Daniel Pesina as "Johnny Cage" in Mortal Kombat II.

Daniel Pesina (born 1959 in Chicago, Illinois) is a martial arts expert and a former employee of Midway. He is most recognized as the actor who played Johnny Cage and ninjas Sub-Zero, Scorpion, Reptile, Smoke, and Noob Saibot in Mortal Kombat and Mortal Kombat II. Image File history File links Pesina_cage. ... Image File history File links Pesina_cage. ... Johnny Cage is the stage name of Jonathan Carlton, a video game character from the Mortal Kombat fighting game series. ... Mortal Kombat II is an arcade game and the second title in the Mortal Kombat fighting game series. ... 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Nickname: The Windy City Motto: Urbs In Horto (Latin: City in a Garden), I Will Official website: http://egov. ... Midway Games (NYSE: MWY) is an American video game publisher known for such game series as Mortal Kombat, NBA Jam and Spy Hunter. ... Johnny Cage is the stage name of Jonathan Carlton, a video game character from the Mortal Kombat fighting game series. ... Sub-Zero is the name of two characters from the Mortal Kombat series. ... Scorpion is a character from the Mortal Kombat fighting game series. ... Reptile is a character in the Mortal Kombat fighting game series. ... Smoke is a character in the Mortal Kombat fighting game series. ... Noob Saibot is a character from the Mortal Kombat fighting game series. ... Mortal Kombat has multiple meanings. ... Mortal Kombat II is an arcade game and the second title in the Mortal Kombat fighting game series. ...

Pesina was fired from Midway in 1994 after sporting the Johnny Cage garb from MKII in an ad for the Strata arcade game, BloodStorm, which turned out to be an emphatic flop among fighting game fans. The ad first appeared in the debut issue of the now-defunct Electronic Gaming Monthly spinoff magazine EGM2. 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... Mortal Kombat II is an arcade game and the second title in the Mortal Kombat fighting game series. ... Centipede by Atari is a typical example of a 1980s era arcade game. ... Title screen BloodStorm is a fighting game released into arcades in 1994 by Strata and developed by Incredible Technologies, the same people who created Time Killers. ... Cover for issue number 203: Too Human. ...

After his firing from Midway, further ventures into other fighting games proved unsuccessful. After the failure of BloodStorm, he and his brother Carlos Pesina assisted Data East with its digitized MK clone Tattoo Assassins, which never made it to arcades. In 1995, he and fellow MK actors Ho Sung Pak, Katalin Zamiar, and Dr. Phillip Ahn, M.D. all appeared in a fighting game produced exclusively for the Atari Jaguar titled Thea Realm Fighters, but it was never released after Atari ceased production on the failed system later that year. Carlos Pesina is an employee of Midway, who is most recognized as the actor who played Raiden in Mortal Kombat, Mortal Kombat II, and Mortal Kombat Trilogy. ... Data East (データイースト dēta īsuto) was a Japanese video game company, also known as DECO (Data East Corporation, データイースト株式会社 dēta īsuto kabushikigaisha). ... Tattoo Assassins is a 1994 fighting game by Data East. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Ho Sung Pak is a Korean American film actor, martial artist, action choregrapher, writer and producer, born in 1968. ... The Atari Jaguar is a video game console introduced in November 1993 as a powerful next generation platform. ...

Daniel Pesina as "The Hitman" in The Book of Swords.

Pesina appeared in the 1992 movie Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Secret of the Ooze, in which he played one of Shredder's foot soldiers. In 2002, he played a small part in the martial arts movie The Book of Swords. He portrayed a hitman whose task was to take out the movie's leading man (played by Pak). The movie also starred Zamiar and another MK actor, Richard Divizio. In a nod to his Mortal Kombat alter ego Johnny Cage, Pesina is shown wearing sunglasses, while the other three actors are also seen in similar MK clothing/roles throughout the movie. Image File history File links BookofSwordsDanPesina1. ... Image File history File links BookofSwordsDanPesina1. ... Richard Divizio (born September 6, 1968 in Chicago, Illinois) is a computer artist who has portrayed a diverse host of characters in the popular Mortal Kombat fighting game series. ...

As of 2004 Dan Pesina is a teacher at the Chicago Wushuguan School, while Carlos, who played Raiden in the 2D Mortal Kombat games, has been employed at Midway since 1995. Raiden (also Rayden), is a video game character who appears in the Mortal Kombat fighting game series. ...

Daniel Pesina in Wushu gear.

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External links

• Dan Pesina at The Internet Movie Database
• Sifu Daniel
• Lost Games: Thea Realm Fighters
• The Book of Swords (2002) at The Internet Movie Database