Niemeyer, Paul E.

Niemeyer, Paul E.

Paul E. Niemeyer is probably best known for being the artist of the first Mortal Kombat the game cabinet, control panel, and header, including illustrating the Mortal Kombat logo. Other work includes TRON, Tapper, Satan's Hollow, Spy Hunter, Wacko, Super PacMan, PacMan Plus, Professor PacMan, Demolition Man Pinball, sculpts for the American Pinball game "Legends of Valhalla". Paul also worked in the big ad agencies on movie licenses like Jurassic Park 2, Men in Black, Star Trek 6, Little Mermaid, Hercules, Star Wars Phantom Menace, Pirates of the Caribbean, and many more. From 2000-2005 he was part owner of Eagle Games Board Game company, which is now Eagle-Gryphon Games. Paul designed and illustrated many games in Europe and the US, including the very popular "Through the Ages" and the hugely successful PopCap games, Peggle and Bejeweled 2. Paul owned and ran ABYSS Haunted House, a top 10 haunted attraction in the Chicagoland area, from 2006-2014 and has recently done packaging artwork on 7 Nintendo Switch Games (Super Blood Hockey, Pigeon Dev Games Bundle, Demons Tier +, A Robot Named FIGHT, Cathedral, and Rack 'n Ruin, Super Dungeon Maker) for Premium Edition Games.