Talk:Tommy Tallarico

Trivia

• /vfd - archived discussion from Wikipedia:Votes for deletion

What's the deal with the Trivia section? Since when do encyclopedia articles have Trivia? Salvag 15:57, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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It's not an encyclopedia, it's a WIKIpedia.

"Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia" --Sketchee 01:50, July 13, 2005 (UTC)

• sigh* Trivia doesnt have to be about asking questions and getting answers. Trivia is also about random facts about someone or something. Sheesh.

WP:Trivia It isn't really Wikipedia's policy to be a repository for pointless factoids but they're not entirely verboten. Best to be avoided on non-trivial subjects like a CEO. 2601:540:8200:1895:1F11:1CEA:17AE:94CE (talk) 10:02, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

Why CleanUp

There is just to many personal stuff in here. This article needs a good cleanup --JAranda | yeah 15:11, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

The liberty has been taken to throw a mop at the article; more may be needed. 2601:540:8200:1895:1F11:1CEA:17AE:94CE (talk) 10:02, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

WikiProject class rating

This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as stub, and the rating on other projects was brought up to Stub class. BetacommandBot 16:40, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

Video Game Awards

For the 2007 VGA's on the Spike channel, Tommy played electric guitar with the orchestra..should this be included? I did not want to do it myself seeing as I am very new and don't know the name of the orchestra or anything like that. AgentHappyDay (talk) 19:28, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

Every VGA show I've seen has had him play guitar with the VGA orchestra, I don't believe it's noteworthy.213.94.204.41 (talk) 15:23, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

Guinness World Record

he got a record for involvement in the most games. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.25.183.75 (talk) 16:15, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

The problem with caring about a Guinness World Record is that it's an ego surfing operation for charlatans. You can basically buy a record. Pure WP:Peacock. 2601:540:8200:1895:1F11:1CEA:17AE:94CE (talk) 10:02, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

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Age needs to be changed

Hey guys. Can someone please change the age on this page? Tommy is 53 now.

Cheers. OneUniqueWikiUser (talk) 16:43, 19 February 2021 (UTC)

WP:SELFPROMOTE?

As noted by one commentor here [1], the sole contribution of User:Ashesofthought as viewed here [2] is the creation of this article. It is possible this user is connected to the subject of the article. Sizeofint (talk) 12:59, 30 June 2021 (UTC)

WP: PROTECT?

Given the possibility of Wikipedia:Self-promotion and the matters starting to surround the character of the article, it may be worthwhile to consider invoking perhaps a Wikipedia:BLUELOCK in order to ensure that only trustworthy editors unbiased of anything regarding this or the Intellivision Amico; there has been shill behavior and trolling surrounding, in many articles offsite. 2601:540:8200:92A:BEB4:D82A:EC1C:EEE0 (talk) 14:28, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

Awards, notable?

Are the awards listed on this page noteworthy? They seem self-aggrandizing, especially since many are self-nominated or self-awarded. Consider this a soft nomination for deleting that section of the article. 2601:540:8200:1895:1F11:1CEA:17AE:94CE (talk) 06:09, 28 November 2021 (UTC)

Dubious Claims

Tommy has a habit of making what could be considered spurious claims. This section aims to check those claims and refute the more outlandish ones.

In example, he claims here on AtariAge to have had some hand in launching Guitar Hero. This is an unrelated example claim that simply places his ability to tell the truth into question; a disestablishment of character.

On his first day, Tallarico caught the eye of an employee of the new video game company, Virgin Mastertronic, because he was wearing a TurboGrafx T-shirt.

Unless someone can produce a photo of Tommy working for Virgin-Mastertronic wearing this shirt, this seems a nebulous claim; one which doesn't serve any practical purpose either.

Tallarico advocated for more space on cartridges being devoted to audio, and became an early pioneer in bringing real sampled sounds of instruments into video games.

This claim is dramatically overstated. It is ignorant of an entire generation of computing (such as the Amiga), the history of digital sound in games in general, and people such as Karsten Obarski or Rob Hubbard..

Tallarico was the first composer to commercially release album compilations of video game music around the world.

This is a claim regarding semantics. There have been games which came with their music on a separate cassette, and albums released on vinyl (and other formats) well before Mr. Tallirico claims. It comes down to a question of what counts as a global release.

Point is, people have been producing albums of video game music for commercial releases long before Tallarico was even in the business of making music.

2601:540:8200:1895:1F11:1CEA:17AE:94CE (talk) 22:07, 14 December 2021 (UTC)

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