GAME DESIGNER

John Romero

1967 - Today

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Alfonso John Romero (born October 28, 1967) is an American video game developer. He co-founded id Software and designed their early games, including Wolfenstein 3D (1992), Doom (1993), Doom II (1994), Hexen (1995) and Quake (1996). His designs and development tools, along with programming techniques developed by the id programmer John Carmack, popularized the first-person shooter (FPS) genre. Romero is also credited with coining the multiplayer term "deathmatch". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia. John Romero is the 37th most popular game designer (down from 33rd in 2024), the 9,341st most popular biography from United States (down from 8,744th in 2019) and the 11th most popular American Game Designer.

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Among GAME DESIGNERS

Among game designers, John Romero ranks 37 out of 77. Before him are Peter Molyneux, Kazunori Yamauchi, Roberta Williams, Hideki Kamiya, Eiji Aonuma, and Chris Taylor. After him are Yuji Horii, Tetsuya Nomura, Dave Arneson, Yuji Naka, Tim Cain, and Jeff Kaplan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1967, John Romero ranks 287. Before him are Dave Navarro, DJ Yella, Sul Kyung-gu, Nicola Berti, Sasha Mitchell, and Klaus Tschütscher. After him are Jhumpa Lahiri, Fyodor Bondarchuk, Kate Barry, Claes Bang, Yukiko Okada, and Gaston Browne.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Romero ranks 9,344 out of 20,380. Before him are Christine Estabrook (1952), Chloe Webb (1956), Rick Scott (1952), Ilene Woods (1929), George Abbott (1887), Shelly Manne (1920), and Tim Conway (1933). After him are Carl Kaufmann (1936), Gregory Walcott (1928), Alfred Lane (1891), Lawrence Gordon (1936), and Lizzie Velásquez (1989).

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Among GAME DESIGNERS In United States

Among game designers born in United States, John Romero ranks 11. Before him are John Carmack (1970), Todd Howard (1971), Steve Jackson (1953), Carol Shaw (1955), Will Wright (1960), and Roberta Williams (1953). After him are Dave Arneson (1947), Jeff Kaplan (1972), Scott Cawthon (1971), Ron Gilbert (1964), Ed Boon (1964), and Jordan Mechner (1964).

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