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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.
Romero > This is the original id Software lake house in Shreveport, LA - the place where we started the company. Located on Lakeshore Drive, this is what the house looks like today. Back in 1990, there were 4 Softdisk guys living in this house together; it was a total frathouse. Jay Wilbur, Jason Blochowiak, John Carmack and Lane Roathe were the main residents and Tom Hall and myself would come over every day to work on our games.
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 where the employees parked their cars! The garage door with the black accordian bars was where Al Vekovius used to park his Mercedes. Good ole 606 Common Street. The coders and artists were actually in a much nicer building just down the street on Milam Ave.
Romero > There it is - all in blue! Uhhmmmmm.....it looks like a prison...
Romero > The view of Softdisk's roof then the street going down to the lower Softdisk parking lot entrance.
Romero > This is the roof of Softdisk where everyone parked. The tall building to the right is the Fairmont Apartments.
Romero > Here's a view of Cross Lake and the island we used to go kneeboarding around.
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 this was sometime in September 1990. You can see how nice it was outside while we were inside just coding. Heh. The computer setup on the far table was Tom's 386/33 and a TV set hooked up to a VCR that had a videotape of Super Mario 3 freeze-framed so he could duplicate the graphics pixel-by-pixel. The TV between John and I was hooked up to an NES so we could play SM3 and watch the movement and how things worked so we could duplicate it. There's a whiteboard propped up with writing on it that detailed all the tasks we needed to do to finish the demo. During this time there was a lot of summer flooding around the lake and one day I actually waded through a ton of water up to my waist to get to id to keep coding. Lucky for me I didn't run into any snakes!
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.
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.
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.
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