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John Romero

Video Game Technology Pioneers

Alfonso John Romero, born on 28 October 1967, is an American and Irish video game developer who co-founded id Software and designed its early games, including Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Doom II, Hexen and Quake. His designs and development tools, along with the programming techniques of the id programmer John Carmack, popularized the first-person shooter genre, and he is credited with coining the multiplayer term deathmatch. Doom is listed here as a work.

Facts
Birth Year
1967 1
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Associated With

Video Games, Media Forms
Source Wikipedia: John Romero

Works Created

Doom, Landmark Works
Source Doom (1993 video game) (Wikipedia)
Quake, Landmark Works
Source Quake (video game) (Wikipedia)
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Same As

John Romero

Also in Computing Atlas: the same subject.

Nationality

Ireland

Also in Geography Atlas: the nationality of this subject.

United States

Also in Geography Atlas: the nationality of this subject.

Sources
1. Wikipedia: John Romero
  • Infobox: birth_date
    October 28, 1967
  • Associated With: Video Games, Lead sentence
    is an American and Irish video game developer
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Doom (1993 video game) (Wikipedia)
Works Created: Doom, Infobox: designer
Quote, Works Created: Doom, Infobox: designer
John Romero, Tom Hall, Sandy Petersen
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Quake (video game) (Wikipedia)
Works Created: Quake, Infobox: designer
Quote, Works Created: Quake, Infobox: designer
John Romero
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