| “ | Howdy guys, it's NintendoCapriSun here! | ” |
―NintendoCapriSun | ||
Timothy Lloyd "Tim" Bishop (born: April 5, 1976), better known by his online alias NintendoCapriSun or NCS for short, is an American YouTuber, Let's Player and Twitch Streamer who has made content online since 2007, and is well known for his friendliness and his scatological humor. Tim made comprehensive walkthrough Let's Plays on various video games, including titles from the Mario, The Legend of Zelda, Pokémon, Banjo-Kazooie, Mega Man, Metroid, Castlevania, Final Fantasy, Plants vs. Zombies and Ace Attorney video game franchises. As of 2016, he streams regularly on Twitch, usually on Tuesdays and Fridays. Tim has over 400 thousand subscribers and 369 million views as of 2024.
Tim has been making Let's Plays on his main channel since 2007, and became a YouTube Partner in 2010. He is known for his unique style of commentary that includes a variety of humor, including strange remarks, burps, farts. Having produced Let's Plays primarily for Nintendo games, Tim has made Let's Plays of games from The Legend of Zelda series and the Mario franchise. He has also done multiple non-Nintendo Let's Plays, such as Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, Banjo-Kazooie, Shadow of the Colossus, Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch, and Plants vs. Zombies. In addition, Tim has two separate YouTube channels: BreakingNCS, which is dedicated to video blogs and other miscellaneous content; and JealousGuy, which predates NintendoCapriSun and focuses more on rants and short film stuff. He has 28 years of experience recording his personal video logs. Tim has 32.3K followers on Twitch. He streams when he can and/or feel like it; if he does, it's usually 8pm EST on Tuesday, and 9p EST on Friday.
Alongside his own Let's Plays, Tim is also a founding member of The Runaway Guys collaborative Let's Play YouTube channel, along with Claire Wheeler (Proton Jon) and Emile Rosales (Chuggaaconroy), who have done 46 Collab Let's Plays and reached 487 thousand subscribers and 397 total video views in 2023. In addition to their videos, The Runaway Guys have also created the "Thrown Controllers" event, a live game show which focuses on video game trivia and challenges. The group has also done gaming live-streams for charity, hosting The Runaway Guys Colosseum stream for the non-profit organization Direct Relief. Tim is the quietest and nicest of the three which usually means Emile and Claire will beat him, though he's not by any means bad at games. Tim and Emile are best friends, and have been housemates in Georgia since 2021.
Early life[]
Timothy Bishop was born on April 5th 1976 as a son of two, and has a sister named Mary. He graduated from Commerce High School in 1994, and had no college education. He previously had various jobs before that included working at Walmart and Pick 'n Save but currently is self employed at YouTube. He worked at an art shop with his sister and some others, but eventually the shop had to close down.
Career[]
YouTube[]
Tim came up with the name NintendoCapriSun when he made a list of nicknames on a piece of notebook paper for himself back in eighth grade. On the list was 2 columns of several names, mostly named with Nintendo, but since then he has lost the list, and the only 2 names he can remember are "Fire-breathing Nintendo 1-up " and of course, "NintendoCapriSun". Others included whatever he saw such as NintendoCar, NintendoFlower, NintendoCupofWater. Tim always thought NintendoCapriSun was the worst name on the list because of how obvious it was that he was looking around the room for a name, but eventually he decided to use it for his YouTube channel. He first made the step to Let's Playing as JealousGuy when he was experimenting with emulators in mid-2007. Then he saw several people do Let's Plays, such as Proton Jon and UltraJayMan, so he had the idea. He had to come up with a name, NintendoCaprisun. On December 27, 2007 he started with Super Mario Bros. 3, and the rest was history. Having produced Let's Plays primarily for Nintendo games (hence his name), NintendoCapriSun's resume includes many games from The Legend of Zelda series, the Banjo-Kazooie franchise, even games from the Super Mario franchise and other acolytes of Nintendo. He constantly claims that his favorite game is Secret of Mana, although he also claimed in a VLog that Final Fantasy X was at that time his favorite. On August 11, 2010, NintendoCapriSun started Final Fantasy X, his first Let's Play of a non-Nintendo console game since Let's Play Dungeons Of Daggorath in July 2008. He has since done multiple non-Nintendo Let's Plays, such as Shadow of the Colossus, Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch, and Plants vs. Zombies.
