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Index John Romero

Alfonso John Romero (born October 28, 1967) is an American director, designer, programmer and developer in the video game industry.[1]

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  1. 171 relations: Activision, Adrian Carmack, Age of Empires (video game), Anachronox, Apple II, Apple IIGS, Arcade video game, Area 51 (2005 video game), Art of Fighting, Arthur: The Quest for Excalibur, Atari Lynx, Atari, Inc., Atari, Inc. (1993–present), Atheism, Austin, Texas, Bethesda Game Studios, Bill Budge, Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless, Bio Menace, Blackroom (video game), Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold, Blake Stone: Planet Strike, Boss (video games), Brenda Romero, Bucharest, Capstone Software, Cartoon Network: Block Party, Catacomb (video game), Catacomb 3-D, Catacomb Abyss, Cherokee, Chex Quest, Chrono Trigger, Colorado Springs, Colorado, Commander Keen, Commander Keen in Aliens Ate My Babysitter, Commander Keen in Goodbye, Galaxy, Commander Keen in Invasion of the Vorticons, Commander Keen in Keen Dreams, Commodore 64, Corporate structure, Corridor 7: Alien Invasion, Crazy Climber, Cyberathlete Professional League, Daikatana, Dallas, Dangerous Dave, Dangerous Dave in the Haunted Mansion, Dark Castle, Death march (project management), ... Expand index (121 more) »

  2. American people who self-identify as being of Yaqui descent
  3. American video game directors
  4. Doom (franchise)
  5. Game Developers Conference Lifetime Achievement Award recipients
  6. Id Software people
  7. Origin Systems people
  8. Quake (series)
  9. Wolfenstein

Activision

Activision Publishing, Inc. is an American video game publisher based in Santa Monica, California.

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Adrian Carmack

Adrian Carmack (born May 5, 1969) is an American video game artist and one of four co-founders of id Software, along with Tom Hall, John Romero, and John Carmack (no relation). John Romero and Adrian Carmack are id Software people.

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Age of Empires (video game)

Age of Empires (AoE) is a real-time strategy video game based on history, developed by Ensemble Studios and published by Microsoft, and the first game in the Age of Empires series.

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Anachronox

Anachronox is a 2001 role-playing video game produced by Tom Hall and the Dallas Ion Storm games studio.

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Apple II

The Apple II series of microcomputers was initially designed by Steve Wozniak, manufactured by Apple Computer (now Apple Inc.), and launched in 1977 with the Apple II model that gave the series its name.

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Apple IIGS

The Apple IIGS (styled as II) is a 16-bit personal computer produced by Apple Computer.

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Arcade video game

An arcade video game takes player input from its controls, processes it through electrical or computerized components, and displays output to an electronic monitor or similar display.

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Area 51 (2005 video game)

Area 51 (stylized as Area-51) is a science fiction first-person shooter video game that was released in 2005.

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Art of Fighting

is a fighting game series originally released for the Neo Geo platform in the early 1990s.

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Arthur: The Quest for Excalibur

Arthur: The Quest for Excalibur is an illustrated interactive fiction video game written by Bob Bates and published by Infocom in 1989.

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Atari Lynx

The Atari Lynx is a 16-bit fourth-generation hand-held game console released by Atari Corporation in September 1989 in North America and 1990 in Europe and Japan.

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Atari, Inc.

Atari, Inc. was an American video game developer and home computer company founded in 1972 by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney.

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Atari, Inc. (1993–present)

Atari, Inc. is an American subsidiary and publishing arm of Atari SA.

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Atheism

Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities.

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Austin, Texas

Austin is the capital of the U.S. state of Texas and the county seat and most populous city of Travis County, with portions extending into Hays and Williamson counties.

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Bethesda Game Studios

Bethesda Game Studios is an American video game developer and a studio of ZeniMax Media based in Rockville, Maryland.

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Bill Budge

Bill Budge (born August 11, 1954) is a retired American video game programmer and designer. John Romero and Bill Budge are American video game designers and American video game programmers.

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Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless

Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless (Brew MP, Brew, Qualcomm BREW, or BREW) was an application development platform created by Qualcomm, originally for code division multiple access (CDMA) mobile phones, featuring third-party applications such as mobile games.

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Bio Menace

Bio Menace is a 1993 game developed and published by Apogee Software for MS-DOS.

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Blackroom (video game)

Blackroom was a planned first-person shooter game from the independent studio Night Work Games, created by former id Software developers John Romero and Adrian Carmack.

