NintendoCapriSun

NintendoCapriSun
Personal information
Born	April 5th 1976
Relatives	NintendoCapriDad NintendoCapriMom Mary Bishop (sister)
Occupation	Let's Player Twitch Streamer
YouTube information
Also known as	NCS
Channel	NintendoCapriSun
Location	United States
Years active	2007-present
Genre	Gaming
Subscribers	400 thousand
Total views	369 million
Associated acts	Chuggaaconroy Proton Jon Stephen Georg

"I may be on the older side, but I'm still 23 in my mind. I do a little bit of everything, but Retro is kind of my comfort zone."

―NintendoCapriSun

Timothy Lloyd "Tim" Bishop (born April 5, 1976), better known online as NintendoCapriSun or NCS for short, is an American YouTuber, Let's Player and Twitch Streamer who has made online content 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. Before and during his Let's Play career, Tim has filmed hundreds of vlogs and other miscellaneous videos that have been posted on his first YouTube channel JealousGuy, and on it's replacement channel BreakingNCS. He has 28 years of experience recording his personal video logs. Tim has 32.3K followers on Twitch.

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 produced 47 main collab LPs, along with five side collab LPs and six tournament LPs, and have 480 thousand subscribers and 421 total video views as of 2024. In 2012, the group established a video game trivia and challenge show that would go on to become Thrown Controllers, which has grown into a hugely popular show, appearing in the United States and Canada at several conventions. From 2018 to 2024, The Runaway Guys Colosseum was live streamed as a weekend long event to raise money for Direct Relief, which raised over $1,000,000.

Tim and Emile are best friends, and have been housemates in Georgia since 2021. Since 2022, Tim and Emile have done reactions to Nintendo Directs which have been uploaded to Tim's channel. These videos contain their reactions to several game announcements. Tim has taken over MasaeAnela's role of playing through the opposite version to show off major differences.

Early life

A young Tim

Timothy Bishop was born on April 5, 1976 in Ishpeming, a small town in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Soon after he was born, his parents moved to Jacksonville, Florida. His sister Mary was born in 1981. In 1983, his parents got him his first computer, a Mattel Aquarius. Soon after, the Aquarius was sold and replaced with a Radioshack TRS-80 Color Computer. When the Nintendo Entertainment System was new, Tim's father got him one. After his father bought the NES, he told him to not let video games come between him and god. Both of Tim's parents were religious, and this would shape his character for the rest of his life. When he was in elementary school, he met Chris Long, and Brian Tutt. They were often rude and in some cases mildly abusive. In 1988 his family moved to the state of Georgia because his father got promoted to a production manager at a Toyota plant. He has stated that his earliest memory is of himself playing with a toy truck outside in snow and trying to shake out a penny that fell into it.

In 1990, Tim's parents divorced. This was an awkward time for his family, not only because of the divorce, but because it was the beginning of a long stretch of time where Tim and his father would grow apart. Tim's father got custody of him and his sister, Mary. Tim's mother was going through a particularly hard time adjusting to the separation, because she suddenly had to start working. At around this time, she met her second husband, Steve. He is one of the only people to whom Tim has directly called out on their nonsense. Tim's father pushed for him and his sister to get more exercise, and eventually leading to Mary joining her school's basketball team. Utilizing this newfound time home alone, Tim recorded his first audio diary on January 27th, 1992. He was inspired by a scene at the end of Terminator 2: Judgement Day. Recording diaries on audio and video would go on to become a lifelong obsession of his.

Tim graduated from Commerce High School on June 6th, 1994 with straight A's. He considers this to be one of the happiest times in his life because for two years prior to graduation, he was the Georgia State Typing Champion. Also, for his 18th birthday, his dad bought Secret of Mana, which would become Tim's all time favorite video game. After high school, he had a very hard time finding employment. His father made it clear that he thought Tim should go to college, but at the time he was very opposed to the idea due to the possibility of debt. In October of 1994, Tim began to become angry at the fact that he still did not have a job, despite his efforts. Because of his desperation for money, he began to take walks to his high school late at night and take cans back to his house. One night however, his family thought he was missing, and called the police. Over time, Tim did manage to scrape enough money together to be able to afford Final Fantasy VI, which he was looking forward to playing, but he told himself not to play it until he got a job. Tim ended up giving in however, and bought and played the game. To this day he still feels guilty when he hears the game's music. In the summer of 1995, a small conflict arose between Tim and his sister regarding creative direction of fictional characters the two of them created. They are called The Waterhands. Tim was also depressed because it had been roughly a year since he graduated high school and he still could not get even a minimum-wage job.

