Ed Boon - Fatality Lives!

The first time I ever played a home gaming console was on the Sega MegaDrive when I was in third grade. And the first game I ever played was Mortal Kombat. It was love at first sight and a love that has has only grown over the years...

Ed Boon

The reason why Fatality Lives is Ed Boon...


It is only right that I pay homage to the one of the men that have captured my heart and kept me screaming "Get Over Here!" all day long.

Edward J. Boon (born February 22, 1964 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American video game programmer and director who had been employed for over 15 years at Midway Games and currently works for Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment in its subsidiary company NetherRealm Studios, where he is the executive producer of the Mortal Kombat series.

Rd Boon in front of Midway logo

Boon, along with John Tobias, is a co-creator of the Mortal Kombat series. Boon and Tobias also worked with two others in making the original Mortal Kombat. John Vogel and Dan Forden were their only two companions for the first game and those four were the whole crew. His entire career in the video gaming business (including work on pinball machines) has been loyally spent at Midway Games (which was retitled NetherRealm Studios for Mortal Kombat 9).

Rd Boon with the Mortal Kombat logo

Ed Boon provides the voice of Scorpion in the Mortal Kombat games as well as both feature films. Because of this, the 2008 edition of Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition awarded him a world record for "longest-serving video game voice actor", having been the voice of Scorpion since the series began in 1992. 

Rd Boon

One of the characters in Boon's Mortal Kombat video games is named Noob Saibot (Boon and John Tobias' last names spelled backwards). He named the character Tanya after his own sister, Tania. As well as naming the character Sonya Blade after his other sister, Sonya. His name is seen in the Subway stage of Mortal Kombat 3. Also, John Tobias's name is seen too.

Rd Boon in front of the Injustice: Gods Among Us logo

He also played part in the creation of Injustice: Gods Among Us, a product of NetherRealm Studios.

You can follow Ed on Twitter here: Ed Boon

Mortal Kombat is, and will always be my most favourite and best fighting game of all time.

Thank you Ed!

Your VB Kid
Psypher