Tommy Tallarico
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Tommy Tallarico (born February 18, 1968) is an American video game music composer, sound designer, and television producer. Since the 1990s, his company Tommy Tallarico Studios has produced audio for many video games. He co-hosted the television series Electric Playground and Reviews on the Run from 1997 until 2006. In 2002, he created Video Games Live (VGL), a concert series featuring orchestral performances of video game music. In 2018, Tallarico acquired the Intellivision brand and formed a new company called Intellivision Entertainment, which began developing a new video game console named the Intellivision Amico. Tallarico frequently appeared in pitch videos to solicit investors for the Amico project. He has since stepped down from his position as CEO but remains on the company's board as president. As of 2025, the console has not been released. In 2019, it came to Tallarico's attention that a sound effect used in the online game platform Roblox, widely known as the "Roblox oof", had been created by Tommy Tallarico Studios and legally belonged to him. This led to a legal dispute which ended in 2022 with the removal of the sound effect from the game. Later in 2022, a video essay by British YouTuber Hbomberguy documented many dubious claims that Tallarico had made about his own career, including his alleged involvement in creating the "oof" sound.