john carmack
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Nobody Was More Excited To Play DOOM For The First Time Than id
5This old John Romero home movie is worth watching if you’ve not seen it before as it shows that id blew their own tiny little minds playing DOOM. It’s a 1993 home movie first posted by Romero about five years ago recording a studio tour, including 20 minutes of unfinished DOOM complete with the wrong…
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John Carmack’s Former Employer Says He Stole Their Tech
Doom co-creator and all-around genius John Carmack left the company he helped found last year. Now the people he used to work for say he took their technology with him.
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Yes, This Nazi-Killing Video Game Hero Was Of Jewish Descent
There’s been speculation for more than two decades that the hero of the iconic Wolfenstein first-person shooter games — B.J. Blazkowicz, the guy who you use to machine gun hordes of Nazis — was Jewish. But the game’s creators have long been coy about the character’s origins. Not so much anymore.
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Memories Of Doom, By John Romero And John Carmack
Twenty years ago, on December 10, 1993, John Carmack, John Romero and the rest of the team at upstart id Software unleashed a game called Doom upon the world. 20 years later, both men have written about their favourite memories of the game for you and all fans of Doom to read. Here they are,…