Grant Kirkhope is known as the composer behind some of the most iconic tracks in games like GoldenEye 007 and Banjo-Kazooie, but there's another type of sound he created that might be burned into your memory: he's the guy who said "oh banana" in Donkey Kong 64. As it turns out, he only did it because he was tired of asking everyone else to do the voice acting.
"I asked people at Rare – does anybody want to voice a character? – and no one wanted to do it," as Kirkhope tells industry newsletter Push to Talk, "and I got so sick of asking, I said, I'll just do it myself, and bollocks to it."
