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John Romero

1967 - Today

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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 a co-founder of id Software and designed their early games, including Wolfenstein 3D (1992), Doom (1993), Doom II (1994), Hexen (1995) and Quake (1996). His designs and development tools, along with programming techniques developed by id Software's lead programmer, John Carmack, popularized the first-person shooter (FPS) genre. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Romero has received more than 2,403,745 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). John Romero is the 26th most popular game designer (up from 27th in 2019), the 7,372nd most popular biography from United States (up from 8,371st in 2019) and the 8th most popular American Game Designer.

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  • 2.4M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 45.29

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.68

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.53

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among GAME DESIGNERS

Among game designers, John Romero ranks 26 out of 56. Before him are Masahiro Sakurai, Peter Molyneux, Steve Jackson, Will Wright, John Carmack, and Hidetaka Miyazaki. After him are Yu Suzuki, Eiji Aonuma, Tetsuya Nomura, Dave Arneson, Yuji Horii, and Yuji Naka.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1967, John Romero ranks 207. Before him are Igor Dobrovolski, José Padilha, Mohamed Nasheed, Edu Manga, Tom Kristensen, and Tommy Gunn. After him are Sam Harris, Nathalie Cardone, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Junkie XL, Mireya Luis, and Leonidas Kavakos.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Romero ranks 7,372 out of 18,182. Before him are Bobby Helms (1933), Mary Browne (1891), Barbara Hammer (1939), Charlotte Moore Sitterly (1898), Robert Cray (1953), and Larry Linville (1939). After him are Pat Crawford Brown (1929), Laura La Plante (1904), Sam Harris (1967), Albina Osipowich (1911), CM Punk (1978), and J. B. Lenoir (1929).

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Among GAME DESIGNERS In United States

Among game designers born in United States, John Romero ranks 8. Before him are Jeff Kinney (1971), Lizzie Magie (1866), Gary Gygax (1938), Steve Jackson (1953), Will Wright (1960), and John Carmack (1970). After him are Dave Arneson (1947), Ron Gilbert (1964), Roberta Williams (1953), Scott Cawthon (1971), Ed Boon (1964), and Carol Shaw (1955).

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