Ken Lobb

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Ken Lobb
BornDecember 10, 1960[1]
Washington, United States[2]
Other namesKAL, K. Lobb, Ken Lobb
OccupationVideo game designer, creative director, voice actor
Years active1989-present

Kenneth Alan Lobb (also credited as Ken Lobb, KAL, and K. Lobb) is an American video game designer formerly employed by Taxan USA Corp., Namco Hometek, and Nintendo of America, and currently employed by Xbox Game Studios as Creative Director.[3] He is best known as co-creator of the Killer Instinct series.[4]

Lobb was employed as Product Manager of Taxan USA between 1989 and 1991, where he worked alongside Japanese developer KID on various NES games made for the U.S. market. After Taxan closed down in early 1991, Lobb was then employed by Namco Hometek until 1993.[5] The same year[6] Lobb began working at Nintendo of America, where he worked on several games, including GoldenEye 007.[7] Lobb has been employed by Microsoft Game Studios since 2002.[8]

A weapon in GoldenEye 007, the Klobb, was named after him due to last-minute copyright issues, and became notorious amongst gamers for its lackluster abilities.[9] Despite this, Lobb stated that it "ended up having a nice impact on me, personally".[10]

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  1. ^ https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0516441/
  2. ^ https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0516441/
  3. ^ Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: Killer Instinct - 720p Gameplay Interview With Ken Lobb - E3 2013. YouTube.
  4. ^ "An Audience With: Ken Lobb". Edge Online. Retrieved 2014-06-21.
  5. ^ Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: Ken Lobb - Interview ( circa 2007 ) - Courtesy of IGN.com - Part . 1 of 3. YouTube.
  6. ^ Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: How Did You Get Into The Games Industry? - Ken Lobb. YouTube.
  7. ^ "IGN review of Goldeneye007". Retrieved 2009-07-16.
  8. ^ https://www.linkedin.com/in/ken-lobb-28bb413
  9. ^ Edge Staff (2014-04-04). "The story of GoldenEye 007's most notorious gun, The Klobb – and its design secret". Edge. Archived from the original on 2014-04-14. Retrieved 2020-10-27.
  10. ^ Brian (2017-04-02). "Former Nintendo exec Ken Lobb on GoldenEye 007's rail shooter origins, Klobb gun, more". Nintendo Everything. Retrieved 2020-11-24.
  11. ^ "Chief Thunder Voice - Killer Instinct (2013) (Video Game)". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved 13 June 2021. A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its opening and/or closing credits and/or other reliable sources of information.CS1 maint: postscript (link)

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