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Daniel Pesina
Daniel Pesina (born December 1, 1959) is an American martial arts expert and a former freelance employee of Midway. Pesina was born in Chicago, Illinois to Mexican born parents and have study martial arts since the age of 10. Pesina started his work as an extra in martial arts films, appearing as one of Shredder's foot soldiers in the 1991 film '' Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze''. A lifelong friend of designer John Tobias, Pesina was brought by him to work in a fighting game featuring digitized characters, 1992's '' Mortal Kombat'', where he played Johnny Cage and ninja characters Scorpion, Sub-Zero and Reptile, and served as a martial arts coordinator for the game. Then in ''Mortal Kombat II'' he reprised his roles from the previous game, also playing the roles of Smoke, and Noob Saibot. After his participation in ''MKII'', Pesina parted from Midway, and sued them for unpaid royalties from his likeness being used in the console versions of the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicago
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Noob Saibot
Noob Saibot is a fictional character in the '' Mortal Kombat'' fighting game franchise by Midway Games and NetherRealm Studios. Initially introduced as a black silhouette of the series' other male ninjas and sharing their special moves, he was given his own unique movement style and appearance in later games. His name is derived from the surnames of ''Mortal Kombat'' creators Ed Boon and John Tobias spelled backwards. As Noob Saibot, the character debuted as a hidden opponent in ''Mortal Kombat II'' (1993) and became playable in the console versions of ''Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3'' (1996). He is first depicted as an undead wraith and member of the malevolent Brotherhood of the Shadow cult. His backstory was further expanded in '' Mortal Kombat: Deception'' (2004), where he is revealed as Bi-Han, the elder Sub-Zero from the original 1992 game. Reception to the character has been generally positive, particularly in regard to his Fatality finishing moves. He has also appeare ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Male Actors From Chicago
Male (symbol: ♂) is the sex of an organism that produces the gamete (sex cell) known as sperm, which fuses with the larger female gamete, or ovum, in the process of fertilization. A male organism cannot reproduce sexually without access to at least one ovum from a female, but some organisms can reproduce both sexually and asexually. Most male mammals, including male humans, have a Y chromosome, which codes for the production of larger amounts of testosterone to develop male reproductive organs. Not all species share a common sex-determination system. In most animals, including humans, sex is determined genetically; however, species such as ''Cymothoa exigua'' change sex depending on the number of females present in the vicinity. In humans, the word ''male'' can also be used to refer to gender in the social sense of gender role or gender identity. Overview The existence of separate sexes has evolved independently at different times and in different lineages, an example o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1959 Births
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Twitter
Twitter is an online social media and social networking service owned and operated by American company Twitter, Inc., on which users post and interact with 280-character-long messages known as "tweets". Registered users can post, like, and 'Reblogging, retweet' tweets, while unregistered users only have the ability to read public tweets. Users interact with Twitter through browser or mobile Frontend and backend, frontend software, or programmatically via its APIs. Twitter was created by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams (Internet entrepreneur), Evan Williams in March 2006 and launched in July of that year. Twitter, Inc. is based in San Francisco, California and has more than 25 offices around the world. , more than 100 million users posted 340 million tweets a day, and the service handled an average of 1.6 billion Web search query, search queries per day. In 2013, it was one of the ten List of most popular websites, most-visited websites and has been de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Press Start
''Press Start'' is a 2007 independent film produced by Dark Maze Studios. It stars Joshua Stafford, Peter Davis, Daniel Pesina, and Carlos Pesina. The film is a video game parody adventure comedy. It was released on DVD on September 25, 2007. Production The film was shot in Champaign and Chicago, Illinois. ''Press Start'' is scored by American video game music composer Jake Kaufman. The two characters played by Daniel and Carlos Pesina in ''Press Start'', Sasori and Lei-Gong, are pastiches of their respective characters in the original '' Mortal Kombat'' game, Scorpion and Raiden. A sequel, ''Press Start 2 Continue'', was released in 2011. Focus ''Press Start'' focuses its parodic tone primarily toward the era of 8-bit and 16-bit video games, but references more modern games as well. Games parodied range from ''Donkey Kong'' to ''Halo''. The film also satirizes all aspects of gaming, including collectible card games, Saturday morning cartoons, comic books, and trend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ho-Sung Pak