When Let's Playing a game, Tim shares many stories from his childhood and past events. He has shared stories about his jobs, friends, family, and hardships. One of these stories include the making of the well-known "Waterhands", a simple idea made by his sister and himself for the Tribeca Film Festival.
Other Channels[]
Tim operates a few other YouTube channels in addition to NintendoCapriSun;
- JealousGuy - This channel predates NintendoCapriSun and was used primarily as a "vlogging" channel for Tim's various rants, experiments and LOST discussions. Tim stopped updating this channel as he was afraid another "strike" could lead to the suspension of his hit channel, NintendoCapriSun.
- BreakingNCS - Tim created this new vlogging channel on June 30, 2010 to start where JealousGuy left off. He frequently posts videos showing all mail and packages from fans he has received for the month. He also posts videos of his trips to various game conventions including PAX and MAG fest. Many other LPers are also shown in specific videos. He has also featured a multi-video special recapping his life: 40 Years in ??? Minutes.
Twitch[]
Tim has 32.3K followers on Twitch. He streams when he can and/or feel like it. If he does, it's usually 8pm EST on Tuesday, and 9p EST on Friday. Games Tim has streamed include Paper Mario: The Thousand Year-Door, Super Mario Sunshine and EarthBound. Unlike Proton Jon and MasaeAnela, Tim does not have his own VOD channel, but does have a fanmade one that uploads his Twitch streams with permission.
The Runaway Guys[]
Tim is a founding member of TheRunawayGuys, a collab channel with Claire Wheeler (Proton Jon) and Emile Rosales (Chuggaaconroy). Emile is in charge of maintaining the channel, although Claire made posts and comments for the channel as well. For the first two years, updates usually only occurred every Saturday, but this was changed to Saturday, Tuesday, and Thursday following an announcement on February 8, 2013. Videos for Mario Party games (starting with the third) and Fortune Street were also posted daily (each board beginning on Saturday and continuing every day until its end).
Their first Let's Play premiered on February 5, 2011. The three of them were the only ones participating, but many of their later videos featured additional players. After the creation of the channel in 2011, 46 main collab LPs were produced, along with five side collab LPs and six tournament LPs. Along with their official long-running LPs, they did one-shot filler LPs (labeled "The Runaway Gaiden"), tournaments featuring multitudes of guest players, and side collab projects that they gradually update and use as filler between regular projects.
On occasion at various conventions, the Runaway Guys had their own panel, called Thrown Controllers, a live game show which focused on video game trivia and challenges. The event was broadcast on numerous gaming conventions such as PAX, Magfest and Momocon. In its debut at PAX East 2012, two teams took turns answering questions and playing video game challenges, either against each other, solo, or against members of the audience. At PAX Prime 2012, they retooled the game into a single-person quiz show with challenges, similar to the initial concept except for one person at a time, and this is how it has been done since. Many prizes were awarded at these panels, ranging from character pins from Fangamer to (as a grand prize) an actual video game console, such as a Nintendo 3DS, Wii U, or Nintendo Switch.
In May of 2018, The Runaway Guys Colosseum was live streamed as a weekend long event to raise money for Direct Relief. This was followed up in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023. All of them once again in benefit of Direct Relief. With the combined efforts of the community, event staff, and the performers, a total over $1,000,000 was raised by 2023.
Personal life[]
Tim mentions his family very often in his videos while telling stories or sometimes v-logging. He most often talks about his parents and his sister Mary. His parents and all of his grandparents have passed away. Tim's sister Mary is probably the most often mentioned in stories. She created the Waterhands with Tim in 1993 and set up their Art Shop in 2013. Tim quit the bakery he used to work at because he found out he could make even more on YouTube than he did at that job. Plus he was super unhappy there just because of how angry everyone was all the time. In 2024 he revealed that he was making about $1300 a month at the bakery.
He has 28 years of experience recording his personal video logs. His other hobbies include reading, photography, talking about LOST, karaoke, and drinking Coca Cola. Tim enjoys a wide variety of musical artists including Rush, Green Day, Dave Mathews Band, and Red Hot Chili Peppers. He is also quite an accomplished composer. He has several original compositions that are available to listen to on YouTube through Mario Paint Composer as well as a number of covers also done through Mario Paint Composer.
