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4 unusual facts about John Romero


2400 A.D.

The Commodore 64 port was in development by John Romero, but was shelved due to poor sales of the original Apple II version.

Full Pipe

After being discovered by Tom Hall and John Romero at the Russian Game Developer's Conference (KRI-2004), distribution rights were discussed, and a localized version of the game was released (via download only) over Steam in 2006.

Gamesauce

In 2010, the magazine published a widely cited interview with game designer John Romero, in which he apologized for a poorly received advertisement for his game Daikatana.

Matt Barton

The videos include reviews of retro games and interviews with game developers such as John Romero, Brian Fargo, Tim Cain and Chris Avellone.


Adrian Carmack

Adrian Carmack (born on May 5, 1969) is one of the four founders of id Software, along with Tom Hall, John Romero, and John D. Carmack (no relation).

Disk magazine

In the early 1990s, id Software founders John Carmack and John Romero had some of their earliest works published on disk magazines while working for Softdisk.

Ion Storm

(sometimes spelled ION Storm) was a Texas based developer of computer games founded by John Romero, Tom Hall (both former employees of id Software), Todd Porter, and Jerry O'Flaherty, under the slogan "Design is Law".

Masters of Doom

Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture is a book by David Kushner about id Software and its influence on popular culture, focusing chiefly on the company's co-founders John D. Carmack and John Romero.


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Catacomb 3-D

In the book Masters of Doom, author David Kushner asserts that the concept was discussed only briefly during a 1991 telephone conversation between Underworld developer Paul Neurath and John Romero.