Steve's father offered Tim a job at a Golden Pantry convenience store in September of 1995. November 4th, 1995 was the first day he ever worked. At the job's orientation, Tim fell in love at first sight with a woman named Crystal Davis. A month later, she had to quit her job because she got into a car accident with a drunk driver. He saw her once after that when she came to collect her final check, but Tim panicked and did not know what to say to her. About a year later, Tim began thinking about her a lot and started to try to find her through phone books, and Golden Pantry employee records. Tim eventually found a phone number with someone on the other end who said they could get a letter to her, and he began writing to her. 1996 and 1997 are considered by Tim to be a very boring time, as he spent a lot of time wishing Crystal Davis would come back into his life. Over time, he started thinking about Davis less in part because of his sister's new group of friends that he liked to spend time with. One of those friends was a girl named Beverly, whom he developed some romantic feelings for. He wrote her a letter offering her a safe place away from the abuse she faced at home. One day at Golden Pantry, a girl came in and claimed to be Tim's girlfriend. He asked a co-worker named Jorem who it was, but because Tim was so shy, and English was not Jorem's first language, he could not manage to get her description.

Two guys named Chris and Brian joined the group that Beverly was in. Tim had lots of fun with them, as he finally had a group of friends who liked the same kinds of music he did, and enjoyed lip-syncing to music on video. They almost started a band which would have been called Flatline, and had one song called Angry. It did not end up going anywhere because Chris did not reciprocate romantic feelings from Beverly. It was with Beverly that Tim smoked his first cigarette. Tim got promoted to Deli Manager at another Golden Pantry at this time. In June of 1998, he got WebTV. This was Tim and his friends' first exposure to the internet. He met a girl from Iowa whom he refers to as Rain while playing an online trivia game on the chat program Talk City. She Claimed to work long hours in a hospital and have cancer. Tim, Chris, and Brian had plans to possibly move in together, but there were too many lifestyle disagreements. The one big problem about life at that time for Tim was that his mother's marriage with Steve was not going well, which resulted in her moving away from him. Tim's father offered to take in him and his sister. Since Tim's father was living in Wisconsin with his sister, Lorrenda, this meant that Tim and Mary would be moving across the country. They left Georgia on November 13, 1998.

In November of 1998, Tim was officially living in Neenah, Wisconsin. He could not message Rain during the move and after he was settled in, he noticed many unread messages from her that were asking him about where he was. Rain was becoming increasingly clingy and would accuse Tim of flirting with other girls in online chatrooms. In February or March of 1999, Tim discovered that Rain was lying to him about having cancer. Tim cut off contact with her afterwards. Shortly after settling into his new home, he got a job at Pick 'n Save. He would quit the job three months later due to another, albeit, smaller move. At the end of 1999, Tim got hired at Pick 'n Save again, and like the last time, only worked there for three months. He quit this time because his father and his second wife, Debora, wanted him to find a better job. In July of 1999, when Tim was visiting his mother, she gave him his first computer. After his second Pick 'n Save job, Tim went to a Temp Agency to find an office job. He soon found employment at Guardian Insurance for three months. Tim did not get a full-time position there because of his hygiene. The Agency found Tim another job doing inventory for deliveries at a store, which only lasted for a month. In Summer of 2000, Mary's boyfriend Josh, who was working at Moto Mart, offered Tim a job there. He took the job, and enjoyed it (partially because he was allowed to smoke on the job). Tim quit Moto Mart in November of 2000 because he did not want to drive from Neenah to Appleton uninsured on snowy roads to get to work.

Debora was starting to become a nuisance to Tim, as she fell off the wagon, and started asking him for money frequently. She went so far as to steal Mary's car to dump bottles so she wouldn't get caught drinking. She also tried forging Tim's signature on a check in an attempt to take money out of his bank account. Debora lied about the attempted forgery, and even denied doing it when confronted face-to-face by Tim and his father. Tim's father and Debora divorced soon after. At some point in 2000, Tim moved in with Mary and Josh, presumably to get away from Debora.

