Hello. I did the voices for StarFox 64

[Sol-Ratcht Saporro]

Hi Ashton! How's Demi?

[Samantha Weltzin]

*Senses ridicule.*

But yes. We -are- skeptical. It's the Internet, and people lie all the time about any number of things, from gender to age to ethnicity to past experiences.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. I'd say a link to a sound file saying, "Hello, StarFox Online! This is Mike West and you guys are a bunch of skeptics" in Fox's voice may suffice.

Granted, that -could- just be a really good impression if it's supplied, but honestly at this point I'm inclined to believe it given the Facebook statement.

If you're not who you say you are, this is one of the most elaborate trolling attempts I've ever seen. :D

["User"]

*Senses ridicule.*

But yes. We -are- skeptical. It's the Internet, and people lie all the time about any number of things, from gender to age to ethnicity to past experiences.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. I'd say a link to a sound file saying, "Hello, StarFox Online! This is Mike West and you guys are a bunch of skeptics" in Fox's voice may suffice.

Granted, that -could- just be a really good impression if it's supplied, but honestly at this point I'm inclined to believe it given the Facebook statement.

If you're not who you say you are, this is one of the most elaborate trolling attempts I've ever seen.

There are a few reasons why I would see this as a hoax.  First off is the name he registered under - "voice".  Sounds a bit more mysterious and why he wouldn't use something simpler like Mike West is beyond me.  Second is his suggestion to friend him on facebook - yet a simple facebook search using the "Mike West Voice Work Seattle" phrase that he suggested yield no account results and only 3 links to outside sites about or concerning Mike West.  Thirdly the information he provided could easily be located elsewhere...like on Mike West's website for example.  Fourthly, if I were an admin or mod I'd track the IP and email address to see if it is really coming from Seattle or if it's a proxy.  There have been other accounts on SFO that have been based on other famous video game personalities that have been created in a relatively short time span to suspect it might be the same person.

Of course I sure hope it really is Mike West, but I reserve my own judgement until I get some answers to my questions :P

[Samantha Weltzin]

You're better at this than I am, User. :D

[Guest Mr. Mario]

I don't even think I saw Mike West's name in some of the credits for Microsofts game.

[Guest Julius Quasar]

You're Mike West...THE Mike West...."shut up"! (meaning in the expression of disbelief "shut up", not the mean "shut up")

Are you messin' with us!? 

I'm sorry, dude, but I find it hard to believe.  If you are the real deal, and can prove it beyond the shadow of a doubt I'll eat my words...

[voice]

http://www.facebook.com/MikeWestVoiceWork

This is me. I didn't mean to cause problems here.

MikeWestVoiceWork.com

http://voice123.com/MikeWestVoiceWork

You can email me at mike-west@comcast.net

I am a 52 year old father of two. My daughter Erika works at Barsuk Records. My son, Michael Lerner, (real last name) is a musician. He is on Merge Records. His project is Telekinesis. His music has been on a lot of TV shows, commercials and films. You can find him on Twitter, and me as well. I am sorry I caused such an uproar. You will see on my voice work profile pages that I list Nintendo as one of my many clients.

Funny thing is, I never play the games I voice. My kids used to play it and they didn't know it was me until I told them a few years after.

[Samantha Weltzin]

http://www.facebook.com/MikeWestVoiceWork

This is me. I didn't mean to cause problems here.

I am sorry I caused such an uproar.

Don't worry. This was -far- from an uproar. It's just a few Internet types taking things a bit far when they feel certain that someone's pulling our legs. Things can get a lot worse than they did here. :P

[Mr. Foxer]

Well pleasure to er, meet you .

["User"]

http://www.facebook.com/MikeWestVoiceWork

This is me. I didn't mean to cause problems here.

MikeWestVoiceWork.com

http://voice123.com/MikeWestVoiceWork

You can email me at mike-west@comcast.net

I am a 52 year old father of two. My daughter Erika works at Barsuk Records. My son, Michael Lerner, (real last name) is a musician. He is on Merge Records. His project is Telekinesis. His music has been on a lot of TV shows, commercials and films. You can find him on Twitter, and me as well. I am sorry I caused such an uproar. You will see on my voice work profile pages that I list Nintendo as one of my many clients.