Tim has diagnosed himself with asperger syndrome as noted from a comment reply by him on a Secret of Mana let's play video. He has also been smoke-free for ten years. He stopped smoking on April 7, 2009. Between 2011 and 2013, Tim lost close to 100lbs.
In July 2010, Tim controversially had his YouTube account suspended under false copyright claims, though it was restored a month later in August. He was among several YouTubers who had their accounts briefly suspended as a result of false copyright violation claims, including Tim's friend and frequent collaborator Emile Rosales (Chuggaaconroy), and rant YouTuber TheArchfiend. The person or group of people went around YouTube reporting videos for false copyright violations under false names (like Timothy Bishop, the real name of NintendoCapriSun), sometimes affiliated themselves with large companies like Nintendo. For instance, one of Emile’s videos was taken down by a user who claimed to own the copyrights to the Pokemon franchise, while another was taken down by a user who claimed ownership over Emile’s voice. By August 2010, NintendoCapriSun, Chuggaaconroy and TheArchfield all had their accounts restored.
In his 2022 Mario Kart vlogs, Tim states that he doesn't look back at his videos and streams from 2021 fondly. Physical and mental health issues led to him feeling sick, drained, and generally out of it, and his commentary and gameplay suffered heavily for it as a result.
Since 2021, Tim has been housemates with Emile in Georgia. Whenever he visited Emile in the past, he typically stayed in a messy spare room where Emile keeps old consoles and other classic stuff. Tim visited Emile for a couple weeks in 2021, because he had just found out that Kirby (his cat) had kidney failure and he thought the cat only had a few weeks left, and he wanted to be there for Emile for that. In the end, Kirby lived almost a whole another year. At the time he moved into Emile's house, Tim was going through some health problems, and when Emile saw what a state Tim was in, he let him live in his house and urged Tim to a clinic and he took him to the gym, which led to Tim's health greatly improving. As of 2024, Tim is able to pay half of the rent and bills with Emile, which comes out to about the same as what he was paying for rent and bills by himself in Ohio, and has gotten on meds for the hypothyroid stuff. Tim also revealed that if he had to get a job again, he would be perfectly able to now.
On March 31st, 2024, amid the controversy surrounding misconduct allegations against Emile that he later cleared up, Tim revealed in an interview that the allegations by AntDude and MissFushiGaming of Emile sending off-putting texts to them had all been a complete misunderstanding on their part, and that Emile did not make them uncomfortable in that situation.[1] Tim initially said that Ant and Fushi had viewed Emile's donation to Fushi as him "simping" for her, but later clarified that both she and Ant were grateful for Emile's donation. Despite Tim asking people to not harass Ant and Fushi with messages about this, they still blocked him anyway. As Tim already revealed Emile's side of the story, Emile did not mention Ant or Fushi in his response to the other allegations by Lady Emily, MasaeAnela and Lawly. It was later reported that, at an undetermined time after Tim's interview, Ant admitted his allegation against Emile had been a misunderstanding. During the controversy, Tim looked out for Emile everyday, made sure he was safe from hurting himself, and overall was a good friend. Tim also handled so many decisions for him when Emile was not well enough to make them for himself, such as cooking for him every day when Emile wasn’t allowed near the knives. Emile thinks he really saved him, and asked for people to please support Tim with all they can.
Controversy[]
YouTube suspension[]
In July 2010, Tim and Emile were suspended from their accounts due to a series of false copyright claims filed by an individual or group using fake names.[2] The claims targeted videos from Emile's Pokémon Crystal and Super Mario Sunshine Let's Plays.[3][4][5] After submitting counter-claims, Emile's account was unbanned on July 31st, and Tim's followed on August 3rd.[6][7][8][9] Following his reinstatement, Emile's videos were temporarily removed again due to a technical error on YouTube's part, but they were restored the next day.[10][11][12][13][10][14][15]
Games that Tim has Let's Played[]
The Legend of Zelda[]
- The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Nintendo GameCube version)
- And again in Hero Mode on the HD Remastered Version (livestream)
- The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time**And again with three hearts.
- The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
- Zelda II: The Adventure of Link
- And again, with three hearts.
- The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
- The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
- As well as a 100% race with JB of Now Loading, Bear0fLove, and deathe88
- The Legend of Zelda: Second Quest (swordless)
- And again, using only three hearts.