In January of 2001, Tim got hired at Pick 'n Save for his third time. After three months of stocking shelves, he was promoted to working in the bakery. On April 30th, 2001, he worked his first day in the store's bakery. Mary and Josh broke up at one point that year, and Mary found a new boyfriend, Joe, who would go on to become her husband. In January of 2002, Tim, Mary, and Joe moved from Neenah to a house in Appleton. That same month, Tim got all of his teeth removed because they were causing him immense pain, and to not risk a life-threatening infection. He started wearing dentures in April and wears them to the present day. A little while after the dental procedure, he went back to work at Moto Mart because he recently bought his first car, and because working two jobs would pay off the loan he took out for the procedure faster.

In early 2003, Tim was annoyed that Mary's boyfriend was not putting in much effort to look for a job. He was particularly bothered by this because he did not want to play video games and as a result, distract Joe from his job search more than he already was. This was pushing Tim to want a place of his own to call home. On May 1, 2003, he moved out and was on his own for his first time when he was 26 years old. In August, Mary and Joe moved in with Tim. In November, Joe went to jail, which allowed Tim to be alone in his apartment again for a short while until he came back. For his 28th birthday on April 5, 2004, he flew out to New York to meet a long time online friend, Mike. Mike was gay, and had a crush on Tim, but he did not feel the same way about Mike. Tim met a girl named Jane in New York and held hands with her while walking around one day.

On May 1, 2004, Tim moved to Midlothian, Virginia because he wanted to get away from his frustrating living situation in Wisconsin and so he could live with online friends of his. He regrets doing this because he moved away from a girl he fell in love with named Michelle, and may have had a future with. A month after arriving to Virginia, Tim got a job at Walmart. Mike said he would move in with Tim, but kept pushing the date he would arrive back farther. Tim was also living with an online friend and her boyfriend. Three months after he moved there, they broke up. This left Tim at an awkward position where he could move elsewhere or stay in Virginia.

In December of 2004, Tim moved back to Neenah, Wisconsin. He temporarily settled in his sister's old apartment. He went back to Pick 'n Save for a job. His first day of work there was January 15th, 2005. On April 1, 2005, Tim moved into the apartment that he would soon start his YouTube Career in. In this time, he would go through a phase of playing online MMORPGs such as Kingdom of Loathing, Dead Awaken, and Hobo Wars. He also found out about Lost, which became his favorite show. On April 24, 2006, he created his first YouTube channel JealousGuy.

Career

YouTube career

"Howdy guys, it's NintendoCapriSun here!"

―Tim at the beginning of almost every single Let's Play video he makes

Tim in the 2000s

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 Claireathan Wheeler (Proton Claire) and UltraJayMan, so he had the idea. He had to come up with a name; NintendoCapriSun. On December 27, 2007, Tim began his Let's Play career with a playthrough of Super Mario Bros. 3.

Tim in 2012

Since starting his career in 2007, Tim has become one of the most prolific Let's Players, having done over 200 Let's Plays as of 2024. He has primarily done Let's Plays for Nintendo games, including games from The Legend of Zelda series,and the Super Mario franchise. In July 2010, Tim had his account temporarily suspended under false copyright claims, as did Emile Rosales-Birou (Chuggaaconroy) a few weeks later, and they had their accounts restored a month later. On August 11, 2010, Tim 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 Ace Attorney, Banjo-Kazooie, Shadow of the Colossus, Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch, and Plants vs. Zombies.

Tim in 2021

Tim achieved the height of his fame with his Plants vs. Zombies Let's Play in 2011, and he has since Let's Played the sequel, Plants Vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare, as well as the original again but with different methods of playing it (such as the No Sunflower challenge, the Rainbow challenge, and playing the game at 2x speed). Because of the success of his first Plants vs. Zombies Let's Play, YouTube listed him as the "official" Plants vs. Zombies channel for a short time. Tim has over 400 thousand subscribers and 369 million views as of 2024.

To celebrate 15 years on Youtube, Tim raced Super Mario Bros 3 against himself, specifically his "Stupoid Run" from years ago. He spent his time alternately agreeing with, arguing with, laughing at and cringing at his past self, often making the same joke simultaneously or singing along in synch. 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.

