua213joey is tommys father, and has been all along

[@DevilTheIdiot]

@@Officewaffle can't believe Tommy invented gravity

[@morgansimpson1843]

There's one small thing that Tommy says that bothers me every time I watch this video. For background, I'm an attorney. He says he has about 20 attorneys working for him. I'm going to take an educated guess and say that he doesn't. He probably hired a law firm consisting of about 20 attorneys. That does not mean that all 20 of those attorneys are working on his case. Probably around 3 to 4 attorneys are working on it. Usually, you would only have 20 attorneys representing somebody if that somebody is a huge corporation and the law firm is a huge international one. Just a small, petty thing I noticed.

[@XanthinZarda]

I'm going to be even more petty. I don't think Tallarico has any _personal_ lawyers on retainer. See, I think being the wealthy Old Money inheritance type he is, having barely worked a day in his entire life, he has instead relied on the work of others to nearly the entirety of his possible ability. Why hire a lawyer when he could have got pops to speak on his behalf? (2009, United States vs Tallarico 1:10-MJ-00479) or simply reuse the retainer that Tallarico Studios has to hand?

[@marpinteacup6395]

Or he could be doing an Alex Jones and has just gone through that many attornies

[@Pineappolis]

I have no professional or academic background in law and yet it's also the thing he says that bothers me most as well. Like, as XanthinZarda hints at above me, the way he says it makes it sound like he has at least 20 lawyers _on personal retainer,_ which might be more insane than all his other lies put together for, I mean, any number of reasons. Of course, while it _sounding_ like that doesn't mean he _meant_ it like that but, given everything else, I think I'm on pretty solid ground believing that that's, give or take, what he meant to imply.

[@Cheezbuckets]

I thought the “I have SO MANY attorneys, you guys!” was a weird flex, but I don’t know enough about the field to know whether it was plausibly true for a rich weirdo like Tommy, so thank you for the knowledge!

[@marpinteacup6395]

@@Pineappolis I wonder if he just means that as like a total of all the lawyers he's ever worked with or thought of working with. And he just thinks that because they exist in his mind they all exist in real life just as he sees them in his mind. Why wouldn't all the lawyers in the world be working for this guy who has a very, very, very proud mom? Surely that is the only reason anything exists, because of this one man!

[@nebufabu]

For me, the funniest part is still one where he thinks he invented a clever life hack, when in fact he confesses to a well-known kind of money laundering right in front of the feds. *Falsely confesses.*

[@samt3412]

At some point in the video, Tommy's lies get so absurd that you have to wonder if lying for literally no reason is his true passion in life, far exceeding his work on video games

[@crow5946]

@@samt3412 it's crazy because lying got him in even more trouble than if he had just told the truth. He cannot physically stop himself from lying. I choose to believe every time he stutters and looks away from the camera right before he tells a lie, it's him fighting the urge and losing

[@magnusengeseth5060]

@@samt3412 Lying for no reason, or for such miniscule gains in reputation that it's essentially worthless, was how everyone became aware of the 2-3 known pathological liars I went to school with. Even 30 years later I still remember how a new guy in my friend group said he was hanging out with a guy we both knew when I called him and asked what he was doing - a guy who happened to be standing right next to me when I made the call. It almost made me offended that he would lie about something so mundane, and with such a high risk of being found out. Like, at least claim that you were somehow on a date with one of the hot girls none of us dared to talk to back then if you're gonna lie! I wouldn't have believed that either, but at least it would have been difficult to fact check.

[@juliamavroidi8601]

​@@crow5946it's called pathological lying. It's a thing

[@VitaeLibra]

​@@crow5946Aren't you guys just describing pathological liars?

[@elementalsgami1]

Okay, so I checked Guinness's website cuz I was like, "No, hbomberguy, surely you didn't send his record to the Shadow Realm, it must've been a glitch or something!" and, uh, ONLY ONE SHOWS UP NOW. It's ONLY the "Most Video Game Concerts" one! The other two are fucking gone! WHAT!?!

[@lyndislegion287]

Lol it's true. When you search for him, only the one mentioned by OP appears (and another of some German dog and its handler for some reason)

[@squidsbizarreadventure]

This video gets better with every rewatch, because of comments like this

[@Raequorum]

I double checked this, sorry to say Tommy still has two records up on Guiness' site. The second VGL record doesn't come up when you search up Tommy Tallarico. Only when I typed in "Video Games Live (VGL)" did I find it.