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Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold

Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold (also known as Blake Stone 3-D) is a first-person shooter for DOS created by JAM Productions and published by Apogee Software on December 5, 1993.

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Blake Stone: Planet Strike

Blake Stone: Planet Strike is a first-person shooter video game, the sequel to Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold, made by JAM Productions and released for DOS on October 28, 1994, by Apogee Software.

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Boss (video games)

In video games, a boss is a significantly powerful non-player character created as an opponent to players.

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Brenda Romero

Brenda Louise Romero (née Garno; born October 12, 1966), previously known as Brenda Brathwaite, is an American game designer and developer in the video game industry. John Romero and Brenda Romero are American video game designers.

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Bucharest

Bucharest (București) is the capital and largest city of Romania.

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Capstone Software

Capstone Software was a subsidiary of IntraCorp, a Miami-based computer and video game company.

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Cartoon Network: Block Party

Cartoon Network: Block Party is a 2004 arcade-style party game released for Game Boy Advance, developed by American studios Monkeystone Games and One Man Band LLC, and published by Majesco Entertainment.

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Catacomb (video game)

Catacomb is a 2-D top-down third-person shooter developed and published by Softdisk.

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Catacomb 3-D

Catacomb 3-D (also known as Catacomb 3-D: A New Dimension, Catacomb 3-D: The Descent, and Catacombs 3) is a first-person shooter video game, the third in the Catacomb series, the first of which to feature 3D computer graphics.

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Catacomb Abyss

Catacomb Abyss (also known as The Catacomb Abyss or The Catacomb Abyss 3-D) is a fantasy themed first-person shooter (FPS) game developed by Softdisk and released in November 1992 for DOS.

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Cherokee

The Cherokee (translit, or translit) people are one of the Indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands of the United States.

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Chex Quest

Chex Quest is a non-violent first-person shooter video game created in 1996 by Digital Café, originally intended as a Chex cereal promotion aimed at children aged 6–9 and up.

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Chrono Trigger

is a 1995 role-playing video game developed and published by Square.

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Colorado Springs, Colorado

Colorado Springs is a city in and the county seat of El Paso County, Colorado, United States.

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Commander Keen

Commander Keen is a series of side-scrolling platform video games developed primarily by id Software.

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Commander Keen in Aliens Ate My Babysitter

Commander Keen in Aliens Ate My Babysitter (stylized as Aliens Ate My Babysitter!) is a side-scrolling platform video game developed by id Software and published by FormGen in December 1991 for DOS.

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Commander Keen in Goodbye, Galaxy

Commander Keen in Goodbye, Galaxy (stylized as Goodbye, Galaxy!) is a two-part episodic side-scrolling platform video game developed by id Software and published by Apogee Software in 1991 for DOS.

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Commander Keen in Invasion of the Vorticons

Commander Keen in Invasion of the Vorticons is a three-part episodic side-scrolling platform video game developed by Ideas from the Deep (a precursor to id Software) and published by Apogee Software in 1990 for MS-DOS.

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Commander Keen in Keen Dreams

Commander Keen in Keen Dreams is a side-scrolling platform video game developed by id Software and published by Softdisk in 1991 for DOS.

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Commodore 64

The Commodore 64, also known as the C64, is an 8-bit home computer introduced in January 1982 by Commodore International (first shown at the Consumer Electronics Show, January 7–10, 1982, in Las Vegas).

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Corporate structure

A typical corporate structure consists of various departments that contribute to the company's overall mission and goals.

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Corridor 7: Alien Invasion

Corridor 7: Alien Invasion is a first-person shooter video game developed by Capstone Software and published by IntraCorp and GameTek.

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Crazy Climber

is a vertically scrolling video game produced by Nichibutsu (Nihon Bussan) and released for arcades in 1980.

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Cyberathlete Professional League

The Cyberathlete Professional League (CPL) was a professional sports tournament organization specializing in computer and console video game competitions.

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Daikatana

Daikatana is a first-person shooter game developed by Ion Storm.

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Dallas

Dallas is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the most populous city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the most populous metropolitan area in Texas and the fourth-most populous metropolitan area in the United States at 7.5 million people.

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Dangerous Dave

Dangerous Dave is a 1988 computer game by John Romero.

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Dangerous Dave in the Haunted Mansion

Dangerous Dave in the Haunted Mansion (also known as Dangerous Dave 2 and under the Froggman title, Rooms of Doom) is a 1991 sequel of the computer game Dangerous Dave.

