Romero's popular Video Games photos

In Spear of Destiny (1992), I put a secret screen in the game that could only be reached by a secret keypress in the menu system. The original screen (320x200) is in the upper right-hand co ...

2009-11-12T15:39:25Z

Romero
In Spear of Destiny (1992), I put a secret screen in the game that could only be reached by a secret keypress in the menu system. The original screen (320x200) is in the upper right-hand co ...

This picture was taken during DOOM development in 1993. Adrian's in his room (which he shared with Kevin Cloud) and you can see here that he was modeling the Baron of Hell out of clay himse ...

2009-11-12T15:38:37Z

Romero
This picture was taken during DOOM development in 1993. Adrian's in his room (which he shared with Kevin Cloud) and you can see here that he was modeling the Baron of Hell out of clay himse ...

Here's Greg's model of the Revenant for DOOM II. He's a favorite of mine because I just LOVE the punching sound - it makes me laugh every time! Yes, I made sure the sound made me laugh. :)

2009-11-12T15:38:37Z

Romero
Here's Greg's model of the Revenant for DOOM II. He's a favorite of mine because I just LOVE the punching sound - it makes me laugh every time! Yes, I made sure the sound made me laugh. :)

Yes, this is the clay model of the DoomGuy that Adriani created! One pose, folks, or it breaks into a silly mess.

2009-11-12T15:38:37Z

Romero
Yes, this is the clay model of the DoomGuy that Adriani created! One pose, folks, or it breaks into a silly mess.

This is a picture of the Shreveport lakehouse that id Software started in. Tom took this pic of John Carmack and myself while we were working on the Super Mario 3 demo for Nintendo - so thi ...

2009-11-12T15:38:37Z

Romero
This is a picture of the Shreveport lakehouse that id Software started in. Tom took this pic of John Carmack and myself while we were working on the Super Mario 3 demo for Nintendo - so thi ...

Here's a closeup of Greg's latex and metal model of the Spiderdemon.

2009-11-12T15:38:37Z

Romero
Here's a closeup of Greg's latex and metal model of the Spiderdemon.

This is my wife Raluca's favorite monster in DOOM II - the Mancubus. This is the model that Greg Punchatz created and we used a video camera to scan it in (8 rotations), clean up the pixels ...

2009-11-12T15:38:37Z

Romero
This is my wife Raluca's favorite monster in DOOM II - the Mancubus. This is the model that Greg Punchatz created and we used a video camera to scan it in (8 rotations), clean up the pixels ...

Both Shawn Green and myself are big heavy metal maniacs! During DOOM we used to listen to lots of Alice in Chains, Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Dokken, Metallica, etc. and here we are going ...

2009-11-12T15:38:37Z

Romero
Both Shawn Green and myself are big heavy metal maniacs! During DOOM we used to listen to lots of Alice in Chains, Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Dokken, Metallica, etc. and here we are going ...

This picture was taken during DOOM development in 1993. This is the DOOM chainsaw sitting in a bucket, ready to be scanned by Kevin to create the image of the chainsaw in DOOM. The reason it ...

2009-11-12T15:38:37Z

Romero
This picture was taken during DOOM development in 1993. This is the DOOM chainsaw sitting in a bucket, ready to be scanned by Kevin to create the image of the chainsaw in DOOM. The reason it ...

This is the great Bobby Prince, our music composer between 1991-1994. He did the music for Commander Keen 4, 5, 6, Catacomb 3D, Wolfenstein 3D, Spear of Destiny, DOOM, DOOM II. In this pic ...

2009-11-12T15:38:37Z

Romero
This is the great Bobby Prince, our music composer between 1991-1994. He did the music for Commander Keen 4, 5, 6, Catacomb 3D, Wolfenstein 3D, Spear of Destiny, DOOM, DOOM II. In this pic ...

PC Gamer, May 2003, Most Controversial Game article. Not bad for a 10 year old game!

2009-11-12T15:39:25Z

Romero
PC Gamer, May 2003, Most Controversial Game article. Not bad for a 10 year old game!

This is me, Kevin and Adrian posing for a pic during DOOM II development. I'm always looking nutty in pics - cause i'm nutty!

2009-11-12T15:38:37Z

Romero
This is me, Kevin and Adrian posing for a pic during DOOM II development. I'm always looking nutty in pics - cause i'm nutty!