[@Marsaw]

No, the record for biggest live show doesn’t show up when you search him by name because it doesn’t mention his name, but it’s the first result if you search “Video Games Live”. This is mentioned in the video and still true (I just checked)

[@TheSporeCell]

Deducting points from Tommy Tallarico Studios because he didnt name his company Tallari Co.

[@yeethittter1285]

Man can't even NAME shit right. Embarrasing

[@ppom]

Awesome, I'm taking points off for the fact that he's Tommy fucking Tallarico

[@TheSporeCell]

@@ppom Fair

[@SlothTalismanHater]

He's at 2.5/10 rn

[@connorambrosino1741]

Yeah, but then his full name wouldn't be front and center and we know the owner of 7 different Guiness world records whos been on MTV cribs multiple times can't have that. No siree.

[@isabellesmith7578]

damn I can't believe Tommy Tallarico wrote the script and did the music and visuals for this highly informative video essay. his mother must be so proud.

[@subekyuuke]

Unrelated but is that a Wakasagihime pfp? based

[@Coconut_Prrson]

Let's give him a new Guinea's world record for highest viewed hbomberguy video that starts with the letter R

[@Zebra_M]

Oof

[@point3612]

@@subekyuuke classic 2hu hijack

[@pe1900]

i wouldn't say so proud, i'd say very proud

[@Astro_Crunch]

What's especially funny about his supposed Miyamoto anecdote is that it sounds like the exact opposite of Miyamoto's personality and management style. Every other story anyone else has told about Miyamoto mentions how particular he is, especially when it comes to game design. He prioritizes gameplay above all else. There is no way in frozen hell that Miyamoto would have aspects of the gameplay be determined by the sound effects alone.

[@AnEmu404]

Exactly what i was thinking when i first heard him mention Miyamoto!

[@THB192]

That and Miyamoto's management style seems to be to walk in, give cryptic advice and suggestions, walk away, and let the team figure out what he was trying to say.

[@Astro_Crunch]

@@THB192 yeah, the real Miyamoto blows cigarette smoke in his employees' faces while telling them about the cool tree he saw the other day

[@THB192]

@@Astro_Crunch I think he quit smoking a while back, but I'm 90% sure you're referencing a real story from the development of Star Fox.

[@Astro_Crunch]

@@THB192 yup, I love that story so much

[@wich3171]

I was at a barbecue with someone who composes music for video games, and I was very excited to speak to him about Tommy because he knew him. He said that it was a running joke in the industry for people to guess which projects Tommy actually worked on. He said they figured it was Tony Hawk, and I had to break it to him that even that is in doubt. Also, everyone in the industry thinks it’s very stupid for him to be receiving awards from his own network. Anyway, that’s the tea I learned!

[@wobinwobinwobin]

I was in the choir for one of the VGL concerts. Each choir was contracted in the city where the show was playing. I distinctly remember him telling the audience that the choir had spent MONTHS learning the Russian words to the Tetris theme when 1. we had never spoken to him about it and 2. we spent maybe three rehearsals learning all the music because none of it was hard

[@XanthinZarda]

Were you paid for the trouble?

[@wobinwobinwobin]

@@XanthinZarda Nope!

[@mediabreakdown8963]

@@wobinwobinwobin Wait, WHAT? You said contracted…then he stuffed you on the money?

[@wobinwobinwobin]

@@mediabreakdown8963 Sorry, I wasn't clear! I do believe the choir association was paid but the singers personally did not see any money, as things like that go towards subsidizing our membership.

[@mediabreakdown8963]

@@wobinwobinwobin No need to apologize. That sadly sounds about right.

[@ToozdaysChild]

At this point I don't even believe Tommy's mother has ever been proud of him.

[@lindseyclair921]

++++

[@JFast-si8xu]

You still believe Tommy has mother. I don't

[@danni3387]

The important question is: does he even sometimes have to pee in the middle of the night?

[@tilly3702]

His name probably isnt even Tommy

[@merrittanimation7721]

Is he even human?!