Funny thing is, I never play the games I voice. My kids used to play it and they didn't know it was me until I told them a few years after.

You didn't cause an uproar at all really, it's just that "tech savy" individuals like myself are eager to see accurate information from the start and can be a bit impatient

Allow me though to apologize to you if I seemed a bit hasty in any potential "accusation" that I have made towards you.  Lots of sites get posers from time to time who just enjoy messing with others and as such I have a bit of a prior negative disposition towards anyone who initially makes claims without supporting proof at first    I just added you as a friend on facebook and welcome to SFO btw :)

[Robert Monroe]

http://www.facebook.com/MikeWestVoiceWork

This is me. I didn't mean to cause problems here.

MikeWestVoiceWork.com

http://voice123.com/MikeWestVoiceWork

You can email me at mike-west@comcast.net

I am a 52 year old father of two. My daughter Erika works at Barsuk Records. My son, Michael Lerner, (real last name) is a musician. He is on Merge Records. His project is Telekinesis. His music has been on a lot of TV shows, commercials and films. You can find him on Twitter, and me as well. I am sorry I caused such an uproar. You will see on my voice work profile pages that I list Nintendo as one of my many clients.

Funny thing is, I never play the games I voice. My kids used to play it and they didn't know it was me until I told them a few years after.

Well, holy shit, we got Mike West on a fanboard.

This kicks ASS!

Also you should totally play the games you voice, Starfox 64 is at least one of the best 5 Nintendo 64 games made :P

[Milkyway64]

Well, holy shit, we got Mike West on a fanboard.

This kicks ASS!

Again, proof that the Starfox fandom > all

Our voice acters say "hi" to us!

[Robert Monroe]

Again, proof that the Starfox fandom > all

Our voice acters say "hi" to us!

I actually agree with you. Fandoms for Mario are scary, fandoms for Zelda are.... all wearing their tinfoil hats too tight, fandoms for Metroid are more wanky than the Krystal fanboys.... the list goes on.

[Guest Julius Quasar]

http://www.facebook.com/MikeWestVoiceWork

This is me. I didn't mean to cause problems here.

MikeWestVoiceWork.com

http://voice123.com/MikeWestVoiceWork

You can email me at mike-west@comcast.net

I am a 52 year old father of two. My daughter Erika works at Barsuk Records. My son, Michael Lerner, (real last name) is a musician. He is on Merge Records. His project is Telekinesis. His music has been on a lot of TV shows, commercials and films. You can find him on Twitter, and me as well. I am sorry I caused such an uproar. You will see on my voice work profile pages that I list Nintendo as one of my many clients.

Funny thing is, I never play the games I voice. My kids used to play it and they didn't know it was me until I told them a few years after.

I'm sorry Mike. 

Don't worry. This was -far- from an uproar. It's just a few Internet types taking things a bit far when they feel certain that someone's pulling our legs. Things can get a lot worse than they did here.

You didn't cause an uproar at all really, it's just that "tech savy" individuals like myself are eager to see accurate information from the start and can be a bit impatient

Allow me though to apologize to you if I seemed a bit hasty in any potential "accusation" that I have made towards you.  Lots of sites get posers from time to time who just enjoy messing with others and as such I have a bit of a prior negative disposition towards anyone who initially makes claims without supporting proof at first    I just added you as a friend on facebook and welcome to SFO btw

^ What TSA~User and Samantha said.

It's a pleasure to meet you, Mike.

I'm not on the Facebook network, so I can't see your profile, but from what you said about yourself and your family, you guys seem awesome...you've all done a lot with your lives than I ever will do with my sorry pathetic wasted life.

"You've come a long way, Fox!"

[evilwaffles]

Well, holy shit, we got Mike West on a fanboard.

This kicks ASS!

