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. He is best known as co-creator of the Killer Instinct series. Lobb was employed as Product Manager of Taxan USA between October 1988 and January 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, where he was Head of Product Development. The same year Lobb began working at Nintendo of America, where he worked on several games, including GoldenEye 007. Whilst at Nintendo Lobb worked as Head of Game Development for Nintendo of America. Shortly after the resignation of Minoru Arakawa from Nintendo in January 2002, Lobb left to join Microsoft Game Studios. Lobb commented in a 2007 interview with IGN that had Arakawa not left the company he would have been less likely to leave. 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. Despite this, Lobb stated that it "ended up having a nice impact on me, personally". Works Burai Fighter (NES, 1990) Low G Man (NES, 1990) G.I. Joe (NES, 1990) Rolling Thunder 2 (Genesis, 1991) - Hometek Team G.I. Joe: The Atlantis Factor (NES, 1992) - (uncredited) Kick Master (NES, 1992) Splatterhouse 2 (Genesis, 1992) - Special Thanks Wings 2: Aces High (SNES, 1992) - Producer Super Batter Up (SNES, 1992) - Special Thanks Splatterhouse 3 (Genesis, 1993) - Special Thanks Super Punch-Out!! (SNES, 1994) - Special Thanks Donkey Kong Country (SNES, 1994) - Special Thanks Killer Instinct (Arcade, 1994) - Game Design, Character Voices Killer Instinct 2 (Arcade, 1996) - Character Voices, Additional Design, Special Thanks Cruis'n USA (N64, 1996) - Special Thanks Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! (SNES, 1996) - Special Thanks Tetrisphere (N64, 1997) - Product Coordinator Donkey Kong Land III (GB, 1997) - Special Thanks GoldenEye 007 (N64, 1997) - NOA Treehouse Staff Diddy Kong Racing (N64, 1997) - NOA Thanks To Cruis'n World (N64, 1997) - NOA Producer Blast Corps (N64, 1997) - NOA Staff Banjo-Kazooie (N64, 1998) - NOA Big Thanks Star Wars Episode I: Racer (N64/GBC)