[@parknplay8328]

You know the coolest thing Joey Kuras did was not publicly coming out and saying "Hey no I made that". Because he doesn't care about clout. He puts what he works on in his official resume for potential employers and corrects people about mislabeling work he was officially credited for on the packaging. He isn't out here trying to look cool, he's just doing his job well and extremely professionally. Actual chad.

[@notsusan]

his mom is actually proud

[@ioele1000]

He should though. Since he knows the truth, he should put it out there or Tommy’s version will stand as the only “truth”.

[@parknplay8328]

​@@ioele1000 I just respect his professionalism to not care about chasing clout and only cared about continuing to do his job well

[@conork6743]

Lol

[@ccricers]

He doesn't even list Metroid Prime in his portfolio site since it's not that significant to him.

[@MaytayMaya]

I could just imagine Tommy's mother: "Why couldn't you be more like Joey? He was the first American to work on Sonic the Hedgehog, He was on the original team for Tony Hawk Pro Skater, He worked HAND IN HAND with Miyamoto on Metroid Prime, He made the Roblox oof and bent time and space to cram 700,000 people into the Bird's Nest!"

[@Patch-lz9yi]

"I'll just watch a small bit of this again" I thought, fully aware that I'd rewatch the whole thing again.

[@bitnev]

Same. Again.

[@ND-nr6mx]

When the whole spaghetti turns out to be one long noodle.

[@alexjewett7455]

Always.

[@ButterStick64]

Me with the Plagarism Video, 19 times.

[@lyndislegion287]

It's currently 1am and I still have an hour runtime left help

[@MelanieSmitsMel]

Hats off to the accountant giving us the "TOMMY WANTS MONEY" line

[@nicholasvalentino4378]

I'm pretty sure he's the new CEO now that Tommy stepped down and just as shady.

[@norbicsek]

You mean _they_ gave us the "TOMMY WANTS MONEY" line, meaning the company that's run by Tommy and employs the accountant, so it may be the accountant, or it may be Tommy, who knows... In conclusion, hats off to Tommy for giving us the "TOMMY WANTS MONEY" line.

[@ccricers]

Is it really the new CEO? I saw him in live streams and he looks a lot older. But he absolutely is shady and I think this is when the company went full on scammer mode. Tommy may be incompetent at running a console business, but his heart was true and really wanted to make the console. The other board members don't care and they just rode the gravy train

[@culwin]

@@nicholasvalentino4378 Yes it's CEO Phil Adam who made his whole career by being tangentially associated with Tetris. He also was involved in the Coleco Chameleon scam, which is another scam with a funny story behind it.

[@chloejessica7961]

the delivery couldn't have been better if it was scripted

[@trippwraze1509]

20 minutes into the video: “Oh, so Tommy lied about where the Oof sound came from.” An hour later: “Oh, so Tommy lied about…everything.”

[@ctographerm3285]

His mother is very proud

[@exotic1405]

Makes him want to piss at night

[@christopher6600]

@@ctographerm3285 At this point I don't even think Tommy *has* a mom.

[@Croatilillious]

@@christopher6600 i don't even think tommy pisses

[@ChimeraMK]

@@Croatilillious A man named Tommy Tallarico doesn't even exist in the gaming industry. The entity known as Tommy just one day appeared and demanded everyone to make stuff in games. The people could see through the creatures lies but were too scared to deny the strange figure its demands.

[@MaxLennon]

8:45 An underrated line that gets overlooked in the ensuing Tallarico Train Wreck™ is "VGL is universally recognized among gamers as a thing they think they remember hearing about, that seems nice. ☺" That was an uncannily accurate reflection of how I reacted the first time it was brought up in the video.

[@hooting-ton5215]

1:24:47 It's so weird how Tommy's chosen lie is: "We never reviewed smash bros." and not like: "I thought I rated it higher." or "It was scripted to say 'give it a low score'."

[@georgelloydgonzalez]

Because by saying that, he'd still be admitting to making a mistake. And Tommy Tallarico does not lose. /s

[@fredfuckstone914]

@@georgelloydgonzalez Unflappable. Until he got flapped really hard and deleted all his socials.

[@readycheddar]

Pathological liars tend to do that. The lies just get bigger and bigger. It sounds like he heard that before and needed to lie about it previously so what we heard was probably the fourth or fifth version of the lie. The thing is with them, people hardly ever call them out about their lies on the spot so they think they can get away with more and more outlandish versions of the lie. I actually think these people need some kind of mental health help. They’re unhappy with themselves and want/need people to think they’re better than they are. Obviously that isn’t healthy.

