The Game Developers Choice Awards will honor the Softdisk alumnus at this year’s GDC.
John Romero
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John Romero discusses the Apple II memory map
Jason Scott has been hard at work filming his next set ofĂ‚ documentaries. Ă‚ As part of the process, Scott has been posting to his YouTubeĂ‚ channel “teaser” clips and “test footage” from some of the interviews he’s been conducting. Ă‚ Here’s one that might be of particular interest to Apple II users, in whichĂ‚ John Romero describes committing the […]
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John Romero’s fan letter to Jordan Mechner published
Before John Romero became an epic game developer and all around awesome guy, he was a kid. Ă‚ “A very smart kid,” asĂ‚ Kotaku’s Stephen Totilo puts it. Ă‚ He was also a gamer who loved what he played and wasn’t afraid to let developers know it. Ă‚ InĂ‚ this letter from 1985, published yesterday by Kotaku, a young Romero […]
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John Romero to keynote KansasFest 2012
SEPTEMBER 30, 2011 — KansasFest 2012, the Apple II convention scheduled for July 17—22 in Kansas City, Missouri, comes just two months after the twentieth anniversary of Wolfenstein 3D, the first-person shooter that, when released for MS-DOS in 1992, defined a genre that is still popular today. Not only did the game, which was later […]