- Born
- Birth nameDaniel Warner Forden
- Dan Forden has been a professional sound designer for over 15 years. He has made tunes for Midway and William games, like Artic Thunder, Mortal Kombat, Tao Feng and The Grid.
Dan Forden graduated from TIMARA University of Chicago, Illinois in 1985 with degree in music/studio operation. From there, Forden started small working with pinball design teams with tunes. He made tunes for several Williams/Midway Bally pinball games. In 1992, Forden and some of the Midway pinball crew graduated from making mini scroll games and pinball machines to realistic, never-seen before combat games.
Composition for the Mortal Kombat series, Dan got ideas by examining the background from the design team. He had a keyboard hooked to a computer with a modulator device. From there he'd make fascinating melodic midi music with his special custom sounds and samples from CDs.
Dan Forden continues his career as a freelancing musician and sound artist.
- IMDb mini biography by: CivicV8
- SpouseAnn Mazza(August 20, 1994 - present) (2 children)
- Best known as the "Toasty" guy that pops out of the corner of the screen in the Mortal Kombat video games.
- Married with a daughter, Isabel, and a son Max,.
- Invented the popular "Toasty" quote while he and the crew were testing the Mortal Kombat II development. The crew then added it to the game.
- Manager of the sound department at Midway.
- Stopped appearing from the bottom of the screen after Mortal Kombat Trilogy because his 2D image didn't suite the 3D graphics in the next Mortal Kombat release. However, "Toasty" is heard again in The Grid and Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance.
- "Mortal Kombat Deception is, by far, the most ambitious Mortal Kombat game we've ever done".
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