[@Zamtrios245]

I can't remember the full thing, but that's basically the very first line in something called "the narcissists' prayer" "I didn't do that, but if I did, it was justified"

[@BelBelle468]

Or he could just be cool and say “I changed my mind. It grew on me, I just needed more time to play it”. Admitting wrongdoing and saying that they only had a short time to review the content would make ppl give him a bit of slack.

[@andythedishwasher1117]

If we paid Guinness enough, do you think they would give Tommy a record for Most Prolific Liar About Video Game Sound Effects And Music?

[@KateCat420]

I want this to happen so badly

[@AwesomeFreakMadd]

crowdfund this. i've got ten dollars 😆

[@andythedishwasher1117]

@@AwesomeFreakMadd If there is interest, I may just do that!

[@whatdontyoufuckingunderstand]

as long as he and todd howard fight over who gets it

[@AwesomeFreakMadd]

@@andythedishwasher1117 😆

[@asecretthirdthing]

As horrible as it is that Joey Kuras doesn't get the credit he deserves (and he definitely should), you have to admire with how much grace and dignity he's handled all of this

[@lyndonwesthaven6623]

Aw, right? Making a small comment on the streaming platform to set the record straight that immediately circles to celebrating people's enjoyment of his work seems even more wholesome after, y'know, the whole video

[@nitrobw1]

Anybody who can deal with Tommy for 13 years must have the patience of a saint

[@angelagwen1818]

I don't know him nor anything about the industry but I'd imagine if you made a nice living from it and either were well enough to retire or still getting steady work, why bother caring about some weirdo claiming credit? You have the proof you did the work you did so you have a solid resume. And if Tony wants to LARP a successful career man that's his prerogative

[@ds4251]

I doubt he's even *aware* because why would he be? He's still working steadily, it was some shit he did in the 90s, most people would probably just go "oh that's neat" and move on

[@gstvntt]

there's probably hush money involved

[@ratchetintellectual]

just realized during the Tony Hawk Pro Skater video clips, you never see Tommy actually preform any full body skateboard tricks, it always cuts to feet then his face then feet. He lyin about being about to skateboard like it don't stop

[@TheDarthbinky]

Fun fact - Tommy doesn't even have a mother. Joey created him... it's always Joey...

[@Elpeligrito]

Joey's mother is very proud.

[@Nintentheheartless]

Tommy is actually Joey's Tyler Durden

[@Eboyleful]

I was honestly surprised that didn't come up. That and "Tommy V. Tallarico" -- I was half expecting a "by the way, we checked and his middle name is Kevin."

[@peterprime2140]

@@Eboyleful His middle name is apparently Andrew, so he is kind of lying about it.

[@KittyKatty999]

You mean Joey Drew from Bendy and The Ink Machine!? :O

[@KippyDemo]

If Hbomb ever makes his own website for whatever reason, he should make a section titled "helicopters I've piloted" full of pictures of helicopters with his face poorly photoshopped in the cockpits

[@SkyKidShyKid]

PLEASE.

[@kouusa]

Or himself AS the helicopter!

[@hyperstormx3194]

Bonus points if at least some of them are on fire

[@thewinter_]

he does have a website and god damn those pictures should be there

[@jimstantinople]

It's 7 pictures of the same 2 helicopters but from different angles

[@davidthiel5186]

You have to remember that back in the day game companies wanted to keep their talent anonymous. After Warren, Jeff and I created Q*bert we were interviewed by game magazines. Gottlieb (owned by Columbia Pictures at that time) insisted that we use pseudonyms instead of our real names. Warren was D'ziner, Jeff was R'tiste and I was J Walkman. There were no credits on the game at that time, I was DDT in the default high score table. This situation fueled my dissatisfaction with my employee status and I left 12 months later. And trust me there was very little that a musician could do for a video game in the period of 1975- 1980. The technology was marginally there. Most of the cutting edge sound work was in Japan and Chicago (pinball). More evidence that Mr. T is telling porkies.

[@Ghostabo]

Oh wow, I opened this video randomly despite watching it months ago, only to discover this tiny piece of history in the comments! That's super interesting, thanks for your input! I hope hbomberguy gets to read what you said

[@AamuAurora]

I hope everyone sees it

[@thewildblueone5341]

@@AamuAurora LET'S UPVOTE AND REPLY TO THIS TO MAKE SURE IT GETS THE ATTENTION IN DESERVES!!!!!