Here are some Asian versions of DOOM and Wolfenstein. Since piracy was so insanely rampant over there, we sold the rights to sell copies to the biggest pirates for $1 per copy - that way we ...

2009-11-12T15:38:37Z

Romero
Here are some Asian versions of DOOM and Wolfenstein. Since piracy was so insanely rampant over there, we sold the rights to sell copies to the biggest pirates for $1 per copy - that way we ...

Romero's photo

2009-06-06T11:40:42Z

Romero

This picture was taken during DOOM development in 1993. Tom's busy working on a map in my map editor, DoomEd, but don't worry - you won't be able to make out anything on the screen! Tom sta ...

2009-11-12T15:38:37Z

Romero
This picture was taken during DOOM development in 1993. Tom's busy working on a map in my map editor, DoomEd, but don't worry - you won't be able to make out anything on the screen! Tom sta ...

It's the "Bad Ad", the one that got a generation of gamers and journalists hating me! Suck it down.

2009-11-12T15:39:25Z

Romero
It's the "Bad Ad", the one that got a generation of gamers and journalists hating me! Suck it down.

The is one of the "legendary" letters that Scott Miller (CEO of 3D Realms; back then Apogee Software) wrote me trying to get me to contact him so we could work together. You'll see he change ...

2009-09-01T20:10:03Z

Romero
The is one of the "legendary" letters that Scott Miller (CEO of 3D Realms; back then Apogee Software) wrote me trying to get me to contact him so we could work together. You'll see he change ...

There it is - all in blue! Uhhmmmmm.....it looks like a prison...

2009-08-11T21:32:46Z

Romero
There it is - all in blue! Uhhmmmmm.....it looks like a prison...

The view of Softdisk's roof then the street going down to the lower Softdisk parking lot entrance.

2009-08-11T21:28:18Z

Romero
The view of Softdisk's roof then the street going down to the lower Softdisk parking lot entrance.

This is the roof of Softdisk where everyone parked. The tall building to the right is the Fairmont Apartments.

2009-08-11T21:57:25Z

Romero
This is the roof of Softdisk where everyone parked. The tall building to the right is the Fairmont Apartments.

Left to right: Tom Hall, Jay Wilbur, John Romero This picture was taken just after the Summer Shareware Seminar awards in 1992. We got awards for two categories that both related to our s ...

2009-11-12T15:38:37Z

Romero
Left to right: Tom Hall, Jay Wilbur, John Romero This picture was taken just after the Summer Shareware Seminar awards in 1992. We got awards for two categories that both related to our s ...

Here's my old id Software business card. Since I did so many things (biz stuff, packaging guidance, exec producing, coding, level design, game design, audio, product mastering, etc.) I just ...

2009-07-25T06:47:38Z

Romero
Here's my old id Software business card. Since I did so many things (biz stuff, packaging guidance, exec producing, coding, level design, game design, audio, product mastering, etc.) I just ...

DOOM novel published in Hungarian. As far as I know, this is not related to the DOOM novels by Dafyyd ab Hugh.

2009-10-09T04:12:30Z

Romero
DOOM novel published in Hungarian. As far as I know, this is not related to the DOOM novels by Dafyyd ab Hugh.

Evidently they made a series of comics after the game came out! IT WAS JUST THAT POWERFUL A CONCEPT!

2009-07-24T16:34:31Z

Romero
Evidently they made a series of comics after the game came out! IT WAS JUST THAT POWERFUL A CONCEPT!

Nice article about Warren's Deus Ex. Most people don't know this but Warren named the game Deus Ex so most people would mispronounce it "Do Sex". Deus Ex is short for Deus Ex Machina - T ...

2009-11-12T15:39:25Z

Romero
Nice article about Warren's Deus Ex. Most people don't know this but Warren named the game Deus Ex so most people would mispronounce it "Do Sex". Deus Ex is short for Deus Ex Machina - T ...

Here's another id lakehouse pic - this is me and Jay Wilbur in the swimming pool in the backyard. Why was I wearing sunglasses in the pool? They were prescription and I ran out of contact ...

2009-11-12T15:39:25Z

Romero
Here's another id lakehouse pic - this is me and Jay Wilbur in the swimming pool in the backyard. Why was I wearing sunglasses in the pool? They were prescription and I ran out of contact ...

