Are there any celebrties that appeared in video games BEFORE they were famous?

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Are there any celebrties that appeared in video games BEFORE they were famous?

Or at least semi-famous.

I'm thinking there has to be ONE well known or semi well known person that was in a video game before they got more famous.

I'm thinking like... the guy who was Johnny Cage in Mortal Kombat, or any one of the terrible digital models in Pit Fighter, or someone from Mad Dog McCree.

Something like that.

I could probably Google it... but I am hoping someone in KLOV-land has some interesting facts or stories or something to share.

Also I am bored.
 
Apart from Tina Fey in MM, there's the other usual factoids:

Christian Bale is one of the kids in the Pac-Man cereal commercial:


Jack Black did a Pitfall commercial as a kid:


Phil Hartman in 2600 Ice Hockey:


I think these are all the usual things flung around. I wanna see new stuff.

(Yay. Learned to embed youtube in KLOV posts... Yay.)
 
the 3 stooges were in 3 stooges.

beavis and butthead were in beavis and butthead
 
the 3 stooges were in 3 stooges.

beavis and butthead were in beavis and butthead

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Or at least semi-famous.

I'm thinking there has to be ONE well known or semi well known person that was in a video game before they got more famous.

or any one of the terrible digital models in Pit Fighter, or someone from Mad Dog McCree.

I always thought that one of the fighters in Pit Fighter was Jean Claude Van Damn. I remember reading something about it at the time....denying that the characters were modeled after anyone specific. Anyone recall hearing that?
 
I always thought that one of the fighters in Pit Fighter was Jean Claude Van Damn. I remember reading something about it at the time....denying that the characters were modeled after anyone specific. Anyone recall hearing that?

I'm digging around Pit Fighter now and he's not in the game credits... and none of the characters really look like him.

I did discover, that the digitized voice of Heavy Metal, the punk looking fighter in Pit Fighter, was voiced by Kim Rhodes. She's done soap opera work, Disney shows... ALSO my sister in law is friends with her!

My sister in law was the wig master for the Oregon Shakespeare festival and she's been the hair person for several movies (including a Bruce Campbell movie) that have filmed around here. I can't remember how she met Kim though...
 
this is a cool thread I have to admit. fairly interested so far (aside from my worthless posts) :)
 
The following planets:

Earth
Neptune
Uranus
Saturn
Jupiter
Mars

...appeared in Gyruss. Before they were famous.
 
I always thought that one of the fighters in Pit Fighter was Jean Claude Van Damn. I remember reading something about it at the time....denying that the characters were modeled after anyone specific. Anyone recall hearing that?

You're thinking Mortal Kombat. It started off as a video game featuring Jean Claude Van Damm. Check out Johnny Cage.
 
Remember when Phil Hartman was killed by that crazy bitch ....that sucked :-(
 
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