[@popoeti3215]

Why would they want to keep the people anonymous?

[@Masolaaine]

@@popoeti3215 Propably talent hoarding. Video games werent such a sexy field that it is today.

[@nathanhampton1863]

I don't know how many times I've watched this video, but I just realized something. If Tommy were to extend his loose qualifications for "games he has worked on" to include any game with his sound effects, then he could claim that he has worked on millions of Roblox games.

[@korhonenmikko]

"The Dalai Lama liked my video game music" is an insanely funny claim to make.

[@pikachucetthesecond4296]

It's made even funnier by the fact it was a wax statue of the Dalai Lama

[@ididntknowtheyhadwifiinhell]

to be fair, the Dalai Lama got suckered into working with NXIVM. i know the Tommy version was bullshit, but we may be giving the Dalai Lama too much credit regardless

[@nsf001-3]

"Weird flex, but okay"

[@Hysteria98]

"So here's that time I gave the Pope Undertale"...

[@BarioIDL]

"the pope liked my game(and its) music" is a claim a person can make

[@jakesmith2856]

I personally wanna thank Tommy Tallarico for making this video. I hope he adds it to his resume.

[@talbotbluechel2102]

I mean, he did appear in it several times, that's basically the same as writing producing and editing it.

[@kriz1541]

His mother must be very proud

[@Eh-nj4qj]

He clicked play that’s another soundtrack for a game produced

[@jelicefante]

He worked hand-in-hand with Harris for 5 weeks to create this video 😂

[@nicholasvalcour6068]

Tommy paid hbomberguy to make this art project satirizing his critics. That's the what he'll say when he puts a link to this on his website.

[@trumpeterjen]

1:52:41 - "...and it honestly, on a spiritual level, fills me with immense grief thinking about the people who made the things I care about dying unrecognized for what they did and being forgotten." This line hits extra hard after the release of his recent plagiarism video. It's clearer than ever just how sincere he is about this.

[@AliceClow]

Also brings to mind Defunctland’s Disney Channel theme video

[@alicemalice1047]

Hope you heal one day dude

[@Oldass_Deadass_dumbass_channel]

​@@alicemalice1047?

[@Reagord]

1:47:31 He even gives a throwaway joke saying he "plagiarized" two authors for this section of the video, and credits them very directly. He felt awkward about how much he leaned on their work in 10ish minutes of a nearly 2 hour long smear peice that he felt the need to make a self-deprecating joke. THAT is the level of difference in respect he has for his media/journalistic peers and his own ethics compared to the people he's covering

[@SypherKyaeon]

I've not seen anyone else say it, so I'm gonna: The Wilhelm scream is very funny, but dude's imitation of it for RotJ is so much funnier. He gave 110% and made absolute comedy gold. Also, somehow Shigeru Miyamoto outsourcing the music for Prime onto some American rando is both believable and not for the same reason: he doesn't give one single iota of a fuck about Metroid.

[@SeannyOg]

We're very sorry that hbomberguy's video resulted in us removing one of Tommy's records. As compensation we would like to present him with the "Person Whose Mom Is Most Proud Of Him" Guinness World Record. Which we totally verified. Honest.

[@sexybabemagnetminato]

she was probably proud of Joey

[@cephaleaorion4888]

"scouts honor"

[@BenGras]

“Person who has had most records invalidated”

[@arcticcircle9178]

@@BenGras Nah, I think that honor belongs to Todgers. Tommy "My mom is very proud" Tallarico is probably in the running though.

[@thabigleftcheek2469]

Tod Todgers??

[@MM-rc7zv]

"I was happily married to Shigeru Miyamoto for forty years."

[@nejdalej]

Are you sure it wasn't Joey who was actually married to Shigeru Miyamoto? 🤔

[@armenianrussian]

@@nejdalej IT'S ALWAYS JOEY

[@colebresnehen38]

“My mother *was* very proud”

[@affinitycrafts1068]

"**We** were happily married to Shigeru Miyamoto for forty years."

