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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 has studied 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
Chicago is the List of municipalities in Illinois, most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States. With a population of 2,746,388, as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, it is the List of United States cities by population, third-most populous city in the United States after New York City and Los Angeles. As the county seat, seat of Cook County, Illinois, Cook County, the List of the most populous counties in the United States, second-most populous county in the U.S., Chicago is the center of the Chicago metropolitan area, often colloquially called "Chicagoland" and home to 9.6 million residents. Located on the shore of Lake Michigan, Chicago was incorporated as a city in 1837 near a Chicago Portage, portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River, Mississippi River watershed. It grew rapidly in the mid-19th century. In 1871, the Great Chicago Fire destroyed several square miles and left more than 100,000 homeless, but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smoke (Mortal Kombat)
This is a list of playable and boss characters from the ''Mortal Kombat'' fighting game franchise and the games in which they appear. Created by Ed Boon and John Tobias, the series depicts conflicts between various realms. Most characters fight on behalf of their realm, with the primary heroes defending Earthrealm against conquering villains from Outworld and the Netherrealm. Early installments feature the characters participating in the eponymous Mortal Kombat tournament to decide their realm's fate. In later installments, Earthrealm is often invaded by force. A total of 77 playable fighters have been featured in the series, in addition to unplayable bosses and guest characters. Much of the franchise's mainstays were introduced during the first three games. Nearly all of the characters have been killed at a point in the story, but have rarely stayed dead. Introduced in ''Mortal Kombat'' (1992) Goro : Portrayed by: Tom Woodruff Jr. (1995 film) : Voiced by: Herman Sanchez ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Martial Artists
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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 fertilisation. 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. 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 of convergent evolution. The repeated pattern is sexual reproduction in isogamous species with two or more mating types with gametes of identical form and behavior (but different at the molecular level) to anisogamous species with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1959 Births
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Twitter
Twitter, officially known as X since 2023, is an American microblogging and social networking service. It is one of the world's largest social media platforms and one of the most-visited websites. Users can share short text messages, images, and videos in Microblogging, short posts commonly known as "Tweet (social media), tweets" (officially "posts") and Like button, like other users' content. The platform also includes direct message, direct messaging, video and audio calling, bookmarks, lists, communities, a chatbot (Grok (chatbot), Grok), job search, and Spaces, a social audio feature. Users can vote on context added by approved users using the Community Notes feature. Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams (Internet entrepreneur), Evan Williams, and was launched in July of that year. Twitter grew quickly; by 2012 more than 100 million users produced 340 million daily tweets. Twitter, Inc., was based in San Francisco, C ... [...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 trends of tu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ho-Sung Pak
Ho-Sung Pak (; born November 6, 1967) is a South Korean-born American martial artist, actor, stuntman, and filmmaker. He is known for portraying Liu Kang in the ''Mortal Kombat'' video game series, and for his role as "Superstar" on the 1990s television series '' WMAC Masters''. He has also been a stunt performer, coordinator, and fight choreographer on numerous film and television productions. Early life and martial arts Pak was born in Seoul, South Korea and raised in Chicago, Illinois. He graduated from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign with a Master's of Business Administration in Engineering and Business. Pak began studying Taekwondo at the age of 8, and later studied kung fu ( Northern Praying Mantis, Shaolin, Tibetan White Crane), and wushu under Wu Bin. He was a Professional Karate Association (PKA) and North American Sports Karate Association (NASKA) forms champion, and won the 1991 Diamond Nationals Grand Championship in Mens' Forms. That same year, h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NetherRealm Studios
NetherRealm Studios is an American video game developer based in Chicago and owned by Warner Bros. Games. 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'' 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 and Newcastle development studios, they retained the Chicago studio, which became part of Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment (now Warner Bros. Games). The remaining studio was renamed WB Games Chicago several days later. On April 20, 2010, the studio was reincorporated as NetherRealm Studios, replacing WB Games Chicago. Nethe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tattoo Assassins
''Tattoo Assassins'' is an unreleased fighting game developed by Data East Pinball (currently known as Stern Pinball), the pinball division of Data East for release in arcades. A few prototypes were test-marketed in 1994, but the game was never officially released. Spearheaded by Bob Gale and Joe Kaminkow, ''Tattoo Assassins'' was designed to be Data East's answer to ''Mortal Kombat''. The game's development had a nine-month deadline, nearly coinciding with Sega's purchase of Data East's pinball division, which would not be met. It was nearly completed before being cancelled, though it still had gameplay and sound glitches. In 2025, exA-Arcadia announced plans to revive Tattoo Assassins with bug fixes & up to 4k resolution for its namesake platform under a deal with Data East's current rights holder G-Mode. Story and gameplay Mullah Abah, spiritual leader of a group known as the "Order of Colors", discovers a secret known as "Ink of Ghize", a tattoo ink-like fluid that can t ... [...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 spiritual 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 hop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mortal Kombat Trilogy
''Mortal Kombat Trilogy'' is a fighting game released by Midway Games, Midway in 1996 as the second and final update to ''Mortal Kombat 3'' (the first being ''Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3'') for the PlayStation (console), PlayStation, Nintendo 64, Sega Saturn and Personal computer, PCs. Further versions were also released for the Game.com and R-Zone. It features a similar basic gameplay system and the same story as ''Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3'', but adds characters and stages restored from ''Mortal Kombat (1992 video game), Mortal Kombat'' and ''Mortal Kombat II''. New additions to the game included the "Aggressor" bar. The Brutality (Mortal Kombat), Brutality mechanic was introduced with this installment. The game was met with positive to mixed reviews upon release. Gameplay ''Mortal Kombat Trilogy'' introduces the "Aggressor" bar, which fills as the combatants fight (twice as much if the opponent is blocking). Once the bar is filled, it grants the character fast movement and gre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
