John Romero
American video game designer
- Audience58.8K
- Fame73.2
- Momentum2.3
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58.8K youtube followers
- Audience58.8K
- Fame73.2
- Momentum2.3
- Developers rank#10
- Wikipedia23.7K
Born 1967 · age 59United States
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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 credited with coining the multiplayer term "deathmatch".
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