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Dark Castle

Dark Castle is a 1986 platform game for Macintosh that was originally published by Silicon Beach Software.

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Death march (project management)

In project management, a death march is a project which participants believe to be destined for failure, or that requires a stretch of unsustainable overwork.

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Deathmatch (video games)

Deathmatch, also known as free-for-all, is a gameplay mode integrated into many shooter games, including first-person shooter (FPS), and real-time strategy (RTS) video games, where the goal is to kill (or "frag") the other players' characters as many times as possible.

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Digital Café

Digital Café was a new media company founded in early 1991 by Dean Hyers (creative director) and Mike Koenigs (technical director, foley, web development).

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Dominion: Storm Over Gift 3

Dominion: Storm Over Gift 3 is a military science fiction real-time strategy video game developed by Ion Storm, published by Eidos Interactive, and released for Microsoft Windows in 1998.

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Doom (1993 video game)

Doom is a first-person shooter game developed and published by id Software.

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Doom (franchise)

Doom (stylized as DOOM) is an American media franchise created by John Carmack, John Romero, Adrian Carmack, Kevin Cloud, and Tom Hall.

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Doom 64

Doom 64 is a first-person shooter game by Midway.

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Doom II

Doom II, also known as Doom II: Hell on Earth, is a first-person shooter game in the Doom franchise developed by id Software.

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Doom modding

Doom WAD is the default format of package files for the video game Doom and its sequel Doom II: Hell on Earth, that contain sprites, levels, and game data. John Romero and Doom modding are Doom (franchise).

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Duke Nukem 3D

Duke Nukem 3D is a first-person shooter video game developed by 3D Realms.

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DWANGO

The Dial-up Wide-Area Network Game Operation, better known by the acronym DWANGO, was an early online gaming service based in the United States. John Romero and DWANGO are Doom (franchise).

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Eidos Interactive

Eidos Interactive Limited (formerly Domark Limited) was a British video game publisher based in Wimbledon, London.

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ElDiario.es

elDiario.es is an online newspaper based in Spain.

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Empire of Sin (video game)

Empire of Sin is a strategy and role-playing video game developed by Romero Games and published by Paradox Interactive.

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Epyx

Epyx, Inc. was a video game developer and video game publisher active in the late 1970s and 1980s.

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Eurogamer

Eurogamer is a British video game journalism website launched in 1999 alongside parent company Gamer Network.

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Fatal Fury

Fatal Fury, known as in Japan, is a fighting game series developed by SNK, first released on the Neo Geo system.

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Fighting game

A fighting game is a genre of video game that involves combat between two or more characters.

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Final Doom

Final Doom is a first-person shooter video game developed by TeamTNT, and Dario and Milo Casali, and was released by id Software and distributed by GT Interactive in 1996.

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First-person shooter

A first-person shooter (FPS) is a video game centered on gun fighting and other weapon-based combat seen from a first-person perspective, with the player experiencing the action directly through the eyes of the main character.

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FormGen

FormGen Corporation was a developer of business software and publisher of video games based in Scottsdale, Arizona.

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Fun & Serious Game Festival

Fun & Serious Game Festival is a video game festival that takes place, in Bilbao, Spain, from late November to the beginning of December since its foundation in 2011.

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Future US

Future US, Inc. (formerly known as Imagine Media and The Future Network USA) is an American media corporation specializing in targeted magazines and websites in the video games, music, and technology markets.

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Game Developers Conference

The Game Developers Conference (GDC) is an annual conference for video game developers.

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GameHouse

GameHouse Inc. is an American casual game developer, publisher, digital video game distributor, and portal, based in Seattle, Washington, United States.

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Gamescom

Gamescom (stylized as gamescom) is a trade fair for video games held annually at the Koelnmesse in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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GameSpy

GameSpy was an American provider of online multiplayer and matchmaking middleware for video games founded in 1999 by Mark Surfas.

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Gauntlet: Seven Sorrows

Gauntlet: Seven Sorrows is the follow-up to Gauntlet Legends and Gauntlet Dark Legacy.

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Gunman Taco Truck

Gunman Taco Truck is a 2017 post-apocalyptic roguelike indie game created by Romero Games.

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Heretic (video game)

Heretic is a dark fantasy first-person shooter video game released in December 1994.