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 main channel, NintendoCapriSun, which ultimately happened in 2010 when both his main channel and Chuggaaconroy's channel were suspended for false copyright claims.
• 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 Streaming career

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 Claire 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

The Runaway Guys

Chuggaaconroy and Proton Claire had spoken a lot about collaborating on a project where they could meet up and play games together. They had been great friends for quite awhile, in fact Emile was inspired by Claire to pursue a YouTube career. At Magfest 9, they began to record games with who was at the time a guest, Tim. They had the dynamic of playing together in the same room instead of what was done at the time which was post commentary or video calls. The first game they played for the channel was Mario Party 1 for N64. Overtime, Tim became a permanent member to the group. Their next LP was New Super Mario Bros Wii (filmed at PAX East), where they brought on their actual first guest, fellow Let's Player Josh Jepson. This became a running trend where in some Let's Plays, player 4 would be guest YouTubers such as MasaeAnela, Lucahjin, SuperJeenius, StephenPlays and Tom Fawkes.

The channel had a variety of ideas for names. The prototype name for the channel was Kaizo, as to hide the idea of the channel in public as it shared the same name as Claire's, at the time, recent playthrough. The team struggled to come up with a name with one infamous name being a joke name, 'PressL2P'. However, in the end, TheRunawayGuys stuck and the channel was created on 2 December 2010. From the beginning, the group filmed in hotels near the Convention venue, as at the time it was the only convenient time for everyone to meet up to record, however after 2016, the group decided to record at Emile's house where they would marathon one or two games over a three-day period to pad out an entire year's worth of content. They meet up together 2 to 3 times a year. With multiplayer games, the three core members playing the video game, featuring their commentary, experience with (and opinions of) the chosen game, as well as related and unrelated discussions. Sometimes they'll bring on another youtuber as a 4th member/guest. With single player games, 1 member with barely any experience with the game and play through it to the end with the other two co-commentating and giving pointers. The channel uploads every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday until the LP is done. Once the LP is done, they'll play the a 'Side Collab' until the next LP is finished editing. Along with their official long-running LPs, they have done 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 have their own panel, called Thrown Controllers, a live game show which focuses on video game trivia and challenges. The event has been 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 are 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. At conventions, the group have also held Q&As where fans can come up and ask questions to The Runaway Guys. This became a trend at Momocon 2015 and has continued through most of their panels.

In 2018, Claire was approached by charity organisation Direct Relief if the The Runaway Guys would like to do a charity marathon similar to Zeldathon, a Zelda games marathon. Claire agreed and they teamed up to create a 3-day charity marathon event called The Runaway Guys Colosseum, which ran from 2018 to 2024. This event benefitted and was in partnership with Direct Relief Gaming, under their Direct Relief Colosseum event series. Direct Relief is a humanitarian charity giving medical support to people around the world regardless of politics, religion, or ability to pay. Since the channel is known best for Mario Party, their inaugural and signature collab game series, the theming of the event was centered around the Mario Party series. This didn’t end with a Mario Party segment being thrown in almost every year, it even went down to the donation sounds originating from games across the Mario Bros. and Mario Party series. All 12+ hours of air time between the three days were jam packed with entertainment. The events and games played varied each year included incentives for the audience to donate toward. These incentives could be as simple as impeding the players' progress of current games, to bonus streams such as the aftermath of the Chaos Cookie (playing the top 10 or so games donated by the end of the segment). In 2025, it was announced by SuperMCGamer, the event coordinator, that the entire event would be retired. Scheduling issues with the various cast members (due to personal lives & projects) left them with less people available than expected, and they didn't want to bring in a bunch of new faces to make up for it and thus risk straying away from what the event was meant to be. So they opted to retire it on a high note instead. Future event plans with the group have not been announced at this time.

The second of the main three Runaway Guys, Tim is the quietest and nicest of the three. This usually means Emile and Claire will beat him, though he's not by any means bad at games. In the Mario Parties, Mario Kart 64 and Fortune Street, he played Yoshi. In the New Super Mario Bros.series, he played Luigi. In Kirby's Return to Dream Land, he played King Dedede. In Super Smash Bros, he initially played Yoshi in his match against Emile, then switched to Fox for the remainder of the video. In the Tournament Arc of Super Smash Bros Brawl, he played Diddy Kong. In Mario Power Tennis, he played Yoshi. In the Rayman series, he played a Teensie. In Castle Crashers, he played Green Knight. In The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures, he played Green Link. In Secret of Mana he played the Sprite. In 100% Orange Juice!, he plays as Suguri.