This is the original DOOM 2 box painting by Julie Bell. I loved the pose but the Cyberdemon looks like a bull. We chose to work with BROM for the final cover that you see on the DOOM 2 box ...

2008-09-08T16:24:49Z

Romero
This is the original DOOM 2 box painting by Julie Bell. I loved the pose but the Cyberdemon looks like a bull. We chose to work with BROM for the final cover that you see on the DOOM 2 box ...

We had a mini Softdisk reunion in the summer of 2003 at Tom Hall's house. From left to right are: Tom, Rhonda Reimers, Lane Roathe, me, Jim Weiler, Carolyn Drain, Fender Tucker.

2009-07-25T05:50:06Z

Romero
We had a mini Softdisk reunion in the summer of 2003 at Tom Hall's house. From left to right are: Tom, Rhonda Reimers, Lane Roathe, me, Jim Weiler, Carolyn Drain, Fender Tucker.

Computer Gaming World, October 2005, back page article. I still don't understand what the article is supposed to be saying... I'll react to the inaccuracies in the article right here: ...

2009-11-12T15:39:25Z

Romero
Computer Gaming World, October 2005, back page article. I still don't understand what the article is supposed to be saying... I'll react to the inaccuracies in the article right here: ...

This is an old Penny Arcade from 1998

2009-01-08T21:02:47Z

Romero
This is an old Penny Arcade from 1998

Another view of 7450 Lakeshore Drive in Shreveport, LA. The house was right on Cross Lake and had a moor and boat dock off the back. There's a huge backyard as well.

2009-08-11T21:45:03Z

Romero
Another view of 7450 Lakeshore Drive in Shreveport, LA. The house was right on Cross Lake and had a moor and boat dock off the back. There's a huge backyard as well.

Here's a view of Cross Lake and the island we used to go kneeboarding around.

2009-08-11T22:51:12Z

Romero
Here's a view of Cross Lake and the island we used to go kneeboarding around.

This was the front of my Midway business card which I made myself because I didn't like the normal boring card design they had. This one's more fun!

2009-07-25T06:38:49Z

Romero
This was the front of my Midway business card which I made myself because I didn't like the normal boring card design they had. This one's more fun!

Here's my Ion Storm business card. All of Ion's corporate identity, game packaging for ALL our games, etc. was designed by Sasha Shor - the same woman who designed the Quake logo, font, pac ...

2009-07-25T07:14:41Z

Romero
Here's my Ion Storm business card. All of Ion's corporate identity, game packaging for ALL our games, etc. was designed by Sasha Shor - the same woman who designed the Quake logo, font, pac ...

I love reading these old ads. They are overwhelmingly lameass.

2009-07-23T18:02:30Z

Romero
I love reading these old ads. They are overwhelmingly lameass.

Some of my debugging notes and also the code to check for the exit door where you have to type in the correct word from the letters you've gathered.

2009-07-23T18:48:15Z

Romero
Some of my debugging notes and also the code to check for the exit door where you have to type in the correct word from the letters you've gathered.

This is the cover of the Gamer's Edge-published PC version of Dangerous Dave II. The artist's name is Ronnie Sapp, The Sappster!

2009-02-22T01:06:18Z

Romero
This is the cover of the Gamer's Edge-published PC version of Dangerous Dave II. The artist's name is Ronnie Sapp, The Sappster!

I actually wrote Scout Search in 1983 soon after learning 6502 assembler. It was originally titled Ricochet but I came up with a little story and changed the name. You can see a little of ...

2009-07-14T23:36:29Z

Romero
I actually wrote Scout Search in 1983 soon after learning 6502 assembler. It was originally titled Ricochet but I came up with a little story and changed the name. You can see a little of ...

This is a fake advertisement I drew for one of the earliest games I've created called Dodge 'Em. Notice that it pokes fun at itself. Notice that.

2009-07-13T04:59:50Z

Romero
This is a fake advertisement I drew for one of the earliest games I've created called Dodge 'Em. Notice that it pokes fun at itself. Notice that.

Here's the letter Scott wrote me just after we got in touch over the phone about possibly doing some work with him. You can see that I told him they don't go through personal mail and it wa ...

