Previously he worked at Midway Games for more than 15 years. He graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and then worked in the pinball department at Williams Entertainment. In addition to the Mortal Kombat series, Boon has worked on several other video games such as Total Carnage, The Grid, Batman: Arkham City Lockdown, Injustice: Gods Among Us, Batman: Arkham Origins, and Injustice 2. Boon has worked as a designer, programmer, voice artist, executive producer, and creative director. He provided the voice of Scorpion in the films Mortal Kombat in 1995 and Mortal Kombat Annihilation in 1997.