[@MM-rc7zv]

@@affinitycrafts1068 Ménage à Tallarico

[@manatca]

The fact that the takedown of Guinness as a legitimate records company (and the subsequent eradication of one of Tommy Tallarico's supposed records!) is basically a minor aside in this 2-hour-long biopic just cements it as one of the most rewatchable video essays/full-on documentaries on KZbin. Well done, Kat! If we've learned anything from this, it's that you did all of the work!

[@Hexagonaldonut]

Two of them, actually! The attendance record for VGL has also now apparently been sent to the shadow realm!

[@Blueeyesthewarrior]

@@Hexagonaldonut Ah, nature is healing.

[@KangarooKommando]

Tommy's bio page now says he has 5 records as well

[@OnnieKoski]

I’ve watched this video so many times 😅

[@Lady8D]

@@OnnieKoski You and I both, between here and Nebula I've watched it approximately 7 sss Quadspillion times 😁 And I'm not even interested in any of the topics outside of this video - idk how we (aka they...aka Kat) managed to make an Hbomberguy video so addictive 🤯 but I'm glad they did

[@HarrisBoe]

What I find interesting is the numbers made by the Amico crowdfunding campaigns. The Fig fundraiser that made over $7 million was raised by 13k people, meaning an average of $500 per person. The Republic fundraiser that made over 11.5 million dollars was funded by only 9.4k people, an average of almost $1.25k per person. These aren’t just random members of the public. These aren’t middle-class parents who want a more family-friendly game console. Either these are high-income individuals Tommy knows personally, or Tommy made fake accounts to invest in his own product and drum up hype. I’d like to see someone look into the accounts of the people who invested in the Amico.

[@bigbearkat2010]

A fair point I didn't think about before, though I will admit I kept thinking 18 million was an insane amount of crowdfunding to raise for a game system that actively brags about not having online play and was piggybacking off a brand used in the 80s.

[@gateroozeink5061]

It was primarily driven by the ultra-scammy Neil Patel and Teeka Tiwari, who targeted low-info retirees with their "investment newsletters".

[@BlueGuy98]

Tommy Tallarico is literally the Butch Hartman of video games. Huge ego, lying about or exaggerating his role in the industry, a failed crowdfunding campaign, the list goes on.

[@TaxEvasionUS]

Kinda looks like him too

[@HappehMasterChannel]

Reminds me of Derek Savage in appearance and attitude

[@Chudpope]

@@TaxEvasionUS Have we ever actually confirmed they're two different people? I've never seen them together in the same room...

[@marcelkirch6805]

They sound kinda similar

[@setheus]

He also reminds me of the director of Escape From Tomorrow, Randy Moore, especially the whole repeating his One Funny Phrase every interview

[@THATGuy5654]

"It only takes one person to hit "save" on a file, and that's the one thing you know Joey did." I'm imagining Tommy and Joey, one's hand entwined with the other's, slowly and sensually moving the mouse across the mouse pad, as "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" plays.

[@edgarallenhoe3518]

The whole description Tommy gives of him creating the sound "with" Joey brings to mind the image of Tommy, overbearing boss, looking over Joey's shoulder and micromanaging his creative process as he tries to do his job.

[@Anno_Al]

Underrated comment

[@fauxrowsdower7610]

“And I owe it all to-“ “ME TOMMY TALLARICO”

[@YinnYangGMD]

tommy held ctrl while joey hit s

[@sarinabina5487]

HELP

[@hamfranky]

HBomberguy actually holds the Guiness World Record on 'The person who's worked on the longest KZbin documentary about an inconsequential subject' (his mother is very proud).

[@SimplyJustRed]

Still, she won't let him into the garage. A truly tragic story.

[@martinn.6082]

This 7 foot video makes me wanna pee at night (oddly enough)

[@abysmalist4761]

pyro did an 8 hour review of a British series no one watched

[@RalseiGaming]

@@abysmalist4761 my grandpa watched it and that’s probably the only other person to

[@MsCunningLinguistic]

This makes him a stark contrast to Brian David Gilbert, whose mother describes HIS video game videos as putting "a lot of research into things that really have very little meaning".

[@SteveMyCat]

I wonder if he forgot how to pronounce joey over time and went from Jo-We to just We. I bet his mother is very proud.