2009-07-12T18:12:23Z

Romero
Here's the letter Scott wrote me just after we got in touch over the phone about possibly doing some work with him. You can see that I told him they don't go through personal mail and it wa ...

This is a view of the complex from the street. My apartment was visible from this location.....don't look for it too hard - it looks just like all the others. And is a piece of shit.

2009-07-01T20:08:01Z

Romero
This is a view of the complex from the street. My apartment was visible from this location.....don't look for it too hard - it looks just like all the others. And is a piece of shit.

The back of the invitation.

2009-07-08T01:04:59Z

Romero
The back of the invitation.

This is the lapel button that attendees had to wear to get in. The security was very, very tight but luckily everyone got in.

2009-07-25T06:44:52Z

Romero
This is the lapel button that attendees had to wear to get in. The security was very, very tight but luckily everyone got in.

I organized the Apple II Reunion of 2004 at the house of John Garcia (owner of Novalogic, coder of Zaxxon on the Apple II) and invited many Apple II alumni. Steve Wozniak graced us with his ...

2009-07-25T06:15:07Z

Romero
I organized the Apple II Reunion of 2004 at the house of John Garcia (owner of Novalogic, coder of Zaxxon on the Apple II) and invited many Apple II alumni. Steve Wozniak graced us with his ...

I had lunch with Warren Robinett (author of Adventure on the 2600, Rocky's Boots, co-founder of The Learning Company) recently along with my friends Jeff Buchanan (left front) and Chris Maye ...

2009-07-25T06:04:54Z

Romero
I had lunch with Warren Robinett (author of Adventure on the 2600, Rocky's Boots, co-founder of The Learning Company) recently along with my friends Jeff Buchanan (left front) and Chris Maye ...

Romero's photo

2009-06-06T11:24:10Z

Romero

Nice article about Tom's Anachronox

2009-11-12T15:39:25Z

Romero
Nice article about Tom's Anachronox

Here's the Daikatana article

2009-11-12T15:39:25Z

Romero
Here's the Daikatana article

This was probably the biggest article printed about Ion Storm and our games over the years. I thought it turned out pretty good. Four double-page mini-articles to follow.

2009-11-12T15:39:25Z

Romero
This was probably the biggest article printed about Ion Storm and our games over the years. I thought it turned out pretty good. Four double-page mini-articles to follow.

This is a picture from 1997 after a hardcore Quake1 deathmatch session with my friend Noel Stephens at Ion Storm (the 30th floor, a year before we moved up to the 55th floor). The rule th ...

2009-11-12T15:39:25Z

Romero
This is a picture from 1997 after a hardcore Quake1 deathmatch session with my friend Noel Stephens at Ion Storm (the 30th floor, a year before we moved up to the 55th floor). The rule th ...

Here's a PC Gamer article about the Masters of DOOM book, February 2003. John Carmack and I had to sign off on the accuracy of the book before Random House would publish it. It's all tru ...

2009-11-12T15:39:25Z

Romero
Here's a PC Gamer article about the Masters of DOOM book, February 2003. John Carmack and I had to sign off on the accuracy of the book before Random House would publish it. It's all tru ...

Here's an old article from PC Gamer's February 2005 issue. I guess they weren't a fan of the old look and my infrequent postings. I never claimed to be some current news site! Heh. I ...

2009-11-12T15:39:25Z

Romero
Here's an old article from PC Gamer's February 2005 issue. I guess they weren't a fan of the old look and my infrequent postings. I never claimed to be some current news site! Heh. I ...

Back in 1982, just before moving to England during my sophomore year of high school (10th grade), I wrote a book about how to program Apple II arcade games and the school paper wrote about i ...

2009-11-12T15:39:25Z

Romero
Back in 1982, just before moving to England during my sophomore year of high school (10th grade), I wrote a book about how to program Apple II arcade games and the school paper wrote about i ...

The Apple II UpTime version of Dangerous Dave, the ORIGINAL version, was published with an article you read in the UpTime shell. And here it is - beware, it's long. The text was written ...

2009-07-17T05:26:21Z

Romero
The Apple II UpTime version of Dangerous Dave, the ORIGINAL version, was published with an article you read in the UpTime shell. And here it is - beware, it's long. The text was written ...

This picture was taken near the end of Quake 1's development period in 1996. American is sitting at his desk, checking out my map E2M1 (with the original Quake interface for the Base theme, ...

