Game Designer Profile: John Romero

March 13, 2008

Gamespy names Doom #1 game of all time

Filed under: websites — zmerc @ 7:08 pm

gamespy.com, named Doom as #1 of its top 50 games of all time it also named quake as the seventh best franchise of all time and the original Quake game was named #5 out of the top 50 games of all time.

Gamespy top 50

Wikipedia’s Quake page

Filed under: websites — zmerc @ 6:33 pm

Probably Romero’s secound most influencial game is Quake. The Wikipedia page has some great information about the games development and influence especially how it was one of the early games to really take advantage of the internet and also suceed with internet play.

Wikipedia-Quake

Doom’s wikipedia page

Filed under: websites — zmerc @ 6:22 pm

Since it is one of Romero’s best known games here is the wikipedia page for Doom

Wikipedia-Doom

The page has some excellent information of the technology used to build Doom, its controversies, and its cultural influence.

Verbosity Interview

Filed under: interviews — zmerc @ 5:47 pm

Another undated interview, from pre Daikantana release, from verbosity.wiw.org.

The article goes more into Romero’s personal chracter and likes rather than past achievements

interview here

ESREALITY interview

Filed under: interviews — zmerc @ 5:39 pm

Here’s another 2003 esreality.com interview with Jhon Romero that focuses on his contributions to “deathmatch” games like Quake and Doom II

Interview

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