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Oof! - Tommy Tallarico selling his house

calistan

calistan

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The mirrored ceiling in the dining room... How the hell could he afford all that (tasteless crap) from being a videogame musician? This thread makes a great juxtaposition with this one:
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I think it's time we paid more for our hobby, this feels unsustainable.

Just a reminder that the new Prince of Persia is one of the best games of the year and brought the price DOWN. You guys are clueless and mostly ignored the game.
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AJUMP23

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Tommy has done a lot for video games. I will check it out. If his house is in Cali that is a hard no.
 
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efyu_lemonardo

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Paltheos said:
No, that was Kenji Yamamoto. Tommy's claimed he was involved in interviews but I don't know of a corroborating source.
HBomberguy did a big takedown on the guy linked elsewhere in this topic.
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I did not know that.

Kdad said:
Sure lol
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Was asking sincerely, and apparently I'm wrong. Wasn't trying to imply anything. Looks like I was misinformed, that's all.
 
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panda-zebra

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NovaSe7en said:
First time I saw Tallarico, he was touring this house on that OPM demo disc. Made me feel really nauseous at the time.

Pathological liar, grifter, and narcissist only partially describes this POS. Normally I'm pretty good about separating the art from the artist, but not for him.
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Does the separating art form artist thing apply when most of the art isn't even his? When he just paid others to do the bulk of the catalogue he claims as his own? Internet sleuths have done so much good work separating the art from the con artist and attributing each to their rightful creators.
 
RagnarokIV

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Ahh yes the “Tomb Raider dining room” and “Spider-Man shrine”.

Surprised they haven’t advertised the “Elvis Shrine” he had too for a while
 
Markio128

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Spanish What GIF
 
Mr Reasonable

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calistan said:
The mirrored ceiling in the dining room... How the hell could he afford all that (tasteless crap) from being a videogame musician? This thread makes a great juxtaposition with this one:
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I wondered that too. The Ferrari out the front, the spiderman room, numerous hideous but expensive design decisions.

He's obviously done well for himself.

Edit: apparently with some "help"
 
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DrCheese

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Such a shame he went the way he did - I've been to Video Games Live twice & both times were amazing - Would go again if they were in the UK..

He could have just carried on doing that, but instead he went down the super scamtastic route and is now almost a pariah in gaming circles.
 
SaiyanRaoh

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Is it possible, just possible that he’s just leaving CA just like everyone else is now for…..reasons? Seriously asking.
 
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Toots

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cinnamonandgravy said:
this is like how a poor 9yr old boy thinks rich people live
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You're good !
from wikipedia
"According to the LA Times, his home in San Juan Capistrano "looks as if a 12-year-old with a huge bank account went wild", including a life-size Indiana Jones, several Star Wars characters, and a statue of Merlin.[45] Tallarico has falsely claimed that the house had at one point been featured on MTV Cribs.[46][11][43][47] As of February 2024, he has listed it for sale for $2,999,000.[48]"

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IAmRei

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Thanks to this thread, now i had new knowledge : )) i read the amico things and wondering how is the current state of the console
 
SF Kosmo

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Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.

I met the guy once, he was perfectly nice, but man has he gotten in deep with some of his weird lies and the whole Amico debacle.
 
ReBurn

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calistan said:
The mirrored ceiling in the dining room... How the hell could he afford all that (tasteless crap) from being a videogame musician? This thread makes a great juxtaposition with this one:
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He bought this house when it was worth much less than $3 million. He was probably making decent money when he was doing Video Games Live and doing concerts. Buying that stake in Intellivision has probably wrecked him financially.

Edit: looks like he's still doing concerts as part of VGL.
 
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Krathoon

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I could see that the Amico was a bad idea a mile away. It wasn't beefy enough.

If it had a bunch of retro stuff on it, it would have been good.
 
Kdad

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daninthemix said:
Why / how did his luck run out?
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I would presume he's going to be facing some consequences over Amico in the long term...making false statements regarding the company's principal officers, while raising funds for that company that has yet to deliver a product, isnt a good look.

Hell they are being sued for office equipment and dude tried to bring in 100k over the border in cash (so had to give it up). Dudes a mess.
 
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Hudo

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Not sure who that guy is but...

<Choose according to your position:>
a) Good for him!
b) Lmao, fuck that guy.
 
Krappadizzle

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Krathoon said:
He is one of the luckiest bastards ever and it seems like his luck ran out.
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Dude was putting out some bangers back in the 90's/00's. He's a legend. Kinda like the CliffyB of the music side of the business, great for a while, but thought too highly of himself for a very long time.

Doesn't really discredit his body of work though.

Plus Electronic Playground was bad ass for it's time, good companion show to X-Play.
 
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Yekshemesh

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calistan said:
The mirrored ceiling in the dining room... How the hell could he afford all that (tasteless crap) from being a videogame musician? This thread makes a great juxtaposition with this one:
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nkarafo said:
Did he got this house from the money he was making during his 90's game music composing?
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To be fair, houses in the 90's were highly affordable. Heck you could've bought a starter home/condo with a minimum wage job back than.
San Juan Capistrano in the early 90's was a whole bunch of horse ranches and home steads. He got in early when they started to build modern homes there.
 
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