Collaborations and Guest Appearances

Tim has collaborated with several other YouTubers. He has also made several guest appearances. Tim and Emile have worked together on 47 Collab Let's Plays as members of The Runaway Guys, and have also participated in various tournaments and other LPs. On September 5th 2013, Emile was the guest star in "Pokémon Sapphire (Blind) Part 56: The Elite Four (feat. Chugga)", the fifty-sixth episode of Tim's LP of Pokémon Sapphire.

On October 15th 2015, Tim was a guest feature on episode 6 of Emile's Pikmin 3 Mission Mode series entitled Pikmin 3 - Mission 3: Thirsty Desert with NintendoCapriSun, where they played the Thirsty Desert stage and got the platinum rank. The end of the video features a message from Emile which thanks Tim for coming over to do the collaboration, and said that Tim showed a lot of skill for a newcomer. Tim replied to the video by saying "Daaang, I remember being pretty surprised that we managed to platinum that! I figured out to build the bridge early, but beyond that, I was just playing it by ear. Thanks again for allowing me to partake in this epic journey!". Tim has taken over Masae's role of playing through the opposite version to show off major differences, no doubt bolstered by the fact Emile and Tim became housemates in late 2021.

Tim and Emile watching the August 2024 Nintendo Direct

Since 2022, Tim and Emile have done reactions to Nintendo Directs which have been uploaded to Tim's channel. These videos contain their reactions to several game announcements including Xenoblade Chronicles 3, Pikmin 4, Super Mario Wonder, the Super Mario RPG remaster and the Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door remaster. Of these, the reaction to The Thousand-Year Door remaster is perhaps the most notable due to Emile's overjoyed reaction at Mario RPGs not being "fucking shit anymore", referring to his dislike of the modern Paper Mario games (Paper Mario: Sticker Star in particular). Emile uploaded this reaction to his own channel under the title "The Thousand-Year Door Reaction".

The following is Tim's Pokémon in Emile's LP of Pokémon Black 2 & White 2:

• Pizza Hut (Magby)
• Amaryllis (Espeon)
• Free Hugs (Cottonee)
• Cobra Kai (Lucario)
• Churchill (Samurott)
• Helmasaur (Lairon)
• Hope4Hank (Cinccino)
• Splinter (Lillipup)
• Raph (Lillipup)

Tim appeared in the video "Sonic Colors - Sonic Simulator (Part 3)". In August 2024, Emile appeared as a guest for one of Tim's EarthBound Twitch streams. Tim appeared in several episodes of Emile's Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story Let's Play.

Personal life

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. 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.

Tim 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.

Friendship with Emile

Tim has been housemates with Chuggaaconroy since 2021

Tim and Emile are best friends, and have been housemates in Georgia since 2021. Whenever he visited Emile in the past, TIm 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.

On January 24th, 2024, amid the controversy surrounding misconduct allegations against Emile that he later cleared up, Tim revealed that he was not aware about any of the stuff with Emile until the previous week, and he was shocked at the more recent developments. He said that he does not approve of Emile's behavior, but also said that he is "a friend who wants to see him overcome this, move past it, and see that it never happens again". Tim revealed that Emile was getting very serious professional help, but said he wouldn't speak further on that matter as it's "not his story to tell". Regarding the state of The Runaway Guys and/or The Runaway Guys Colosseum, Tim said that he can't make any promises one way or the other, and that he and the rest of The Runaway Guys have got a lot of stuff to figure out but need the time to do so. Tim concluded his statement by offering his sympathies to Masae and all the others who were affected by this, and wished them peace, safety and comfort in the coming weeks and beyond.

The following day, Tim discussed more of his thoughts in two replies on the Chuggaaconroy subreddit. In his first reply, Tim said that he wasn't trying to say what Emile did was okay, because it wasn't. Tim said that kinks are one thing, but that "a lot of us have some that we'd be better off not talking about, but it's important to know when and especially when not to act on them." In his second reply discussing Emile and Masae's falling out, Tim said that he was aware that the two of them weren't getting along and had to cut ties years ago, but was not aware that her discomfort ran that deep.

Tim gave several updates regarding Emile, such as revealing that Emile had been admitted to a hospital with no access to his own phone, and said that "after Emile gets out of rehab, I believe that he wants to disappear and stay with his girlfriend for an unspecified amount of time. He didn't say how long. Could be months, could be a year." When Emile returned home a few days later, Tim had multiple long talks with him and said that he still held him accountable (which he said was pretty hard to do) and Emile said he respected that, but Tim also said that he wasn't giving up on him.

