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John Romero is an American engineer, programmer, game programmer, and computer scientist. Born in Colorado Springs, Colorado, in 1967, he has worked for Softdisk and id Software. His notable work includes Dangerous Dave.
Romero is also an author with five works, including How to beat stress, Daikatana, Doom Guy, Casino marketing, and Secrets of casino marketing. Additionally, he has acted in the film industry. He is married to Brenda Romero.
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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
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
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
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- Commons category
- John Romero
- date of birth
- 1967-10-28
- social media followers
- 50300
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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.
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