Ed Boon

Edward J. Boon (born March 30, 1964 in Chicago, Illinois) is a video game programmer. Boon, along with John Tobias is a co-creator of the Mortal Kombat fighting game series.

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One of the characters in Boon's Mortal Kombat video games is named Noob Saibot (Boon and John Tobias' last names spelled backwards).
His favorite Mortal Kombat character since the beginning of the franchise has been Scorpion.
He named the character Tanya after his own sister, Tania. As well as naming the character Sonya Blade after his other sister, Sonya.
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).
As a nod to another one of his favorite bands, Genesis, a code for the original
He has faced the winner of GameSpot's Scream It! contest in an MK battle. Users had to show that they were the biggest fan of the series by putting together a video and uploading it to the site. [1]
Boon has stated that he would like to see a Mortal Kombat vs. Street Fighter. [2]
Has stated in the past that his all-time favorite fighting game series is Tekken, and that he likes playing it in his spare time.
- Coincidentally, actor Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, who originally played as Shang Tsung in the first Mortal Kombat film will also take the role of Heihachi Mishima, one of the two antagonists in the upcoming live action film adaptation of Tekken.
His name is seen in the Subway stage of Mortal Kombat 3.Also John Tobias's name is seen,too.

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