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Encyclopedia > Ed Boon
Ed Boon, on a G4TV interview
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Ed Boon, on a G4TV interview

Ed Boon (born March 30, 1964 in Chicago, Illinois), along with John Tobias is a co-creator of the Mortal Kombat fighting game series. He continues to work on the ongoing series of games, movies and TV shows. Boon is generally credited as the lead programmer while Tobias is lead designer. He has also provided voice acting and motion capture for the games. Image File history File links EdBoon. ... Image File history File links EdBoon. ... G4 was a cable television channel devoted to the world of video games and the people who play them. ... March 30 is the 89th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (90th in Leap years). ... For the Nintendo 64 emulator, see 1964 (Emulator). ... Chicago, Illinois is the current Good Article Collaboration of the week! Please help take it from Good to Featured article status. ... John Tobias along with Ed Boon, created the Mortal Kombat fighting game series for Midway. ... Mortal Kombat has multiple meanings. ... Screenshot of Kung Fu Master (1984, Irem). ... Film refers to the celluloid media on which movies are printed. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... A voice actor (also a voice artist) is a person who provides voices for animated characters (including those in feature films, television series, animated shorts), voice-overs in radio and television commercials, audio dramas, dubbed foreign language films, video games, puppet shows, and amusement rides. ... Motion capture, or mocap, is a technique of digitally recording the movements of real things — usually humans — it originally developed as an analysis tool in biomechanics research, but has grown increasingly important as a source of motion data for computer animation. ...


Boon graduated in 1986 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a Bachelor of Science degree in math and computer science. 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, also known as UIUC and the U of I (the officially preferred abbreviation), is the flagship campus in the University of Illinois system. ... A Bachelor of Science (B.S., B.Sc. ... Incorrect shortening of Mathematics. ... Computer science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and their implementation and application in computer systems. ...


List of works

Video games:

Film: The Grid is a 2001 arcade game by Midway. ... Mortal Kombat has multiple meanings. ... Mortal Kombat II is an arcade game and the second title in the Mortal Kombat fighting game series. ... Mortal Kombat 3 is the third game in the Mortal Kombat series, released in arcades in 1995. ... Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 is a fighting game in the Mortal Kombat series, released in arcades in 1995. ... Mortal Kombat Trilogy is an anthology in the Mortal Kombat fighting game series. ... Mortal Kombat 4 was the last game in the Mortal Kombat series to have an arcade version. ... Mortal Kombat Gold is a fighting game in the Mortal Kombat series. ... Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance is a video game developed and produced by Midway. ... Mortal Kombat: Deception is the latest game in the controversial and bloody Mortal Kombat video game series by Midway. ...

Mortal Kombat is a 1995 movie, directed by Paul W. S. Anderson. ... Superfamilies Pseudochactoidea Buthoidea Chaeriloidea Chactoidea Iuroidea Scorpionoidea See the classification sectionfor families. ... Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (1997) was directed by John R. Leonetti. ...

External links

The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is an online database of information about actors, movies, television shows, television stars and video games. ...

Trivia

  • One of the characters in Boon's Mortal Kombat video games is named Noob Saibot, Ed and John Tobias' last names backwards. His website is also Noob.com, a reference to his name backwards.
  • His favourite Mortal Kombat character ever since the franchaise began has always been Scorpion: the undead ninja who seeks revenge for the death of his family and clan.
  • He named the character Tanya after his own sister, Tania.
  • Despite defecting from Midway in 2000, John Tobias still has a good relationship with Ed Boon, and even keeps in contact with him.
Persondata
NAME Boon, Ed
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION video game creator
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH

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N-Europe: News: Ed Boon Talks Mortal Kombat (466 words)
Ed Boon: I have a number of ideas that we are going to try out, but don't think we are at the point in development where we can talk about the details of how the control scheme is going to work.
Ed Boon: Actually, my comments in the past were referring to the Wii-mote and the traditional fighting formula/format that exists today.
Ed Boon: I hope the Wii is going to carve out its own market and will be very successful.
MK5.ORG: The Voice of Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance (1332 words)
Ed Boon: Yeah, we have the special moves for Shang but we disabled them because we're still in kind of like a balancing phase.
Ed Boon: No, unfortunately, we can't load in - it's kind of like the problem with the old disk-based versions where morphing consists of having to grab a lot of data and you can't grab instantly on that.
Ed Boon: Oh, no. A lot of them are functioning and they work in the game but we just wanted to show the game that we have.
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