[@MalusDomestica-b1k]

Js and Os have been silent before 🤷‍♀

[@GoldenTerrabyte]

Why is Tommy Tallarico the same genre of guy as Butch Hartman

[@ryanbarham8464]

It's the fundamental Christianity. EDIT: Also, the Amico bears an uncanny resemblance to Oaxis...

[@stuffandstuff6682]

Oh my god I had this exact thought too

[@tsg_frank5829]

It's fraud genetics, it's like they're born with it

[@formbi]

and Todd Togers (he even had a Guinness World Record too)

[@WhatWouldJohnSay93]

Thankss the while time i thought that he reminded me If some other a hole and now i know wich one!!

[@pinklight]

After watching this entire video I'm convinced Tommy's mother is actually very proud of Joey

[@FlareStorms]

IT'S ALWAYS JOEY

[@ob2kenobi388]

Mom: "Joey, you're like the son I never had!" Tom: "But, mom... _I'm_ your son, remember?" Mom: "Yes, well, I _had_ you!"

[@eris902]

Damn, gottem

[@DoonGhard]

I'm pretty sure Tommy's mom gave birth to Joey and Tommy was the homeless guy who came in and took control over Joey's career.

[@mostmelon8243]

Tommy is Joey’s imaginary friend that went rogue.

[@niney5405]

It turns out that Tommy did not make any of the music in Black Knight, even. He composed 0 songs in Sonic and the Black Knight. The song used is an arrangement of a prior-existing 1998 song by Tony Dennis. "The Cauldron" is an arrangement of a song from the 1998 game "Adrenix" for PC. Tommy took credit because Tony Dennis WORKED at TTS.

[@auradmg]

the ride never ends

[@LiAStudios]

I suppose at least Joey got a break this time around.

[@___Somebody___]

That man gained a shit ton of money basically doing nothing I swear

[@theotv5522]

What a disgusting person I say. As an artist myself, seeing someone taking credit that others deserve hits harder than most people would think.

[@toe_sucker_4165]

It's so Tallaricover

[@jordangeer8964]

I think what makes it all the more baffling to me is it’s not like Tommy hasn’t done some *Incredibly* cool shit that is well documented. Being a well known sound designer in the video game industry and a founding part of Video Games Live is fucking awesome, why the need to inflate and outright bullshit claims about yourself when there’s plenty of actual, legit credentials you can be touting?

[@IsmailofeRegime]

We can only speculate. One thing to keep in mind is that Tallarico ascended in an industry that until the past 15 years or so was generally seen as "uncool" by mainstream pop culture, hence his "my mother's very proud" joke. It's possible he wished he was something "cooler" like a sound designer in Hollywood or a rock star, and so feels the need to make himself sound more interesting by inflating what he's done in the field of video gaming. Alternatively, he's simply a compulsive liar.

[@cryofsolace4840]

"Gaming racists" is still hilarious. It must be very hard for Tommy to be subject to anti tallarico discrimination

[@xXxzAAa0aAAzxXx]

its funny because in Brazil "talarico" is a slang term for someone who gets with someone's partner

[@jackporter2251]

I prefer the term 'gacists'

[@wallyboyd]

@@xXxzAAa0aAAzxXxthe final lie is his surname, and it's really just a sick joke about how he cucks people out of credit for their work

[@kit-kat-114]

In the words of Contrapoints, "He's the most vulnerable minority. I mean, there's only one of him."

[@saladman420]

@@wallyboydim a proud gaming racist 😱😱😱

[@bonesofanidol]

Update: Tommy's mother saw this video and she's no longer proud of him

[@cybercop0083]

She came around, after Tommy worked on an additional one trillion games

[@Conceissa]

@@cybercop0083 And he worked hand in hand with his mother, because TOMMY WANTS MOMMY!

[@janstefanisin320]

I would be kinda surprised if he ever had a mother.

[@antagonizingprotagonist8721]

Best comment lol

[@paolo2763]

"You're so grounded young man!"

[@eagletscosplaycloset3793]

If the Amico becomes an actual thing, every game available for the console will be added to Tommy’s list of games he’s worked on.

[@XanthinZarda]

That was literally his plan. Thankfully, the Amico has no path to manufacturing and is missing enough certifications to make a milk carton missing kid blush.

[@Noreillay]

Oh yeah, he claimed he would be the game designer for every game on the Amico (that was a lie) and that he would write music and produce sound effects for every game (he didn't).

