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OverviewAI-generated
John Romero, born on 28 October 1967 in Colorado Springs, is an American engineer, programmer, game programmer and computer scientist who holds United States citizenship. He has been employed by Softdisk and id Software, where his credited work includes Dangerous Dave, Daikatana and the character Doom Guy. He is married to Brenda Romero, and his family name is Romero and his given name John.
Synthesized by Vinony from 19 facts across 5 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, TMDb, Crossref, Wikiquote. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 5
Top works
- How to beat stress
- Daikatana
- Doom Guy
- Casino marketing
- Secrets of casino marketing
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Acting · Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
Known for
- Game On — Self2025
- FPS: First Person Shooter — Self2023
- First Person Shooter — self2023
- High Score — Self2020
- The Artists: The Pioneers Behind the Pixels — Self2018
- How Videogames Changed the World — Self2013
- Get Lamp — Self2010
- Code Monkeys — John Romero (voice)2007
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1967
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 190
- Total plays
- 383
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/John+Romero">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple
· 1996 · cited 204,615x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,656x
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,917x
- Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment
· 2007 · cited 35,587x
- The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)
· 1992 · cited 29,134x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “Doom 2 is just such a bigger, badder, better version of Doom”
- “John Romero's About to Make You His Bitch.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Born
- Alfonso John Romero , ( 1967-10-28 ) October 28, 1967 (age 58) , Colorado Springs, Colorado , U.S.
- Occupations
- Video game designer, programmer
- Known for
- id Software , Ion Storm , Romero Games
- Notable work
- Commander Keen series Wolfenstein 3D Doom series Quake Daikatana
- Partner
- Stevie Case (1998–2003)
- Website
- romero .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- John
- Family name
- Romero
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Colorado Springs
- Spouse
- Brenda Romero
- Employer
- id Software
- Notable work
- Dangerous Dave
- Official website
- rome.ro
- Image
- John Romero - GDC 2022 (cropped).jpg
Show 3 more facts
- Commons category
- John Romero
- date of birth
- 1967-10-28
- social media followers
- 50300
Sources (2)
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Alfonso John Romero (born October 28, 1967) 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".
Following disputes with Carmack, Romero was fired from id in 1996. He co-founded a new studio, Ion Storm, and directed the FPS Daikatana (2000), which was a critical and commercial failure. Romero departed Ion Storm in 2001. In July 2001, he and another former id employee, Tom Hall, founded Monkeystone Games to develop games for mobile devices.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “John Romero” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.