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Hexen: Beyond Heretic

Hexen: Beyond Heretic is a fantasy first-person shooter video game developed by Raven Software and published by id Software distributed through GT Interactive on October 30, 1995.

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Hovertank One

Hovertank One, also known under a variety of other names (Hovertank or Hovertank 3D), is a vehicular combat game developed by id Software and published by Softdisk in April 1991.

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Hyperspace Delivery Boy!

Hyperspace Delivery Boy! is a puzzle action game released for the Pocket PC on December 23, 2001.

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Hyperthymesia

Hyperthymesia, also known as hyperthymestic syndrome or highly superior autobiographical memory (HSAM), is a condition that leads people to be able to remember an abnormally large number of their life experiences in vivid detail.

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Id Software

id Software LLC is an American video game developer based in Richardson, Texas.

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Infocom

Infocom was an American software company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that produced numerous works of interactive fiction.

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Ion Storm

Ion Storm, L.P. was an American video game developer founded by John Romero and Tom Hall, both formerly of id Software.

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James Clavell's Shōgun

James Clavell's Shōgun is an interactive fiction video game written by Dave Lebling and published by Infocom in 1989.

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Java Platform, Micro Edition

Java Platform, Micro Edition or Java ME is a computing platform for development and deployment of portable code for embedded and mobile devices (micro-controllers, sensors, gateways, mobile phones, personal digital assistants, TV set-top boxes, printers).

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John Carmack

John D. Carmack II (born August 21, 1970) is an American computer programmer and video game developer. John Romero and John Carmack are American atheists, American video game designers, American video game programmers, game Developers Conference Lifetime Achievement Award recipients and id Software people.

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Journey (1989 video game)

Journey: The Quest Begins is an interactive fiction computer game designed by Marc Blank, with illustrations by Donald Langosy, and released by Infocom in 1989.

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KansasFest

KansasFest (also known as KFest) is an annual event for Apple II computer enthusiasts.

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Lex Fridman

Lex Fridman (born 15 August 1983) is a Russian-American computer scientist and podcaster.

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List of maze video games

Maze game is a video game genre description first used by journalists during the 1980s to describe any game in which the entire playing field is a maze.

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List of publications and periodicals devoted to the Apple II

The Apple II is an 8-bit home computer.

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Locks of Love

Locks of Love is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit charity that provides custom-made hair prosthetics to disadvantaged children up to the age of 21 who have suffered hair loss as a result of medical conditions, such as alopecia, burn trauma, and cancer treatment.

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Lolapps

Lolapps was a developer and publisher of social games on the Facebook platform.

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Looking Glass Studios

Looking Glass Studios, Inc. (formerly Blue Sky Productions and LookingGlass Technologies, Inc.) was an American video game developer based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Loot Drop

Loot Drop was a social video game studio that was started in San Mateo, California.

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Lua (programming language)

Lua is a lightweight, high-level, multi-paradigm programming language designed mainly for embedded use in applications.

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Majesco Entertainment

Majesco Entertainment Company (formerly Majesco Sales Inc.) is an American video game publisher and distributor based in Hazlet, New Jersey.

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Marvel Heroes (video game)

Marvel Heroes, also known as Marvel Heroes 2015, Marvel Heroes 2016 and Marvel Heroes Omega, was a free-to-play massively multiplayer online action role-playing video game developed by Gazillion Entertainment and Secret Identity Studios.

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Marvel Super Hero Squad Online

Marvel Super Hero Squad Online was a massively multiplayer free-to-play online game for younger audiences based on the Marvel Super Hero Squad, developed by American video game companies the Amazing Society and Gazillion Entertainment.

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Massively multiplayer online game

A massively multiplayer online game (MMOG or more commonly MMO) is an online video game with a large number of players to interact in the same online game world.

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Midway Games

Midway Games Inc., known previously as Midway Manufacturing and Bally Midway, and commonly known as simply Midway, was an American video game developer and publisher.

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Midway Studios Austin

Midway Studios Austin (formerly known as Inevitable Entertainment) was a video game developer established by former Acclaim Studios Austin employees, founded as Inevitable Entertainment in 2000 and acquired by Midway Games in 2004.

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Might and Magic II: Gates to Another World

Might and Magic II: Gates to Another World (also known as Might and Magic Book Two: Gates to Another World) is a role-playing video game developed and published by New World Computing in 1988.

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Minecraft

Minecraft is a 2011 sandbox game developed and published by Mojang Studios.

