Ed Boon

Ed Boon, on a G4TV interview

Edward J. 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.

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One of the characters in Boon's Mortal Kombat video games is named Noob Saibot, Ed and John Tobias' last names 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.
Boon is a longtime fan of recording artist Prince; this has long been attributed to the selection of ninja Rain's purple palette swap since the character's debut appearance in Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 (1995).
Before he made himself famous for the Mortal Kombat series, he worked at Williams in the pinball division and also helped out with the development of Smash TV and Pigskin 621 A.D. arcade games.
He has a younger brother, named Mike Boon. Mike is known for programming pinball games (including the 1992 classic The Addams Family), and he was involved in the Mortal Kombat 4 project.

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