Dan Forden

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Dan Forden saying "Toasty!" in Mortal Kombat II.

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.

==Discography==

1 Forden's Works
- 1.1 Pinball
- 1.2 Video games
  - 1.2.1 Midway
  - 1.2.2 Williams
2 Trivia
3 External link

[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

The Simpsons Pinball Party (with Chris Granner)

[edit] Video games

[edit] Midway

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.