2009-11-12T15:38:37Z

Romero
This picture was taken near the end of Quake 1's development period in 1996. American is sitting at his desk, checking out my map E2M1 (with the original Quake interface for the Base theme, ...

This is a transfer disk circa 1991 from when we were working on various games for Softdisk and were still passing around data without a network. I had a different disk for each project with ...

2009-01-11T06:59:05Z

Romero
This is a transfer disk circa 1991 from when we were working on various games for Softdisk and were still passing around data without a network. I had a different disk for each project with ...

To advertise our second Keen release to the world Kevin Cloud created this foldable flyer that Apogee distributed to their mailing list. Kevin created this flyer in 1992 on NeXTSTEP using A ...

2009-02-12T05:16:48Z

Romero
To advertise our second Keen release to the world Kevin Cloud created this foldable flyer that Apogee distributed to their mailing list. Kevin created this flyer in 1992 on NeXTSTEP using A ...

Book 1 of the Masters of DOOM set, published in Hungarian. The translation of the title is "DooM Legendája (Legend of DooM). Hogyan változtatta meg John Carmack és John Romero a világot (Ho ...

2009-10-09T04:22:51Z

Romero
Book 1 of the Masters of DOOM set, published in Hungarian. The translation of the title is "DooM Legendája (Legend of DooM). Hogyan változtatta meg John Carmack és John Romero a világot (Ho ...

Book 2 of the Hungarian version of Masters of DOOM.

2009-10-09T04:43:24Z

Romero
Book 2 of the Hungarian version of Masters of DOOM.

Romero's photo

2009-10-09T04:00:25Z

Romero

Here's a nice piece of ancient history - some of Ultima 5's C64 tile drawing code! Dr. Cat was the guy doing the Apple to C64 port and a note by Dallas Snell was written telling him to use ...

2009-07-12T18:07:08Z

Romero
Here's a nice piece of ancient history - some of Ultima 5's C64 tile drawing code! Dr. Cat was the guy doing the Apple to C64 port and a note by Dallas Snell was written telling him to use ...

Here are the Fontrix-produced instructions, just like Subnodule. Love the newly-minted and never-again-used catchphrase: DO IT RIGHT! LOL.

2009-07-12T18:05:59Z

Romero
Here are the Fontrix-produced instructions, just like Subnodule. Love the newly-minted and never-again-used catchphrase: DO IT RIGHT! LOL.

Here's the first offical letter written from id Software to Apogee Software detailing our plans to develop the first Commander Keen trilogy. The signatures are: John Romero, John Carmack, T ...

2009-09-02T02:28:18Z

Romero
Here's the first offical letter written from id Software to Apogee Software detailing our plans to develop the first Commander Keen trilogy. The signatures are: John Romero, John Carmack, T ...

This is the view of the parking lot of the apartment complex we lived in while id Software was in Madison, Wisconsin. This picture was taken in 2006 but it looks like it did back in 1991. ...

2009-07-27T17:46:15Z

Romero
This is the view of the parking lot of the apartment complex we lived in while id Software was in Madison, Wisconsin. This picture was taken in 2006 but it looks like it did back in 1991. ...

Here's a picture of John Garcia and Steve Wozniak. I even got the G4 video team over to do a story on the reunion.

2009-07-25T06:28:31Z

Romero
Here's a picture of John Garcia and Steve Wozniak. I even got the G4 video team over to do a story on the reunion.

And this is a little more refined version of the world layout.

2009-02-21T08:38:31Z

Romero
And this is a little more refined version of the world layout.

The front of the retail box, published by Three-Sixty Pacific. Flying monkeys! Waaaaaaa!

2009-02-21T10:37:18Z

Romero
The front of the retail box, published by Three-Sixty Pacific. Flying monkeys! Waaaaaaa!

This was my design page for Jumpster and you'll see I was getting ambitious with adding new enemies. The problem was that I thought it was too similar to Jawbreaker II so I changed it to be ...

2009-07-23T18:31:15Z

Romero
This was my design page for Jumpster and you'll see I was getting ambitious with adding new enemies. The problem was that I thought it was too similar to Jawbreaker II so I changed it to be ...