Ho-Sung Pak (born November 8, 1967) is a Korean-American film actor, stunt performer, martial artist, action choreographer, game character, writer, and producer. Life and career Pak, a Korean American, was born in Chicago, Illinois. He played lead character Liu Kang in the first ''Mortal Kombat'' and ''Mortal Kombat II'', as well as the original elderly version of Shang Tsung in the first game. He was a stunt coordinator for the movie '' Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze'' as well as a stunt double for Raphael; he later reprised his role of stunt double in the movie ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III''. Pak, along with other actors from the first two ''Mortal Kombat'' games, refused to appear in ''Mortal Kombat 3'' due to a royalty dispute with developer Midway over the use of their likenesses across various console versions of the first two games, resulting in the casting of new actors for some of the returning characters. In 1995, Pak and fellow ''Mor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katalin Zamiar
Katalin Rodriguez-Ogren (maiden name Katalin Rodriguez Zamiar, best known as Katalin Zamiar) (born August 12, 1971 in Chicago) is an American martial artist, sportswriter, fitness instructor, gym owner and martial arts actress. Life and career Katalin Zamiar holds a degree in anthropology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she became a forensic science teacher. She has studied martial arts since 1982 and is an accomplished martial artist holding Black Belts in Kung Fu, Taekwondo, Shorin Ryu and Gōjū-ryū Karate. and . She has owned POW! Mixed Martial Arts and Chicago Krav Maga training centers since 2001. Along with teaching at her training center in downtown Chicago, she has often covered the UFC for ''Grappling'' magazine, focusing primarily on features and interviews. She has published more than 150 articles in various martial arts magazines including '' Black Belt'' and ''Inside Kung Fu'', and has been featured in magazines such as ''Shape'', ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NetherRealm Studios
NetherRealm Studios (stylized as NetheЯRealm Studios) is an American video game developer based in Chicago and owned by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. Led by video game industry veteran and ''Mortal Kombat'' co-creator Ed Boon, the studio is in charge of developing the ''Mortal Kombat'' and ''Injustice (franchise), Injustice'' series of fighting games. History On February 12, 2009, Midway Games filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the United States. Warner Bros. subsequently acquired "substantially all of the assets", including ''Mortal Kombat'', ''This Is Vegas'' and the Midway Games company structure, on July 10, 2009. While Warner Bros. went on to close most of Midway Games' Chicago headquarters and San Diego, California and Liverpool, England, development studios, they retained the Midway Games Chicago development studio, which became part of Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, Interactive Entertainment. The remaining studio was renamed WB Games Chicago several ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tattoo Assassins
''Tattoo Assassins'' is an unreleased 1994 fighting game developed by the pinball division of Data East for release in Arcade game, arcades. A few prototypes were test-marketed, but the game was never officially released. Spearheaded by Bob Gale (screenwriter for ''Back to the Future'') and Joe Kaminkow (leader of Data East Pinball, now known as Stern (game company), Stern Pinball), ''Tattoo Assassins'' was designed to be Data East's answer to ''Mortal Kombat''. The game was essentially completed before it was cancelled, though it has some minor gameplay and sound glitches, and prototype cabinets were released to test markets in 1994. Reception ''Tattoo Assassins'' was reviewed in ''Next Generation (magazine), Next Generation''; the reviewer panned the game for poor synchronization between controls and characters, sometimes choppy animation, and most especially the game's "extraordinary lack of any real innovation." References External links Dan's Tattoo Assassins pag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlos Pesina
Carlos Pesina (born November 15, 1967) is an American martial artist and employee of NetherRealm Studios. He is most recognized as the actor who played Raiden (Mortal Kombat), Raiden in ''Mortal Kombat (1992 video game), Mortal Kombat'', ''Mortal Kombat II'', and ''Mortal Kombat Trilogy''. Since 1995, he has worked for Midway Games as a motion capture artist and animator. In 1994, Pesina aided Data East, Data East USA on its failed attempt at a ''Mortal Kombat'' inspiration titled ''Tattoo Assassins''. Despite the bad history, however, Carlos is still employed by Midway, now Netherrealm Studios, as an art lead. The hidden playable character in ''Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance'', Mokap, was created in tribute to Carlos' motion capture work at Midway. In the Konquest Mode of ''Mortal Kombat: Deception,'' the protagonist, Shujinko, has to do a quest for the ruler of Orderrealm; the ruler states that Shujinko needs to find an agent named "Parlos Casina", a spoonerism on Pesina's name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BloodStorm
''BloodStorm'' is a 1994 arcade fighting game published by Strata and developed by Incredible Technologies. It is considered a quasi-sequel to '' Time Killers''. ''BloodStorm'' was dubbed as a possible "'' Mortal Kombat''-killer" in an attempt to surpass rival Midway Games's success with ''Mortal Kombat'', though it did not prevail. It was the last game Strata produced before the company went out of business. Home ports for the Saturn and PlayStation were announced in early 1995, but were later cancelled. Plot ''BloodStorm'' is set in a distant, post-apocalyptic future where the world, ravaged by war and famine, has divided into eight provinces ruled by the High Emperor. At the start of the game, the Emperor is assassinated by an unknown assailant, bringing the Empire to the brink of a global war. In accordance with ancient laws the ruling kings and queens of the provinces agree to gather and have a tournament, dubbed the BloodStorm, to determine the next High Emperor, in h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
