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American video game producer

Ed Boon (born February 22, 1964) 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.

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 University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. 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. He is the co creator of the Mortal Kombat fighting game series, along with John Tobias, and served as the series' lead programmer, with Tobias 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, while another character, Noob Saibot, was named after Boon and Tobias' reversed surnames. This is also elaborated in their Twitter handles, @noobde and @therealsaibot. Programmer Mike Boon is Ed's younger brother, and has been in his team since Mortal Kombat 4. Boon was ranked #100 in IGN's 2009 list of "Top 100 Game Creators" for his involvement in the Mortal Kombat series. 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 uttered by Scorpion in every installment 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." In 2018 Mortal Kombat was exhibited in an arcade cabinet at the Chicago New Media 1973–1992 exhibition, curated by jonCates.

Year Title Role(s) 1990 High Impact Football 1991 Super High Impact 1992 Total Carnage Voice of General Akhboob 1992 Mortal Kombat Designer, programmer, voice of Scorpion, Reptile, Shang Tsung (announcer) 1993 Mortal Kombat II Designer, programmer, voice of Scorpion, Smoke, Noob Saibot, Liu Kang, and Jax 1995 Mortal Kombat 3 Designer, programmer, voice of Smoke, Liu Kang and Jax 1995 Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 Executive producer, designer, programmer, voice of Scorpion 1996 Mortal Kombat Trilogy Designer, programmer 1997 Mortal Kombat 4 Designer, programmer, voice of Johnny Cage, Raiden, Kai, Scorpion and Jax 1999 Mortal Kombat Gold Project lead, voice of Cyrax 2001 The Grid 2002 Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance Team lead, game design, programming, voice of Scorpion 2004 Mortal Kombat: Deception Project lead, game design, programming, voice of Scorpion, Reiko, Sub Zero and Noob Saibot 2005 Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks Executive producer, voice of Scorpion 2006 Mortal Kombat: Armageddon Creative director 2008 Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe Creative director, team leader 2011 Mortal Kombat Team leader, creative director, additional voices 2011 Batman: Arkham City Lockdown Creative director 2013 Injustice: Gods Among Us Creative director, team leader 2013 Batman: Arkham Origins 2015 Mortal Kombat X Creative director, team leader 2017 Injustice 2 Creative director, team leader 2019 Mortal Kombat 11 Creative director, team leader2023Mortal Kombat 1Creative director, team leader