Prolific game developer Ed Boon looks back on the series’ history and how they finally nailed down Jean-Claude Van Damme
as this huge cultural thing, but the first game was developed in ’91 by just four twenty-something dudes from Chicago. Did you feel like rock stars after that?
It certainly wasn’t like we set out to upset people and we did it, so “bucket list acquired.” [But] you give four guys in their 20s free rein to make whatever game they want, and they grew up on actions movies of the Seventies, Eighties? Guys are gonna do that. But when all the attention was happening, honestly, I immediately saw the parallels with comic books, movies, explicit lyrics in music.
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