In The Keep Podcast – John Romero @ Realms Deep 2020
61Father John Romero sits down with Fred Schreiber (3D Realms) & Jehar (Tastyspleen.tv) to take a verbal stroll through his life as an innovator in the gaming industry. From coding in his bedroom as a kid & working with Softdisk to co-founding id Software & creating Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3D, Doom & Quake, John was a rock star in the world of game development when he co-founded Ion Storm & created the now infamous Daikatana. Nowadays Father John is still hard at work having released several mobile games, 2019’s Sigil & currently working on the upcoming Empire of Sin with his lovely wife Brenda.
John Romero:
https://www.romerogames.ie/
Fred Schreiber:
https://twitter.com/Freschism
Editing by
Haducant:
https://twitter.com/Uncle_Had
Vince Steel:
https://twitter.com/vincexsteel
RedEyesGreenDragon:
https://www.youtube.com/c/redeyesgreendragon/
Assets provided by Jehar of Tastyspleen.tv:
https://twitter.com/tastyspleentv
The Keep:
http://inthekeep.com/
Realms Deep 2020:
https://www.realmsdeep.game/
Timestamps:
0:00 Welcome to Realms Deep In The Keep
2:02 Dangerous Dave
4:37 Final Doom ammo crate / Advertising for Romero's games
13:54 John Romero's days at the arcade
17:22 Paper route
19:57 Romero's origin in programming
25:46 Early video game programming (Apple II)
33:59 Programming in BASIC class / First programming job
36:18 Selling games to magazines
38:47 The fragmentation of the computer market
40:30 Working at game companies
42:50 8-bit is dead / Cross Development
45:03 Infocom
46:41 Softdisk (Ports, John Carmack, subscription based games)
1:01:47 The Scott Miller letters
1:03:46 Commander Keen
1:04:51 Super Mario Bros 3
1:06:28 PC overtaking console gaming
1:07:28 Sigil / Masters of Doom
1:10:58 Sigil's line segments
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