And, of course, the obligatory Dopefish easter egg! (Pocket PC)

2009-06-07T06:06:32Z

Romero
And, of course, the obligatory Dopefish easter egg! (Pocket PC)

DoomDeity deathmatches while Monolith gives directions over the phone

2009-07-07T20:30:13Z

Romero
DoomDeity deathmatches while Monolith gives directions over the phone

John Cash in the midst of a Quakematch

2009-07-23T10:38:14Z

Romero
John Cash in the midst of a Quakematch

This is the final shot of the amazing job that Djedditt did with his European SNES Daikatana mod! Go to the GAMETALK forums and surf the Daikatana forum and read all about it.

2009-02-21T15:56:44Z

Romero
This is the final shot of the amazing job that Djedditt did with his European SNES Daikatana mod! Go to the GAMETALK forums and surf the Daikatana forum and read all about it.

The October 2005 issue of Computer Gaming World had an editorial on the backpage and it had a cool little graphic montage. Here it is, magnified.

2009-11-12T15:39:25Z

Romero
The October 2005 issue of Computer Gaming World had an editorial on the backpage and it had a cool little graphic montage. Here it is, magnified.

This picture was taken just after the Ion Storm office was built-out at the top of the Chase Tower in downtown Dallas in January 1998. The floor is all terrazzo, with game posters on the wa ...

2009-11-12T15:38:37Z

Romero
This picture was taken just after the Ion Storm office was built-out at the top of the Chase Tower in downtown Dallas in January 1998. The floor is all terrazzo, with game posters on the wa ...

This is a flyer for our first Keen trilogy created by Scott Miller. It was mailed out for years to his mailing list.

2009-02-12T05:16:35Z

Romero
This is a flyer for our first Keen trilogy created by Scott Miller. It was mailed out for years to his mailing list.

The back part of the flyer...

2009-02-12T05:19:35Z

Romero
The back part of the flyer...

This is my poor CPC U1 disk! Top Of The Orchard to ya!

2009-07-12T17:59:24Z

Romero
This is my poor CPC U1 disk! Top Of The Orchard to ya!

Here's the cover to my CPC Ultima 1 copy. CPC stands for California Pacific Computer, the original publisher of Akalabeth and Ultima 1.

2009-07-12T18:08:36Z

Romero
Here's the cover to my CPC Ultima 1 copy. CPC stands for California Pacific Computer, the original publisher of Akalabeth and Ultima 1.

Here's a JPG for you to mull over... This is the cover to the ziploc-baggie version that I sold while I worked at The Software Centre in Salt Lake City. The instructions and 5.25" disk wer ...

2009-02-15T05:29:48Z

Romero
Here's a JPG for you to mull over... This is the cover to the ziploc-baggie version that I sold while I worked at The Software Centre in Salt Lake City. The instructions and 5.25" disk wer ...

Here's HDB running on an iPAQ 1910 - super clear screen! This pic was sent by my friend Doug Beck (RocketElite, Bust 'Em)

2009-09-01T23:39:49Z

Romero
Here's HDB running on an iPAQ 1910 - super clear screen! This pic was sent by my friend Doug Beck (RocketElite, Bust 'Em)

Right in the middle of the picture is the apartment where John Carmack lived and id Software worked. It was a 3 bedroom apartment so John was upstairs and all the id equipment was downstairs ...

2009-09-01T23:33:12Z

Romero
Right in the middle of the picture is the apartment where John Carmack lived and id Software worked. It was a 3 bedroom apartment so John was upstairs and all the id equipment was downstairs ...

The extremely venerable Softdisk headquarters - it looks like a dump. The streets on both sides went up a hill and the streets behind the building were even with the roof......which is wher ...

2009-08-11T21:51:32Z

Romero
The extremely venerable Softdisk headquarters - it looks like a dump. The streets on both sides went up a hill and the streets behind the building were even with the roof......which is wher ...

Here's the front of the inviation I made for the event.

2009-07-15T18:00:25Z

Romero
Here's the front of the inviation I made for the event.

This photo was taken the night of December 23, 2001 at around 2:30am when Tom and Lucas left for the night after we mastered HDB and prepared it for upload. Way out in the country where Mon ...

2009-07-23T19:19:41Z

Romero
This photo was taken the night of December 23, 2001 at around 2:30am when Tom and Lucas left for the night after we mastered HDB and prepared it for upload. Way out in the country where Mon ...

