John Romero, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

John Romero

American video game designer

Date of Birth: 28-Oct-1967

Place of Birth: Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States

Profession: businessperson, engineer, computer scientist, game programmer, programmer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

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Alfonso John Romero (born October 28, 1967) is an American director, designer, programmer, and developer in the video game industry.
He is best known as a co-founder of id Software and designer for many of their games, including Wolfenstein 3D, Dangerous Dave, Hexen, Doom, Doom II and Quake.
His game designs and development tools, along with new programming techniques created and implemented by id Software's lead programmer John D.
Carmack, led to a mass popularization of the first-person shooter, or FPS, in the 1990s.
He is credited with coining the FPS multiplayer term "deathmatch".