Hi Guys! Q: Whos the guy that pops from the side shouting: YEEPEE!?
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posted08/17/2008 11:30 PM (UTC)by
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galdl20
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07/25/2008 10:21 AM (UTC)
Hi, I was googling for an expert's old MK games forum and i think i hit the right spot.
The thing is I just ran into a nostalgic yet embarrassing situation. I was taking a shower when my girlfriend walked in the bathroom and I picked out, driven by a sudden urge of shouting YEEEPEE, just like the guy who did it on one of the games.. (was it MK1?).

Is anybody familier with this guy's wired pick-n-shout habbit? is it somekind of programmers' joke? 2 points to the one who gets this right... :> wow
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07/25/2008 09:13 PM (UTC)
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galdl20 Wrote:
Hi, I was googling for an expert's old MK games forum and i think i hit the right spot.
The thing is I just ran into a nostalgic yet embarrassing situation. I was taking a shower when my girlfriend walked in the bathroom and I picked out, driven by a sudden urge of shouting YEEEPEE, just like the guy who did it on one of the games.. (was it MK1?).

Is anybody familier with this guy's wired pick-n-shout habbit? is it somekind of programmers' joke? 2 points to the one who gets this right... :> wow


Um... Dan Forden pops out and says TOASTY.... in MK4 he adds "3D" and in MK3 he says FROSTY if you freeze some one at the "danger health"


But YEEPEE wtf confused is that?
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galdl20
07/26/2008 04:00 PM (UTC)
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so whos Dan Forde? and why does he shout frosty?
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07/27/2008 05:11 AM (UTC)
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Dan Forden is a sound programmer and music composer who specializes in making music for video games. If I understand correctly, when he and the Midway team would play the games before they were released, they'd periodically shout out random taunts with funny voices; for whatever reason, Dan's "Toasty" was chosen as a long-running gag for when a player landed an uppercut. It stuck for a long time too.
I'm not 100% sure about this, as I only heard the story years ago, and my memory's really fuzzy right now, so I'll leave this open so that someone else can clarify/confirm what I wrote.
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reptile88
08/05/2008 12:27 AM (UTC)
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Yep,That's it....digging on the internet sometimes helps,haha.

" According to ''MK'' co-creator [[John Tobias]] in a 1993 interview with ''[[GamePro]]'' magazine, the famous "Toasty!" was originally "You're Toast!", which later evolved into "Toasted!", and then "Toasty!", The former two were simply taunts used by the programmers during game-playing sessions and were not actually used in the games.

taken from HERE

I would like to have the magazine scantongue,but i think it solves the case.
Yep I remember seeing that on Midway Arcade Treasures 2 where they had some kind of video talking about MK3 and they indeed mentioned. How it was Your Toast to Toasted to Toasty! And if you really wanna get old school here's a name to look for fergus mcgovern!!! Or aka FERGALITY!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpVvu4vQj8o and occasionally you'll see the same head pop up in the pit which is where they got the idea for Dan Forden's head to pop up http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=To72XE4oWrM
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