Fallout: New Vegas’ Wayne Newton Talks Character

USA Today caught up with Bethesda producer Jason Bergman and Wayne Newton himself to quickly chat about the entertainer’s in-game Fallout: New Vegas character – Mr. Las Vegas.

The quips delivered by Mr. New Vegas include suggestions to listeners to keep “living the dream.” The character, Newton says, “has a perverted sense of humor.”

The designers created the role for Newton “because he is Las Vegas,” Bergman says. “He really brings that extra touch of Vegas class to the game. … And whether he’s reading news stories about super mutants or introducing a Dean Martin song, his personality comes through.”

“I have never been in a video game before and, frankly, have never played, simply because I have been working my whole life,” Newton says.

Newton says he’d read the dialogue one-liners in some cases, two or three lines in others and “do them just a little bit different, each one, until we hit on what it was the guys wanted … where it is Wayne Newton, but it’s not Wayne Newton, you know?”