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MIT Press

The MIT Press is a university press affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Mobile device

A mobile device or handheld computer is a computer small enough to hold and operate in hand.

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Monkeystone Games

Monkeystone Games was a video game developer and publisher founded by John Romero, Tom Hall, Stevie Case, and Brian Moon.

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N-Gage (device)

The N-Gage is a smartphone combining features of a mobile phone and a handheld game system developed by Nokia, announced on 4 November 2002 and released on 7 October 2003.

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Namco

was a Japanese multinational video game and entertainment company, headquartered in Ōta, Tokyo.

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Nasir Gebelli

Nasir Gebelli (ناصر جبلی, also Nasser Gebelli, born 1957) is an Iranian-American programmer and video game designer usually credited in his games as simply Nasir. John Romero and Nasir Gebelli are American video game designers and American video game programmers.

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Nebulus (video game)

Nebulus is a platform game created by John M. Phillips and published by Hewson Consultants in the late 1980s for home computer systems.

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New World Computing

New World Computing, Inc. was an American video game developer and publisher founded in 1984 by Jon Van Caneghem, his wife, Michaela Van Caneghem, and Mark Caldwell.

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Next Generation (magazine)

Next Generation was a US video game magazine that was published by Imagine Media (now Future US).

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Nibble (magazine)

Nibble was a magazine for Apple II personal computer enthusiasts published from 1980 until 1992.

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Origin Systems

Origin Systems, Inc. was an American video game developer based in Austin, Texas.

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Pac-Man

originally called Puck Man in Japan, is a 1980 maze video game developed and released by Namco for arcades.

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Paganitzu

Paganitzu is a puzzle video game created by Keith Schuler and published by Apogee Software for IBM PC compatibles in 1991.

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Paul Neurath

Paul Neurath is a video game designer and creative director. John Romero and Paul Neurath are origin Systems people.

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Podcast

A podcast is a program made available in digital format for download over the Internet.

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Quake (video game)

Quake is a first-person shooter game developed by id Software and published by GT Interactive. John Romero and Quake (video game) are Quake (series).

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Quake modding

Based on Id Software's open stance towards game modifications, their ''Quake'' series became a popular subject for player mods beginning with Quake in 1996. John Romero and Quake modding are Quake (series).

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Random House

Random House is an imprint and publishing group of Penguin Random House.

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Ravenwood Fair

Ravenwood Fair was a social network game on Facebook designed by John Romero and developed by Lolapps.

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Red Faction

Red Faction is a series of shooter video games developed by Volition and owned by Plaion.

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Red Faction (video game)

Red Faction is a first-person shooter video game developed by Volition and published by THQ for PlayStation 2 and Microsoft Windows in 2001, and Macintosh platforms in 2001 and 2002.

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Rescue Rover

Rescue Rover is a puzzle video game that was developed by id Software and published by Softdisk in 1991.

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Retro Gamer

Retro Gamer is a British magazine, published worldwide, covering retro video games.

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Ritual Entertainment

Ritual Entertainment was an American video game developer established in 1996 by Robert Atkins, Mark Dochtermann, Jim Dosé, Richard 'Levelord' Gray, Michael Hadwin, Harry Miller, and Tom Mustaine.

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Rock Paper Shotgun

Rock Paper Shotgun is a British video game journalism website.

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Romero Games

Romero Games Ltd. is an Irish independent video game development studio that was established on 11 August 2015 by husband-and-wife team John Romero and Brenda Romero and is located in Galway, Ireland.

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Russian invasion of Ukraine

On 24 February 2022, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which started in 2014.

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San Francisco Bay Area

The San Francisco Bay Area, commonly known as the Bay Area, is a region of California surrounding and including the San Francisco Bay.

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Sandy Petersen

Carl Sanford Joslyn "Sandy" Petersen (born September 16, 1955) is an American game designer. John Romero and Sandy Petersen are American video game designers and id Software people.

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ScubaVenture: The Search for Pirate's Treasure

ScubaVenture: The Search for Pirate's Treasure is a 1993 action video game.

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Shadow Knights

Shadow Knights - The Shogun of Death, also known as Budo - The Art of Ninja Combat, is a platform game created by id Software and published by Softdisk in 1991.

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ShadowCaster

ShadowCaster is a first-person role-playing video game developed by Raven Software.

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Shigeru Miyamoto

is a Japanese video game designer, producer and game director at Nintendo, where he serves as one of its representative directors as an executive since 2002. John Romero and Shigeru Miyamoto are game Developers Conference Lifetime Achievement Award recipients.

