Recommended on this episode
MediaRecommended
MyHouse.WAD
“one of the greatest mods that has been created ... Incredible”
“one of the greatest mods that has been created was released not that long ago, this year. Incredible. It's called MyHouse.WAD”— John Romero
The guest's own work
MediaBy the guest
Hovertank One
id Software (inferred)
“The first 3D game that we made was called Hovertank One, and that was just to get our feet wet in 3D”— John Romero
MediaBy the guest
Wolfenstein 3D
id Software (inferred)
“When we're coming up with the design of the game, let's say in this case it's Wolfenstein 3D”— John Romero
MediaBy the guest
Spear of Destiny
id Software (inferred)
“Right after Wolfenstein 3D, we made Spear of Destiny. That took us two months. That was number 88.”— John Romero
MediaBy the guest
DOOM
id Software (inferred)
“we're going to start working on this new game that we called DOOM”— John Romero
MediaBy the guest
Quake
id Software (inferred)
“We started making the last game that I had worked on, at id Software's named Quake, and we started working on Quake in 1995”— John Romero
MediaBy the guest
DOOM II
id Software (inferred)
“He had already kind of started planning the technology at the end of '94 when we were finishing DOOM II”— John Romero
MediaBy the guest
Commander Keen
id Software (inferred)
“we pioneered the idea of an engine in 1990 with our original Commander Keen game. We started calling it an engine even before we launched Keen”— John Romero
BookBy the guestISBN verified
DOOM Guy: Life in First Person
John Romero (inferred)
“What led you to want to write your memoir, DOOM Guy: Life in First Person? What were the reasons for wanting to write this book”— Tim Ferriss
Also referenced (named, not recommended)
MediaReferenced
Hunt the Wumpus
“he starts showing me these really early text games, and these text games are Hunt the Wumpus and Star Trek and Poison Cookie”— John Romero
MediaReferenced
Star Trek
“these text games are Hunt the Wumpus and Star Trek and Poison Cookie and these just really early, early games”— John Romero
MediaReferenced
Poison Cookie
“these text games are Hunt the Wumpus and Star Trek and Poison Cookie and these just really early, early games”— John Romero
ProductReferenced
TRS-80
Radio Shack (inferred)
“like Radio Shack has a TRS-80 or something, I would sit down and I would find one of the books that has programming in it”— John Romero
MediaReferenced
Battlezone
Atari (inferred)
“not until we get to, say, Battlezone in 1980 does it become very smooth. And Battlezone is line-drawn pyramids and stuff”— John Romero
MediaReferenced
Might & Magic
New World Computing (inferred)
“if you play, say, Might & Magic, you'll see it. I think some Wizardry games also had it. And even Ultima”— John Romero
MediaReferenced
Wizardry
Sir-Tech (inferred)
“if you play, say, Might & Magic, you'll see it. I think some Wizardry games also had it. And even Ultima”— John Romero
MediaReferenced
Ultima
Origin Systems (inferred)
“And even Ultima, when you go into the dungeons, you'll see a rendered 3D view that has texture on it”— John Romero
MediaReferenced
Super Mario Bros.
Nintendo (inferred)
“Yeah, Super Mario Bros. is a side-scrolling game, and there were thousands of them throughout the '80s”— John Romero
MediaReferenced
Castle Wolfenstein
Muse Software (inferred)
“the inspiration for Wolfenstein 3D was a 1981 game called Castle Wolfenstein. And it had a lot of really great gameplay features”— John Romero
MediaReferenced
ShadowCaster
Raven Software (inferred)
“There was a game called ShadowCaster that used our technology that we had made. So all the tools that I wrote”— John Romero
MediaReferenced
Ultima Underworld
Blue Sky Productions (inferred)
“Ultima Underworld was out, and it was a really great roleplaying game set in 3D, but the 3D let you turn your head and look up and down”— John Romero
MediaReferenced
Blackroom
Night Work Games (inferred)
“There was a game that I was working on called Blackroom, and every once in a while I get people asking, 'So what's up with Blackroom?'”— John Romero
MediaReferenced
The Color of Money
“He was watching Tom Cruise's The Color of Money movie and when he was watching it and he saw that the guy walk up to Tom Cruise”— John Romero
More from Tim Ferriss
All 35816 recommended