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Giant Bombcast Giant Bombkast: Ed Boon Edition

Giant Bombcast

Giant Bomb

Leisure, Technology, Comedy, Video Games

4.76.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2008

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Jeff, Brad, and Ryan sit down with Mortal Kombat co-creator Ed Boon to discuss MK's place in the world of fighting games, the state of arcades, the potential for Mortal Kombat Vs. Street Fighter, and more.

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0:00.0

Oh, Hey everyone it's it's Friday October the 24th and you relation to a very

0:30.0

special edition of the giant bombcast we are joined here by Midway's own Ed Boone.

0:35.1

Ed how you doing?

0:36.1

Very good.

0:37.1

Of course also joined by Brad Schumaker and Jeff the office's resident mortal combat fiends.

0:43.6

Hello.

0:44.6

So yeah, once you guys just start inundating Ed

0:47.3

with some really hard-hitting questions.

0:50.1

Well, I think I, you know, I wanted to talk kind of more

0:52.4

about fighting games at large and kind of, you know, the Mortal

0:56.4

combat series, like I've been a huge fan of it for years. I've done, you know, I missed high school, large

1:04.4

large sections of it because I could go play Mortal Kombat 2 instead.

1:08.0

Same here.

1:09.0

Stop going to a college class, like basically dropped out of college because I wanted to go to Reno to see

1:15.0

MK3 for the first time.

1:17.0

It was like as I was kind of getting involved in the game industry,

1:20.0

it was like, well, I could finish this journalism class

1:22.0

or go play an early version of

1:23.6

MK3. So how does it feel to have contributed to the delinquency of America's

1:27.7

youth? Well you know what I mean the fact that it kind of led you to the path to doing this stuff.

1:35.0

Yeah. You're doing video games, I think it's, I consider that a good thing.

1:38.0

Yeah, it's worked out pretty well in the end, I'd say.

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