In a sad revelation recently, voice actor and American performer Brendan O’Brien (also known as the original voice of Crash Bandicoot) has passed away at the age of 60.
He passed on this information Antonblast game developer Tony Grayson on social media. AND the eulogy is also published onlinereferring to O’Brien’s time voicing Crash Bandicoot:
“One of his proudest moments was coming up with the original voices for the “Crash Bandicoot” video games during Naughty Dog’s years from 1996 to 2004. He encouraged nostalgic Crash fans in their own endeavors and loved signing their memorabilia. Like music, designing voices characters for animation, radio and video games were natural to him.”
As Destructoid pointed out, O’Brien helped shape Crash’s personality and character in the earlier years with all kinds of wonderful and wacky sounds (including the famous one-liner “Woah”). His efforts helped transform Naughty Dog’s bandicoot into a household name like few other video game mascots.
On behalf of the team and community here at Nintendo Life, our thoughts go out to Brendan’s family, friends and colleagues.
