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Florida Arcade and Pinball Collectors => Florida Arcade and Pinball Collectors => Topic started by: tufnel1530 on January 08, 2024, 05:29:51 PM

Title: John Romero game designer Doom Quake etc
Post by: tufnel1530 on January 08, 2024, 05:29:51 PM: Not sure if anyone else here is or was a DOOM or Quake fan.

John Romero (co-founder of ID, designer of DOOM and Quake etc) does zoom callsâ€¦. you can buy that and other stuff on romero.com

Sort of like a meet and greet at a show except he will actually hang out and talk for 15 min or however long you book.

Can ask him whatever you wantâ€¦ I did it for fun and would recommend it, worth the $$ IMO, not often you can shoot the shit with the designer of one of the all time great games.

I spent a crazy amount of time playing Doom and Quake multiplayer back in the day.. still a Slayer level player on Doom 2016 from time to time if you'd like me to chainsaw you sometime. :P
Title: Re: John Romero game designer Doom Quake etc
Post by: Marcel G on January 08, 2024, 09:44:00 PM: he was a big apple and C64 programmer back in the day. Definity paid his dues.
Title: Re: John Romero game designer Doom Quake etc
Post by: number six on January 09, 2024, 10:34:48 AM: Will he make me his bitch?
Title: Re: John Romero game designer Doom Quake etc
Post by: tufnel1530 on January 09, 2024, 11:25:53 AM: Quote from: number six on January 09, 2024, 10:34:48 AM
Will he make me his bitch?

Ha, nice... yah, he deeply regrets that attempt at "advertising" (as he should).

He's a good dude.. I would think for anyone who is a programmer or interested in game programming would be cool to talk to him.

I gave up IT work years ago so I couldn't go into the weeds with him on tech shit. Best I had was telling him how I spent more time getting Doom multiplayer to run on a Novell network than doing my actual job in 94.
Title: Re: John Romero game designer Doom Quake etc
Post by: RussG on January 11, 2024, 10:11:32 PM: Doom and Quake were incredible games growing up as a kid!!