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. 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, which also did not mention the allegations by SunflowerASMR and Tama Hero. It was later reported that, at an undetermined time after Tim's interview, Ant admitted his allegation against Emile had been a misunderstanding.

Amid the controversy, Tim looked out for Emile everyday, made sure he was safe from hurting himself, and overall was a good friend. Emile mentioned Tim in his full statement, in which he referred to Tim as his best friend and revealed that he handled so many decisions in all of this 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.

2010 YouTube suspension

In July 2010, Tim and Emile were suspended under false copyright claims, though both their accounts were later restored weeks later. The temporary suspension led to their channels getting further attention after it was reported on multiple websites including Zelda Universe and Bulbapedia, ironically doing them more good than harm in the end.

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 Pokémon franchise, while another was taken down by a user who claimed ownership over Emile’s voice.

Both Tim and Emile's suspensions were reported on multiple websites including Zelda Universe and Bulbapedia, with Emile sharing these reports to spread word of the controversy. Following his account being restored, Emile began receiving questions asking why Tim also didn't get his account restored; Emile responded by saying "I can personally assure you: He'll be back soon." On August 3rd 2010, Emile revealed that Tim had been unbanned from YouTube.

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)
• The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Ongoing)

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
• Super Mario Galaxy (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

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 Tim 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

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 Claire, 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)

Twitch Let's Plays

• A Link To The Past Randomizer (Uploaded to YouTube)
• Undertale (Uploaded to YouTube)
• Life Is Strange
• Final Fantasy 8 (Uploaded to Youtube)
• Final Fantasy 9
• Danganronpa
• Danganronpa 2
• Paper Mario: The Thousand Year-Door (Uploaded to YouTube)

Collab Let's Plays

Main Collabs

• Mario Party
• New Super Mario Bros. Wii (ft. JoshJepson)
• Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Subspace Emissary)
• Mario Party 2
• Kirby's Return to Dream Land
• Wii Party
• LittleBigPlanet (ft. Lucahjin)
• New Super Mario Bros. U (ft. JoshJepson)
• Castle Crashers (ft. SuperJeenius)
• Mario Party 3
• Wario Ware Inc.: Mega Party Game$
• New Super Luigi U
• Dokapon Kingdom Story Mode
• Mario Party 4
• Rayman Origins
• LittleBigPlanet 2 (ft. Lucahjin)
• Super Mario 3D World (ft. MasaeAnela)
• Super Mario Bros. 3
• Sonic Adventure
• Mario Party 5
• Kirby's Dream Course
• The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures (ft. StephenPlays)
• Rayman Legends (ft. Tom Fawkes)
• Super Metroid (Emile plays, Tim and Claire watch, guide, and occasionally take over)
• Mario Party 6
• The Legend of Zelda: Tri Force Heroes
• Wii Party U
• Pokémon Snap (Tim plays, Emile and Claire watch and guide)
• Mario Party 7
• The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (Emile plays, Tim and Claire watch and guide)
• Pikmin (Claire plays, Tim and Emile watch and guide)
• Kirby & the Amazing Mirror (ft. StephenPlays)
• Star Fox 64 (Emile plays, Tim and Claire watch, guide, and occasionally take over)
• Mario Party 8
• Luigi's Mansion (Tim plays, Emile and Claire watch and guide)
• Overcooked! (ft. Tom Fawkes)
• Secret of Mana
• Battletoads Arcade
• 100% Orange Juice!
• Banjo-Kazooie (Emile plays, Tim and Claire watch and guide)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time (Both arcade and SNES versions; Emile and Tim play the SNES version while Claire guides)
• Mario Party DS
• Donkey Kong Country Returns
• Metroid Prime Remastered (Emile plays, Tim and Claire watch and guide)
• Kirby Star Allies
• Super Mario Bros. Wonder
• Mario Party 9

Side Collabs

• Fortune Street:
  • Yoshi's Island
  • The Observatory (ft. Lucahjin)
  • Mario Stadium (ft. JoshJepson)
  • Slimenia and Delfino Plaza (ft. SuperJeenius)
  • Mt. Magmageddon (ft. MasaeAnela)
  • Robbin Hood Ruins (ft. Lucahjin)
  • Mario Circuit (ft. MasaeAnela)
  • Peach's Castle (ft. StephenPlays)
  • Pirate Ship (ft. Tom Fawkes)
  • Starship Mario (ft. Tom Fawkes)
  • Castle Trodain (ft. MasaeAnela)
  • Super Mario Bros. (ft. StephenPlays)
  • Alefgard (ft. MasaeAnela)
  • Bowser's Castle (ft. Tom Fawkes)
  • Good Egg Galaxy (ft. Tom Fawkes)

