Dan Forden
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Daniel Warren Forden (born September 28, 1963 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American sound programmer, music composer, and the lead on several high-profile arcade and pinball games. The most notable he has worked on is the Mortal Kombat fighting game series.
Forden is best known for an easter egg that first appeared in Mortal Kombat II, where Forden's head would appear in the bottom-right corner of the screen and shout "Toasty!" when a perfect uppercut was performed. Certain events, usually involving Sub-Zero, would make him appear and shout "Frosty!". There were many gamers who saw him for the first time in Mortal Kombat II but thought that he was actually saying "Whoopsy!" because they were doing badly or because they had messed up a combo. This Easter egg would reappear in other Mortal Kombat games.
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[edit] Discography
- Mortal Kombat II: Music from the Arcade Game Soundtrack (1993)
- Mortal Kombat Musik: MK3 & MK4 Arcade Video Game Soundtrack (1997)
[edit] Forden's Works
[edit] Pinball
[edit] Williams
- Black Knight 2000 (with Brian Schmidt and Steve Ritchie)
- Bad Cats
- RollerGames
- Riverboat Gambler (with Paul Heitsch)
- Harley Davidson
- The Machine: Bride of Pin*Bot (with Jon Hey and Rich Karstens)
- The Getaway: High Speed II
- Star Trek: The Next Generation
- No Fear: Dangerous Sports
- Medieval Madness
[edit] Midway (Bally)
- Atlantis (with Robin Seaver)
- Mousin' Around!
- Harley-Davidson
- Party Zone
- The Pinball Circus
- The Shadow
- Attack From Mars
- Safecracker
- Revenge From Mars
[edit] Stern
[edit] Video games
[edit] Midway
- Arch Rivals
- Pigskin 621 A.D.
- Super High Impact
- Mortal Kombat series
- NFL Blitz series
- HyperDrive
- The Grid
- CART Fury
[edit] Williams
- High Impact Football
[edit] Trivia
- He is credited in the Mortal Kombat series as Dan "Toasty" Forden.
- In the Graveyard stage of Mortal Kombat 3, a headstone has 'Forden' written on it.