Here's a screenshot of the first Win32 program I wrote, TED 2001, the tilemap editor Tom used to create all of HDB's maps. I wrote some crazy shit in the About... dialog and you'll see an o ...

2009-07-23T12:57:31Z

Romero
Here's a screenshot of the first Win32 program I wrote, TED 2001, the tilemap editor Tom used to create all of HDB's maps. I wrote some crazy shit in the About... dialog and you'll see an o ...

The original Pocket PC DVD case design. The logo was reworked along with some other elements.

2009-06-06T10:32:52Z

Romero
The original Pocket PC DVD case design. The logo was reworked along with some other elements.

DoomDeity starts to worry about his frag count

2009-07-07T20:00:12Z

Romero
DoomDeity starts to worry about his frag count

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2009-07-23T11:04:47Z

Romero
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PoLiSh and Avatar playing some Doom 2

2009-07-23T11:36:34Z

Romero
PoLiSh and Avatar playing some Doom 2

Chatting with Romero in the parking lot

2009-02-21T11:17:54Z

Romero
Chatting with Romero in the parking lot

Avatar scratches his head as Dave Taylor does something on a computer

2009-07-07T19:53:17Z

Romero
Avatar scratches his head as Dave Taylor does something on a computer

Everyone watches as American gets on IRC. The guys in the picture, left to right, are: Mark Fletcher - DOOM god, my IT Manager at Ion Storm during its entire existence (8.5 years) and now h ...

2009-07-07T20:37:42Z

Romero
Everyone watches as American gets on IRC. The guys in the picture, left to right, are: Mark Fletcher - DOOM god, my IT Manager at Ion Storm during its entire existence (8.5 years) and now h ...

Back of the box. Jon Van Caneghem coded the whole thing and I got to see every line of 6502 assembly code he wrote. :)

2009-02-21T11:39:20Z

Romero
Back of the box. Jon Van Caneghem coded the whole thing and I got to see every line of 6502 assembly code he wrote. :)

Hahaha - we're gonna make everyone eat their words! GULP! We ate ours.

2009-11-12T15:39:25Z

Romero
Hahaha - we're gonna make everyone eat their words! GULP! We ate ours.

Here's one of the 2-page ads for Daikatana. I liked this one best. The tagline "Suspect everyone, trust no one" was tired and dumb even back then.

2009-06-06T09:09:39Z

Romero
Here's one of the 2-page ads for Daikatana. I liked this one best. The tagline "Suspect everyone, trust no one" was tired and dumb even back then.

Sub Hunt! Not really. It's the legendary SUBNODULE! Can you believe they actually changed the name on the box and the game itself had "Subnodule" all over it? Dolts. Anyway, this was ...

2009-02-21T19:28:44Z

Romero
Sub Hunt! Not really. It's the legendary SUBNODULE! Can you believe they actually changed the name on the box and the game itself had "Subnodule" all over it? Dolts. Anyway, this was ...

I drew advertisements of my early games because the ads looked better than the games! (That was true for most games from the early '80s).

2009-02-21T20:53:07Z

Romero
I drew advertisements of my early games because the ads looked better than the games! (That was true for most games from the early '80s).

This is a hi-resolution image we used for marketing. It's pretty detailed and you can see just how great Eric really is! Hanging from the top is Bongo, the simian archaeologist staring b ...

2009-07-17T07:14:33Z

Romero
This is a hi-resolution image we used for marketing. It's pretty detailed and you can see just how great Eric really is! Hanging from the top is Bongo, the simian archaeologist staring b ...

Here's a hi-resolution image of the Congo Cube main menu with its happy little campfire nearby. I really love the feel of the game with the Congo location graphics and the music....ahhhh. ...

2009-02-22T00:53:04Z

Romero
Here's a hi-resolution image of the Congo Cube main menu with its happy little campfire nearby. I really love the feel of the game with the Congo location graphics and the music....ahhhh. ...

This is a great review of the PC version. As you can tell, the guy (Andrew) is hardcore addicted to the game. In fact, a few of the guys on my Gauntlet team at Midway were addicted to the ...

2009-07-17T07:30:59Z

Romero
This is a great review of the PC version. As you can tell, the guy (Andrew) is hardcore addicted to the game. In fact, a few of the guys on my Gauntlet team at Midway were addicted to the ...