• Wheel of Fortune (THQ's 2012 Wii U version)
• Wheel of Fortune (PS4)
• Wheel of Fortune (THQ's 2010 Wii version)
• Wheel of Fortune (Hasbro's 2000 second edition version)
• Wheel of Fortune (Ubisoft's 2018 Switch version)
• Anticipation
• Mario Party Superstars:
  • Yoshi's Tropical Island (ft. JoshJepson)
  • Space Land (ft. Tom Fawkes)
• Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp

Quotes

• "AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!" (From Zelda Let's Plays when a less-than-deserved treasure is collected.)
• "A BEE!" (or "A B!" in Let's Play Conker's Bad Fur Day; when he saw a bee during his Banjo-Kazooie sequelitis)
• "All right, Gin Blossoms!"
• "And smash his face with an iron!"
• "Another Yoshi" (often followed by "So many Yoshi")
• "Balloon Burst!" (From Let's Play Donkey Kong 64 )
• "A chimp that I earned." (From Let's Play Donkey Kong Country 1/2/3)
• "Bitch fish" (From the Battletoads race)
• "Bitchtits" (From Let's Mess Around On Mario Party 2)
• "Boshi Barrels"
• "Boy, I tell ya" (Used frequently when he comments on the game or his personal life)
• "Buttmunch."
• "Butt, you're not loud enough" (whenever the mic can't pick up one of his farts)
• "BUTT!" (Whenever he interupts himself or an important part of the game with a fart)
• "Burn yo ass" (From any of his 3D mario Let's plays when mario hits fire or lava)
• "CAAAAAAT!" (Whenever he gets upset at his cat bothering him)
• "CAT taaails!" (From Let's Play Plants vs. Zombies)
• "Clook Town" (From Let's Play The Legend Of Zelda: Majora's Mask.)
• "CURSE YOU....... CAPRISUN!!!!" (From Let's Play The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time)
• "Dat ass" (From Let's Play Pokemon Sapphire (Blind), referring to Kirlia's back sprite)
• "D'aww, geez!" (From the Battletoads race)
• "Doctor Jesus" (From Let's Play Super Mario 64)
• "Doodoo barrel" (From Let's Play Donkey Kong Country)
• "D'OH I MISSED!"
• "Don't be taking a dump" (when fighting darknuts in Let's Play Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess)
• "Don't slam the door on my face!" (From Let's Play The Legend Of Zelda: Majora's Mask.)
• "DUUUUDE!!"
• Fart! Fart! Fart like you've never farted before! (This is what he says, in order to encourage his character to move quicker.)
• "Fartknocker."
• "First Burp" (From his Personal Tapes)
• "Five flags completed, five flags completed. Five in a row tic-tac-toe, five in a row tic-tac-toe, five in a row tic-tac-toe. That was so stupid that time in school" (From let's play Plants vs. Zombies)
• "Flat-Face-Flute" (From Let's Mess Around On Mario Party 2)
• "Gee Willikers."
• "Get some more toilet paper!"
• "Gidinthibit chiz" (From Let's Play Donkey Kong 64. Said repeatedly during each time he had to play the Beaver Bother bonus game. The actual phrase is "get in there, bitches.")
• "Goodbye my horsey! Goodbye!" (From Let's Play The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time)
• "Holy Crapaloni"
• "Hoot-hoot." (From his Kaepora Gaebora impression, usually hushed.)
• "Howdy, guys. Can you guess where I am right now?"
• "Howdy, guys. This is NintendoCapriSun."
• "I like it when ima snifininininininamama balls." (From Let's Play The Legend Of Zelda: Twilight Princess. Spelling may be suspect.)
• "I'll take Tyson."
• "IN THE BATHROOM!" (most notably in Let's Play Conker's Bad Fur Day, which included a counter for every instance the phrase was said.)
• "Is this okay mommy?"
• (All three of these phrases were combined to make a single sentence in Let's Play Majora's Mask, Pt. 53: Two Heart Pieces And A Wiifreeze?)
• "I'm gonna make you go away. I'm gonna shoot bubbles up your nose!" (From Let's Play The Legend Of Zelda: Majora's Mask while he trying to make the moon go away.)
• "It's a cadldldldldla!" (From Super Mario RPG. Said whenever he encounters a carrot)
• "It's like what an idiot would put on his luggage!" (From Let's Play: The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. In reference to the movie Spaceballs.)
