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John Romero

Cofounder, Id Software

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Online Game Pioneers at Work
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For 36 years, John Romero has been one of the video game industry's most accomplished developers. Credited on more than 100 titles, Romero has built nine studios, such as Id Software, where with John Carmack, Adrian Carmack, and Tom Hall, he pioneered the first-person shooter across Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Heretic, Hexen, and Quake.

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Ramsay, M. (2015). John Romero. In: Online Game Pioneers at Work. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-4186-7_10

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