- The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
- The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
- The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds
- The Legend of Zelda: Oracle Games
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
- The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Randomizer Crapsanity
- The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker Randomizer
- The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap (Blind from Mt. Crenel onwards)
Mega Man[]
- Mega Man X
- Mega Man X2
- Mega Man X3
- Mega Man
- Mega Man 2
- Mega Man 3
- Mega Man 4
- Mega Man 5
- Mega Man 6
- Mega Man 7
- Mega Man 9
- Mega Man 10
Mario[]
- Super Mario Sunshine
- Super Mario World (with Empolo18)
- Super Mario Bros. 3 (with Empolo18)
- And a solo replay while his capture card was getting fixed.
- Super Mario Kart
- Super Mario Galaxy 2
- Super Mario RPG
- Super Mario 64
- Super Mario Bros. 2
- New Super Mario Bros. Wii (co-op with Chibinekodemyx)
- Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
- New Super Luigi U (co-op with Empolo18)
- Super Mario Maker
- Super Mario Maker 2
- Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins
- Paper Mario 64
- Super Mario 35
- Super Mario RPG Randomizer
- Super Mario Odyssey (Ongoing)
Yoshi[]
- Yoshi's Story
- Yoshi's Island
- Yoshi's Woolly World
- Yoshi's Crafted World
Metroid[]
- Metroid Prime
- Super Metroid
- Metroid
- Metroid Prime 2: Echoes
- Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
- Super Metroid Rotation (a Game Mod of Super Metroid)
- Metroid Fusion
- Metroid: Zero Mission
- Metroid Dread (Ongoing)
Banjo-Kazooie[]
- Banjo-Kazooie
- Banjo-Tooie
Final Fantasy[]
- Final Fantasy IV
- Final Fantasy V (Four Job Fiesta)
- Final Fantasy VI (Twice)
- Final Fantasy VIII (livestream)
- Final Fantasy IX (livestream)
- Final Fantasy X
- Final Fantasy Mystic Quest
Castlevania[]
- Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse
- Super Castlevania IV
- Castlevania
- Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow
- Castlevania: The Adventure (Blind)
Mother[]
- EarthBound (1994)
- Mother 3
Contra[]
- Contra III: The Alien Wars
- Contra
- Super C
- Operation C (Blind)
Donkey Kong Country[]
- Donkey Kong Country
- Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest
- Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! (Blind)
- Donkey Kong 64
Pokémon[]
- Pokémon Sapphire (Blind)
- Pokémon Omega Ruby (Left Hanging due to NCS losing his copy when he moved houses in 2015)
Ace Attorney (blind)[]
- Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney cases 4 and 5
- Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Justice For All
- Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Trials and Tribulations
- Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney
- Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth
- Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies
- Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Spirit of Justice
- The Great Ace Attorney 2 (Ongoing)
Dragon Quest[]
- Dragon Warrior
- Dragon Quest Builders
- Dragon Quest XI (Main Story)
Danganronpa[]
- Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc (Blind, Livestream)
- Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair (Blind, Livestream)
- Danganronpa 1.5: Ultra Despair Girls (Blind, Livestream)
- Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony (Blind, Livestream)
Other / Unsorted[]
- Battletoads (Four-way race with himself, Proton Jon, SuperJeenius, and Pcull44444)
- And again, this time between himself, Gr33n47, Ninosho and Erin Williams
- Super Ghouls N' Ghosts
- Chrono Trigger
- Dungeons of Daggorath
- Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!
- Secret of Mana and its remake
- Legend of Mana
- Secret of Evermore
- Conker's Bad Fur Day (Blind)
- Plants vs. Zombies
- With a new no-sunflower playthrough in June 2019.
- Another playthrough with the game running at double speed in November 2022.
