224: Heavy Metal Twenty-Something Swagger
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Book club returns this week, now that we've both read id Software founder John Romero's memoir, Doom Guy: Life in First Person. Join us for an extremely nerdy chat about Romero's early days as a teenage Apple II developer learning 6502 assembly, the pre-id team's blistering one-game-a-month output at Softdisk, technical innovations that led to id's most groundbreaking games, the internal strife that ultimately split the company, retrospective thoughts on a very different mid-'90s Doom 3 than the one we got later, and a bunch more.
Pick up Doom Guy: https://www.amazon.com/Doom-Guy-Life-First-Person/dp/141975811X
Romero's fan mail to Jordan Mechner: https://twitter.com/jmechner/status/1253777950299873283
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