• "It smells like BURNING DEODORANT!"
• "I want that treasure chest!!" (From Let's Play Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door)
• "I would sleep here." (said when he encounters a typically boring, yet nice-looking area of a game.)
• "Keep firing assholes" (From Let's Play Plants vs. Zombies. A reference to a scene from Spaceballs.)
• "Let's see what we got...see what we got!" (This is typically followed by an audible rubbing of hands.)
• "Megaman Megaman" (From Let's Play The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword in reference to Egoraptor's Sequelitis)
• "My chimps that I've earned." (whenever he picks up a DK barrel in DKC 2 and 3)
• "My fish sticks are gitting cold."
• "NOSE!" (After sneezing)
• "Oooooooooooooooooooookay I'm back." (Usually after a video cut)
• "Ooo, ease my poops" (From Let's Play Secret of Evermore Said whenever he collected Oil with a heavy emphasis on the O's)
• "Oot! Shoot!" (After a character lands from falling a great height)
• "Open the door with yo skinny ass arms!"
• "Oppa _____ Style" (From Let's Play Donkey Kong 64)
• "Plant time!" (From Let's Play Ni No Kuni, opened and ended each episode by hiding Oliver behind a close-up of whatever plant he could find)
• "Shield protection, lucky goggles."
• "Sho 'nuff, Hoss!"
• "Silly Goose."
• "Sooo Happy" (Notably counted in Let's Play The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword)
• Sox ooooooooooo (whenever there is a six followed by several zeroes)
• "SPLINTER!" (This is said when an important character in the game is kidnapped)
• "STAR FACE!" (From Let's Play Super Mario Galaxy 2)
• "Star Fox!" (during near-death situations)
• "Stay away from the summoner" (Final Fantasy x) He usually says this in an old woman's voice.
• "StupOid."
• "Super _____ massacre" (This is said when he dies many times in a certain area of a game; often the title of the episode)
• "SWEET MERCIFUL BATMAN!" (From Let's Play Super Mario 64, when the piano in Big Boo's Haunt attacks)
• "Take a dump on the toilet." (Originating as a song lyric in Let's Play Megaman 2. De facto title of lyrics from Let's Play The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask)
• "Take in." (Whenever Robo-Cone Zombies do their eating animation)
• "That's the kind of thing an idiot would put on his luggage!" (Said when accessing the Bomber's Hideout in Majora's Mask. A reference to a scene from Spaceballs.)
• "There goes that glass of milk again..." (From Let's Play Conker's Bad Fur Day)
• "THE TOILET" (clip played over the video)
• "Toilet Princess" (From Let's Play Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess)
• "Tomorrow's Christmas Eve" (A quote from his childhood. Reenacted in a video on BreakingNCS)
• "Too many mans." (From Let's Play Super C)
• "Two times in a row, man. Two times in a row! I try to drink water and it drips down the left side of my faaace!" (From his Tapes)
• "VICTORIOUS! COJIRO!" (From Let's Play The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time and Super Mario Galaxy 2)
• "WHAT?!"
• "(Yoshi!) So happy!" (Whenever there is anything to do with Yoshi)
• "You bite, YOU DIE!" (From Let's Play Super Mario Galaxy 2 whenever he destroys a Petey Pirahna)
• "You can't triple stamp and double stamp Lloyd!" (reference to the movie Dumb and Dumber)
• "You didn't jump, man! You didn't jump!" (From Battletoads 4 player race)
• "You didn't just knock me in the pit!" (From Let's Play Yoshi's Story)
• "He must be on amphetamines!" (Originally from Let's Play Ni No Kuni)
• "You tell that asshole!"
• "I don't even care, I'm gonna wash my hair." (From Tetris 99)

Gallery

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".

See also

• NintendoCapriSun on The Runaway Guys Wiki
• NintendoCapriSun on the Stephen Georg Wiki
• NintendoCapriSun on the PeanutButterGamer Wiki
  • NintendoCapriSun on the PeanutButterGamer Hardcore Series Wiki

References

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