[@boar6615]

given his track record, i dont think that would stop him from putting them in there anyways lol

[@imaginaryboy2000]

@@Noreillay Well to be fair, every game that's been released for the Amico has Tommy's name on it, even if that number's 0

[@ShinoSarna]

No... literally. Notice how list of games he worked on has expanded by like 40 entries while working on Amico? Because he would've been in their credits once they release.

[@dreamcaught3876]

52:20 i’m just so in love with the fact that tommy can’t even come up with what he’s done that shigeru miyamoto might be familiar with

[@pantalonesdemuerto7960]

He wants us to think that he's the Elon Musk of video game sound effects. Unfortunately for him, he's merely the Elon Musk of video game sound effects.

[@LT.SeaGull]

Elon Musk (Derogatory)

[@T2002W]

In terms of shitty attitude, I suppose he is indeed the Elon Musk of video game sound effects.

[@Mariseaninikkou]

Oof

[@Sandux930]

He's the Yoko Ono of video games 😂

[@kozhedub]

This comment was so brilliant, I saw it earlier and just now repeated it to my roommate and felt compelled to come back and tell you how excellent it is. I hope Harris sees it lol

[@Goose_BooseYT]

Honestly, Tommy could've lived his life as just a well respected video games musician had he not lied about literally everything. Like, I'm not even saying he should be a saint or anything, but if he were just honest and truthful, the worst thing he could ever be known for was for giving Melee a 2.5, which is something he could've owned up to and probably merchandised. Instead he lied about it ever existing, he lied about making the OOF, he took credit for everything his coworker ever made, and now he's being exposed for fraud. It really isn't that hard to just not lie, but if I had to guess, Tommy's got issues.

[@auracle6184]

That's the crushing low self-esteem. No matter what he's done, he sees himself as not enough, so he can't help always building on the lie. It's how he went from not being on Cribs, to "yeah I was" to "a couple of times" and you can see in his face that he knows it's a lie. It's one of the few times where he's visibly aware and ashamed of what he's saying. He pauses before saying it because he knows how ridiculous it is but he can't help himself.

[@monty58]

It sounds like he's a pathological liar that's just scrambling to keep up with the shit he makes up

[@chubomikz7104]

That's what gets me too. There are things that he *has* legitimately accomplished and can be proud of: owning a moderately successful video game sound studio, being a prolific composer in his own right, and forming an orchestra specifically for video game music is a really cool idea. There is no reason *at all* for the *extent* of things that he has made up about himself. The fake Guinness World Records and repurposed house tour footage were sad, but the claiming of credit for others' work and lying about who was employed at his company were straight-up vile.

[@monty58]

@@chubomikz7104 the problem is, he probably got there by lying. Lying about his capabilities, job history, resources, contacts. Its likely he escaped consequences early by legitimately being talented enough to cover for the fact that he lied, but that couldn't last forever.

[@devilmikey00]

Yup, up until about 2018 everyone simply accepted what he'd put out into the world. Some folks behind the scenes had some horror stories but otherwise his own mythmaking had worked. Then the Amico happened (this video barely scraped the surface about how deep of a scam that thing was, it's worthy of a 2 hour video in it's own right), the OOF thing and his story came crashing down. Now, from what I understand, he might actually be in a some financial trouble since he's been found out to be auctioning off some of that memorabilia from his house recently. On top of that, his reputation is irrevocably damaged which I imagine isn't going to help his Video Games Live shows which he's back to doing after stepping away from the Amico debacle.

[@kozhedub]

It's weird to hear a sound engineer referring to pitching down and balancing the EQ as "a bunch of crazy things" like that's literally just doing your job

[@razcarsey6635]

C'mon, cut the poor guy some slack. Have you ever invented, in real time, a fictional origin-story about a 100 millisecond sound you didn't create 25 years ago? Didn't think so. Shame on you.

[@h-voltage]

We did all sorts of crazy things to it like... like.. like.. EQ and aaaand.. COMPRESSION

[@kozhedub]

@@h-voltage It literally sounds like a version of me from 10 years ago trying to make my video-editing seem more impressive than it was

[@dogski2822]

He describes the making of a sound effect that’s used 3 times like it was his PhD dissertation.

[@redanwrong]

From the Tommy Tallarico wiki "Misleading claims In November 2022, British KZbinr 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][46][47] "