Romero > Me, PinWizz and Tom at the 2004 KRI Conference in Moscow.
Romero > Ion Storm Founders .. I'm Cousin Itt.
Romero > Tom and I at KRI.
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 corner and it had the subtitle "We're Not Wearing Any Pants!".  This picture was taken in the Mesquite, TX id apartment during the same session and was a "crazy shot" we didn't use.
Romero > August 8, 1998 - the Apple II Reunion at Ion Storm.  This is a picture of myself, Steve Wozniak (our hero) and Tom Hall.  Awesome party!
Romero > Mr. Diffrence and Tom Hall (right)
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 second Commander Keen series (4-5) that we sold as shareware. Keen 6 (Aliens Ate My Baby Sitter!) was published in retail so it wasn't part of this award. We all rented tuxedoes for the event - something I've rarely done for award events since then! I'm writing this in 2004 and Jay Wilbur has been working at Epic Games for more years than he worked at id Software and Tom Hall is working with me at Midway Home Entertainment in San Diego - we've worked together for over 15 years!
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 started many of the original DOOM maps
and after he left, Sandy Petersen finished them -- some of the maps had very little work done to them, in fact.

On Tom's monitor is a little printout that says, "Quality". He always has notes stuck to his monitor to keep him reminded
of .... things. That orange thing could very well be the very first keyboard wrist pad -- made by a friend of his back before you
saw them in stores. The speaker at the far right is one of the first Altec Lansing clamshell models. The microphone in front
of Tom was there for NeXTSTEP's awesome email feature - built-in voice emails! We always sent them back and forth... I think
I might have some of them lying around here...
Me, PinWizz and Tom at the 2004 KRI Conference in Moscow.
Romero > Me, PinWizz and Tom at the 2004 KRI Conference in Moscow.
Me, PinWizz and Tom at the 2004 KRI Conference in Moscow.
See photo in gallery

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