Between 19, Romero was romantically involved with Stevie Case, a prominent female gaming industry figure who beat him in a Quake deathmatch. Romero and Hall co-founded Monkeystone Games in July 2001.
Romero left with Tom Hall immediately after the release of Hall's Anachronox game and the subsequent closing of the Dallas Ion Storm office. In particular, an infamous 1997 ad (by Ion's then-CEO Mike Wilson) with the slogan "John Romero's about to make you his bitch" upset many people. That game's critical and commercial failure damaged Romero's reputation, earning him popular blame for questionable development decisions worsened by his name being hyped in the game's early marketing. Romero then co-founded Ion Storm in Dallas, Texas with id co-worker Tom Hall, where he designed and produced Daikatana. In 1996 Romero was forced to resign from id Software for "not working hard enough". As of 2017, Romero still considers Doom his proudest development achievement. Romero became a key figure in the creation of several seminal games including Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, and Quake, as well as serving as an executive producer on Raven Software's Heretic and Hexen. He has three children, Michael, Steven, and Lillia.Īfter repeated conflicts with management over the direction of game development, several Softdisk employees departed to form id Software in 1991. Romero has been married three times, to Kelly Mitchell, Raluca Plesca, and Brenda Brathwaite. He briefly attended Sierra College before dropping out to work at Origin Systems, then Softdisk. While still a teenager, he published Apple II games in hobbyist magazines such as Nibble.
1.5 Slipgate Ironworks/Gazillion Entertainmentīorn in Colorado, John Romero began programming at age 11 in the student-run computer labs of Sierra College in California.
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