John Romero
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Romero in 2012
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| Born |
Alfonso John Romero October 28, 1967 Colorado Springs, Colorado, U.S. |
| Occupation | Video game designer, video game programmer |
| Spouse(s) |
Kelly Mitchell (m. 1987; div. 1989) Elizabeth McCall (m. 1990; div. 1998) Raluca Pleşca (m. 2004; div. 2011) Brenda Garno (m. 2012) |
| Partner(s) | Stevie Case (1998–2003) |
| Children | 3 |
Alfonso John Romero (born October 28, 1967) is an American director, designer, programmer, and developer in the video game industry. He is best known as a co-founder of id Software and designer for many of their games, including Wolfenstein 3D, Dangerous Dave, Hexen, Doom and Quake. His game designs and development tools, along with new programming techniques created and implemented by id Software's lead programmer John Carmack, led to a mass popularization of the first-person shooter video game genre in the 1990s. He is credited with coining the multiplayer term "deathmatch".
Among his early influences, he credited Namco's maze chase arcade game Pac-Man (1980) as the title that had the biggest influence on his career. He also cited Nasir Gebelli (Sirius Software and Squaresoft) as his favorite programmer and a major inspiration, citing the influence of his fast 3D programming work for Apple II games, such as the shooters Horizon V (1981) and Zenith (1982), on his later work at id Software. Other influences he cited include programmer Bill Budge,Shigeru Miyamoto's Super Mario games, and fighting games such as Street Fighter II, Fatal Fury, Art of Fighting, and Virtua Fighter.
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