Can't put it any better than that. Can't actually believe he's registered here.

It's an honor to meet you.

[Fredryk Phox]

Hahahaha, Mike -Vinnie- West, the Beatles Revolution Worldwide guy..?

They play Breakfast with the Beatles here all the time on my work weekends.

HAH! Oh man, I never put 2 and 2 together for that... holy hell.

This just totally made my day. Now I can say, Mr. West, that you are responsible for two very groovy things I enjoy.

[Sol-Ratcht Saporro]

Now, to actually put in some thought out concerns. Because the last 3 posts did nothing for the relevance of this thread.

Well, if you are not the voice behind Fox McCloud for SF64 you sure talk a good game. You've got enough information to fill out a wiki spot I must say. 

You haven't caused a problem sir, it's just that the wave of skepticism was piling up more and more as more members caught on to your post. I'd say you rode it out just fine. Let me tell you, if you thought this was an uproar, this is just lukewarm compared to some of the other stuff on here. And I do apologize if my joke came out as a bit raw. I like to joke a bit with the new members.

I still have my reserves though. The nail in the coffin of skepticism for me would be if you provided a voice clip mentioning Starfox-Online or something just SF-O exclusive. You don't have to entertain the idea I'm just saying, it will resolve a lot of doubt that many of us might still have. Sorry, I don't do Facebook/Twitter etc.

Speaking of exclusiveness, how come you only joined here instead of Arwing Landing as well? They're one of SF-O's affiliates and the member base over there is larger. (I can't remember if its THE largest though). We have members here who are a part of both AL and SF-O. I'd figure you'd like to see more fans.

That about sums it up for me.

[Sableye]

It's still a little bit hard to believe him,

But I have no proof against him...

So I'll say the opposite of an OBJECTION.

[move]AGREEMENT![/move]

[EazyIN]

It's still a little bit hard to believe him,

But I have no proof against him...

So I'll say the opposite of an OBJECTION.

[move]AGREEMENT![/move]

But the text is green  :trollface:

[fox1235]

A voiceclip would be good.

[CrypticQuery]

OMGOMGOMGMOGZOMG!!!!11!!! It's Mike West!!! (Sadly, I just discovered this thread, ) Wow, having one of the voice actors from the arguably BEST StarFox game so far is BEYOND AWESOME!!!

[Mr. Foxer]

Ever considered the fact that one might lose his voice talent after many years?

[CrypticQuery]

Ever considered the fact that one might lose his voice talent after many years?

pfft, no one cares! IT'S MIKE WEST!!!! (I can see what you mean if you are pertaining to the "voice clip" proof some users were looking for earlier)

[Sol-Ratcht Saporro]

Ever considered the fact that one might lose his voice talent after many years?

True, but Fox's voice didn't seem like a big stretch. It might have been. I also said, he did not have to entertain the idea. But a voice clip would seem like the undisputed proof. I mean wouldn't that be the most logical? Besides, that spring radio drive broadcast was within a year, if I remember correctly so, I believe he still got it.

[DZComposer]

Why didn't I see this thread yesterday?

http://www.facebook.com/MikeWestVoiceWork

This is me. I didn't mean to cause problems here.

MikeWestVoiceWork.com

http://voice123.com/MikeWestVoiceWork

You can email me at mike-west@comcast.net

I am a 52 year old father of two. My daughter Erika works at Barsuk Records. My son, Michael Lerner, (real last name) is a musician. He is on Merge Records. His project is Telekinesis. His music has been on a lot of TV shows, commercials and films. You can find him on Twitter, and me as well. I am sorry I caused such an uproar. You will see on my voice work profile pages that I list Nintendo as one of my many clients.

Funny thing is, I never play the games I voice. My kids used to play it and they didn't know it was me until I told them a few years after.

Don't worry. You're not causing an uproar. There is some skepticism among the members because people sometimes make outrageous claims on forums, however the evidence from your posts and profile leads me to believe you.

Welcome to SFO, it is always an honor to have someone who actually worked on the games in our community.