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John Romero
Alfonso John Romero is an American and Irish video game developer. He co-founded id Software and designed their early games, including Wolfenstein 3D (1992), Doom (1993), Doom II (1994), Hexen (1995) and Quake (1996). His designs and development tools, along with programming techniques developed by the id programmer John Carmack, popularized the first-person shooter (FPS) genre. Romero is also cre…
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business · American video game designer (born 1967) · engineer · programmer · game programmer · computer scientist · businessperson · television actor · film actor · video game director · modder · video game developer · also John Romero, Alfonso John Romero, Romero
Born 28 October 1967 · Q280045
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2026· 3 entries
Published video “QUAKE'S 30TH BIRTHDAY: Romero plays Quake!!! (single-player)”.
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Published video “Making Catacomb 3-D”.
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2025· 8 entries
Published video “FPS FRIDAY: Romero plays The Séance of Blake Manor”.
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Published video “FPS FRIDAY: Romero plays The Outlast Trials”.
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Published video “FPS FRIDAY: Romero plays Mullet Madjack”.
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Published video “FPS FRIDAY: Romero plays Hexen”.
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Published video “FPS FRIDAY: Romero plays Trepang2”.
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Published video “FPS FRIDAY: Romero plays Battlefield 6 Beta pt 1”.
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Published video “FPS FRIDAY: Romero plays Battlefield 6 Open Beta pt 3”.
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Published video “FPS FRIDAY: Romero plays Battlefield 6 Open Beta pt 2”.
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2023· 2 entries
Romero acquired Irish citizenship, after living there for about eight years
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Romero confirmed in his autobiography, Doom Guy: Life in First Person, that while a demo had existed and was shown to publishers, no publishers expressed interest in funding the game after the Kickstarter cancellation, a
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2022· 2 entries
Romero gave a statement via Twitter on the subject of his hair, to coincide with the 120th anniversary of William Arthur Jones' "Indian haircut order" of 1902
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During a conversation with podcaster Lex Fridman, Carmack stated that, in hindsight, he regrets the way he dealt with the firing of Romero, citing immaturity and lack of understanding of corporate structure as the primar
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2017· 5 entries
Romero won the Bizkaia Award at the Fun & Serious Game Festival, which takes place in the Spanish city of Bilbao
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SIGIL in 2019, and Empire of Sin in 2020
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In 2017, Romero listed World of Warcraft and Minecraft as his favorite games of all time.
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Romero's favorite programming language as of 2017 is Lua.
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Romero listed World of Warcraft and Minecraft as his favorite games of all time
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2016· 1 entry
Romero and another former id employee, Adrian Carmack, announced a new FPS, Blackroom, but it was cancelled after failing to find a publisher
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2010· 1 entry
Gamesauce featured Romero on its cover and contained an in-depth interview with Romero written by Brenda Brathwaite
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2009· 1 entry
It was announced that Slipgate Ironworks was part of Gazillion Entertainment
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2006· 2 entries
John Romero announced a new FPS project for the CPL titled Severity for both consoles and PC
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John Romero and former co-worker Tom Hall guest hosted episode 53 of the podcast The Widget
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2005· 1 entry
Romero confirmed that he was working on a yet-to-be-announced MMOG at his newly opened development studio, Slipgate Ironworks
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2003· 2 entries
And she left the company in May while Red Faction development continued until October
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Romero joined Midway Games as the project lead on Gauntlet: Seven Sorrows (2005), and left shortly before its release
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2002· 1 entry
Romero cut his hair short in 2002 and donated it to Locks of Love.
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2001· 1 entry
Romero and Hall departed after the release of Hall's Anachronox game and the subsequent closing of the Dallas Ion office
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2000· 1 entry
During the development of Daikatana, Romero listed Ultima V: Warriors of Destiny, Super Mario Bros
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1997· 2 entries
“Leaving after finishing Quake was the right choice — leaving after finishing a hit game. I keep on good terms with the id guys and it was pretty easy because we”
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With a release date for the Christmas shopping season of that year
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1988· 1 entry
Steven, born in 1989, and Lillia Antoinette, born in 1998
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1983· 1 entry
And published in 1987, making Jumpster his earliest created, then published, game
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1967· 2 entries
Six weeks premature, in Colorado Springs, Colorado
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Born 1967-10-28.
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1902· 1 entry
“I wear my hair long as a proud Yaqui and Cherokee man, and will continue to do so until the day I die.”
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