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Shoot 'em up

Shoot 'em ups (also known as shmups or STGs) are a sub-genre of action games.

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Shooter game

Shooter video games or shooters are a subgenre of action video games where the focus is on the defeat of the character's enemies using ranged weapons given to the player.

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Shreveport, Louisiana

Shreveport is a city in the U.S. state of Louisiana.

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Sigil (mod)

Sigil (stylized as SIGIL) is the unofficial fifth episode of the 1993 video game ''Doom''.

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Sirius Software

Sirius Software was a California-based publisher of video games for the Apple II, Atari 8-bit computers, Commodore 64, and VIC-20.

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Slordax: The Unknown Enemy

Slordax: The Unknown Enemy is a vertically scrolling shooter for MS-DOS, published by the software company Softdisk in 1991.

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Softdisk

Softdisk was a software and Internet company based in Shreveport, Louisiana.

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Space Invaders

is a 1978 shoot 'em up arcade video game, developed and released by Taito in Japan and licensed to Midway Manufacturing for overseas distribution.

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Space Rogue

Space Rogue is a space flight simulation video game developed by Origin Systems and published by Origin Systems, Wave Brain, and Night Dive Studios.

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Stevie Case

Stevana "Stevie" Case (born 1976–1977) is an American businesswoman. John Romero and Stevie Case are American video game designers.

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Street Fighter II

is a 2D fighting game developed by Capcom and originally released for arcades in 1991.

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Super 3D Noah's Ark

Super 3D Noah's Ark is a non-violent Christian first-person shooter developed and published by Wisdom Tree for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) in 1994 and MS-DOS in 1995.

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Super Mario

(also known as and) is a platform game series created by Nintendo starring their mascot, Mario.

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Super Mario Bros. 3

Super Mario Bros.

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Texas Monthly

Texas Monthly (stylized as TexasMonthly) is a monthly American magazine headquartered in Downtown Austin, Texas.

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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, informally known as the LDS Church or Mormon Church, is the largest Latter Day Saint denomination, tracing its roots to its founding by Joseph Smith during the Second Great Awakening.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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THQ

THQ Inc. was an American video game company based in Agoura Hills, California.

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Tom Hall

Tom Hall (born September 2, 1964) is an American game designer best known for his work with id Software on titles such as Doom, Wolfenstein 3D and Commander Keen. John Romero and Tom Hall are American video game designers and id Software people.

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Tucson, Arizona

Tucson (Cuk Ṣon; Tucsón) is a city in and the county seat of Pima County, Arizona, United States, and is home to the University of Arizona.

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Type-in program

A type-in program or type-in listing was computer source code printed in a home computer magazine or book.

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Ultima V: Warriors of Destiny

Ultima V: Warriors of Destiny is the fifth entry in the role-playing video game series Ultima released in March 1988.

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UpTime (disk magazine)

UpTime was a group of disk magazines for a variety of personal computing platforms that were published in the 1980s.

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Virtua Fighter

is a series of fighting games created by Sega AM2 and designer Yu Suzuki.

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Wisdom Tree

Wisdom Tree, Inc. is an American developer of Christian video games.

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Wolfenstein 3D

Wolfenstein 3D is a first-person shooter video game developed by id Software and published by Apogee Software and FormGen. John Romero and Wolfenstein 3D are Wolfenstein.

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World of Warcraft

World of Warcraft (WoW) is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) released in 2004 by Blizzard Entertainment.

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Yaqui

The Yaqui, Hiaki, or Yoeme, are an Indigenous people of Mexico and Native American tribe, who speak the Yaqui language, a Uto-Aztecan language.

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Zork Zero

Zork Zero: The Revenge of Megaboz is an interactive fiction video game, written by Steve Meretzky over nearly 18 months and published by Infocom in 1988.

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2400 A.D.

2400 A.D. is a role-playing video game designed by Chuck Bueche and published by Origin Systems in 1988.

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3D Realms

3D Realms Entertainment ApS is a video game publisher based in Aalborg, Denmark.

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See also

American people who self-identify as being of Yaqui descent

American video game directors

Doom (franchise)

Game Developers Conference Lifetime Achievement Award recipients

Id Software people

Origin Systems people

Quake (series)

Wolfenstein

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Romero

Also known as Alfonso John Romero, Alfonso Romero, Bongo's Bash, Rome.ro, Romero, John.

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