- Shadow of the Colossus
- Mario Party 2 (dubbed a "LMAO" [Let's Mess Around On], as it was more for fun)
- Smartball
- Willow
- Plants vs. Zombies 2: It's About Time
- Cloudberry Kingdom
- The Stanley Parable
- Ni no Kuni
- Super Star Wars**Super Empire Strikes Back (Blind)
- Life Force
- To the Moon
- A Bird Story
- Secrets of Grindea
- Castle in the Darkness
- Yo! Noid
- Adventures of Pip
- Kid Icarus
- Bloons Monkey City (a single video)
- Totally Rad
- Shantae: Half-Genie Hero
- Firewatch
- The Zero Escape Trilogy: (Blind, Livestream)
- Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors
- Virtue's Last Reward
- Zero Time Dilemma
- Stardew Valley
- Fire Emblem: Awakening (Blind, Livestream)
- Persona 5 (Blind, Livestream)
- Tetris 99
- Xenoblade Chronicles 1 (Blind, Livestream)
- Blaster Master (Blind)
- Blaster Master Zero (Blind)
- Ōkami (Blind, Livestream)
- Eliza
- Steins;Gate (Blind, Livestream)
- Fortune Street
- Rakuen (Blind)
- Miitopia
- Super Mario Party
- Tunic (Blind)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1989)
- Batman (Sunsoft) (NES)
- Bug Fables
- Idle Dice
- Lufia 2 Rise Of The Sinistrals (Blind)
Trivia[]
- Tim's Let's Plays inspired MasaeAnela and SuperMCGamer.
- Tim is a huge fan of the Star Wars franchise.
- Tim's favorite video game of all time is Secret of Mana.
- Prior to starting Let's Plays, he had a Vlog channel called JealousGuy. He has not uploaded a video on that channel since June 24, 2010, shortly before starting his current Vlog channel BreakingNCS.
- Tim created a Dungeons and Dragons character in 2016 named "Jango Ballhair".
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-BSu222t8o&t=3s
- ↑ https://zeldauniverse.net/2010/07/19/chuggaaconroy-others-suspended-from-youtube-by-false-copyright-claims/
- ↑ https://zeldauniverse.net/2010/07/19/chuggaaconroy-others-suspended-from-youtube-by-false-copyright-claims/
- ↑ https://www.facebook.com/chuggaaconroy/posts/144726612210509
- ↑ https://www.facebook.com/chuggaaconroy/posts/141110935915868
- ↑ https://www.facebook.com/chuggaaconroy/posts/pfbid02cFRY5mKQFZyGUgJvcabrK13tmSbkHoGuC99Jt3C8sBaMo9DEdiY3mQYagym7RLh6l
- ↑ https://www.facebook.com/chuggaaconroy/posts/pfbid02BLMZNq2SE9SGmvdpmCiF6m443yCC2JNaF7h4kvC7QwZC4pnmngH7pkBqHyf56Aq5l
- ↑ https://www.facebook.com/chuggaaconroy/posts/pfbid0AMgBAsDZqRgzqS1irnYGYJNFcDq4eMBSAAzRfEatuW8NK2PcEs2YmuDvawkHpxbbl
- ↑ https://www.facebook.com/chuggaaconroy/posts/pfbid036cg2bim4JTwej8X9EJVZR1Xb6BUPNrbJiMUFmjioAdgM1iGxnDPgRHXNLHYwZHz1l
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 https://www.facebook.com/chuggaaconroy/posts/pfbid026pUCr4oyqKchASCJyX8L6kvD8Wu9ymtQjmDLQ27Y5o6puikTUUHX1P4m54NTJHiKl
- ↑ https://www.facebook.com/chuggaaconroy/posts/pfbid026mQr8PgHqjFTMDyS1pXiuGrDoCwcbxZc2h1VG7wRA3p9KLBLrCRpMFCdwSt3zAQ7l
- ↑ https://www.facebook.com/chuggaaconroy/posts/pfbid021WPTxLhkuUAs7S4zrT131smqy6xuZoVDEPhQQkqe4zA5FK1ejgWZxrieYn3gwr5Dl
- ↑ https://www.facebook.com/chuggaaconroy/posts/pfbid02MT99BmDWMZJpA5cntUCvMyNpwtHbHfRtatyCHTCfxwSGPTBUFWuQ4ckRk9bVzTPRl
- ↑ https://www.facebook.com/chuggaaconroy/posts/pfbid0LN8Nn3di7rPx214MvYqZxNwaHqkQDazuVJX9n48Yt6TznnRc5f1Gkx6aBWxvB9JCl
- ↑ https://www.facebook.com/chuggaaconroy/posts/pfbid0ALuqVSw9LLX7iat7ASrPXsKWeR8KzWARyB9ccLwu779HyGvCfqVCjqkUZ41ud44Sl