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Ed Boon
American video game producer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Edward Boon (born February 22, 1964)[1] is an American video game programmer, voice actor, and director. Boon was employed for over 15 years at Midway Games. Since 2011, he has worked for Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment for one of its subsidiaries, NetherRealm Studios.
Boon is best known for the widely popular Mortal Kombat series, which he created with John Tobias, and the Injustice series. In 2009, he was chosen by IGN as one of the top 100 game creators of all time.[2]
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Boon graduated from high school at Loyola Academy in Wilmette. Boon is of Hispanic descent, from the Dominican Republic. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics and computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.[3][4]
After graduation, he was employed by Williams Entertainment in their pinball department, working on approximately 20 pinball games over the next two years. During this time, he was called the Mortal Master, an early indicator towards a future creation.[5]
He is the co-creator of the Mortal Kombat fighting game series, along with John Tobias,[6] and served as the series' lead programmer, with Tobias as the lead designer, until their partnership dissolved with Tobias' departure from Midway in 2000. Boon named series characters Sonya and Tanya after his sisters Sonia and Tania,[7] while another character, Noob Saibot, was named after Boon and Tobias' reversed surnames.[8] Programmer Mike Boon is Ed's younger brother and has been a part of his team since Mortal Kombat 4.[4] The Boons are Hispanic and Dominican by ethnicity.[1]
Boon was featured in IGN's 2009 list of "Top 100 Game Creators" for his involvement in the Mortal Kombat series.[2] He continues to be directly involved with the MK franchise and its multimedia side projects and has also provided voice acting and motion capture work for the games, most notably providing the voice for the "Come here!" and "Get over here!" catchphrases by Scorpion in several games of the series as well as the first two feature films Mortal Kombat and Mortal Kombat Annihilation. The 2008 edition of Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition consequently awarded him a world record for the "longest-serving video game voice actor."[9]
In 2018, Mortal Kombat was exhibited in an arcade cabinet at the Chicago New Media 1973–1992 exhibition, curated by jonCates.[10]
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