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Romero Games @romerogames.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

John Romero will be a keynote speaker at Gamescom Asia x Thailand Game Show at the end of this month. 🖤 We are so excited to see all of you. It’s our first trip to Thailand and it is a huge honour. Thank you for having us! 🤘 🎟️ gamescom.asia/tickets

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Romero Games @romerogames.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

John Romero @johnromero.bsky.social will be attending San Diego Comic Con: Malaga from October 1 - 4th! We’re looking forward to meeting all of you there. See you soon! 🤘🖤 #sdccmalaga @sandiegocomic-con.bsky.social

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Romero Games @romerogames.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It was going great, then a majestic-haired person showed up. #wearedevelopers

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Romero Games @romerogames.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Beyond Fear: Inside Action Horror Games by Nick Ackerman is available NOW! 📚 You can get your copy here: www.amazon.co.uk/Beyond-Fear-... It’s a great read and we’ve really been enjoying it here in the office. ❤️ #horror #fps #videogames

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Romero Games @romerogames.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

It’s finally time for a photodump! #QuakeCon❤️

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Romero Games @romerogames.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Today is our 11th birthday! We are so grateful for all the support we have received during that time. Here’s to many more years and memories. ❤️

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Romero Games @romerogames.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Thank you so much for the best weekend ever. ❤️

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Romero Games @romerogames.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Thank you so much for your kind words. ❤️

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Romero Games @romerogames.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Just a reminder that QuakeCon is fast approaching... did you get your tickets? 👀 We are so excited and can't wait to see you all there! 🖤🤘 quakecon.bethesda.net/en/ #quake #quakecon

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John Romero @johnromero.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

What an incredible honor, and DOOM is the only video game on the list! Congrats to DOOM devs, players, modders, and the entire games community. This one is for all of us. Thanks @gene.meme and @washingtonpost.com !

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Romero Games @romerogames.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Ever wonder if John was surprised by DOOM II’s easter egg? 👀 #DOOM #DOOMII #fps

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Romero Games @romerogames.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Today we’re celebrating the release of Angels Fall First, which is now available on Steam in 1.0! Romero Games’ Art Director, Josh Grafton, is part of the development team behind it. (Strangely Interactive) He spoke about the game. Check it out! 🖤✨ store.steampowered.com/app/367270/A...

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Romero Games @romerogames.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

We created a copy for alt text. Unfortunately, it was well beyond the character limit. Here’s the text. 🖤

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Romero Games @romerogames.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

April 1991: Bobby Prince wrote to id Software about the painstaking work of finding the right sound for Commander Keen. This letter captures so much of Bobby: curious, generous, technical, musical, & fully committed to making games sound better than anyone thought they could. 🖤

In April 1991, Bobby Prince wrote to id Software about the painstaking work of finding the right sound for Commander Keen, experimenting with AdLib, Sound Blaster, MIDI files, and anything that could make a PC game feel alive.

This letter is a small piece of that history, but it captures so much of Bobby: curious, generous, technical, musical, and fully committed to making games sound better than anyone thought they could. ✉️🎵🖤

Bobby’s work helped define the sound of id Software and an entire era of PC games. We’re grateful for his music and the enormous legacy he leaves behind.

🔹A note on the image: we’ve redacted a private, active phone number from the letter. The letter itself is otherwise shared as a historical document from 1991. It includes a dated racial term that is offensive today; we don’t use or endorse that language, but we’re leaving the document intact and acknowledging it here.

Dear Guys,
I appreciate your phone calls and and the chance to work with you and your group. I have been going through a fair to midlin steep learning curve for the past couple of weeks, but I think I'm almost over it. I have had only limited experience with the hardware (SoundBlaster/AdLib), but with some detective work (and Jason's help on the phone and soon to come
by mail software/info), I have everything about ready to go. The biggest problem now is going through all the instrument sounds and learning what's there.

The sound of the instruments will be as important as the music being played. Also, there are a lot of potential sound effects in the FMsynth, so I am listening to all octaves to see what may lurk in the background.

I have already found a good gidget sound to go with the graphics in Commander Keen 3 (those electric arc things are called gidgets, I believe). So, I am going crazy listening to FM synth sounds, and if I don't make any sense the next time we talk that's the reason why.

The enclosed tape has only samples of some of my sequencing work done for backtrack tapes. The choice of songs is arbitrary, except I included Gimme Three Steps and Born To Be Wild for the guitar players and old time
enthusiasts.

I do know my way around this stuff, but I don't want to send you any game or theme music until I have the right SB/AdLib sounds to put it across right. If I send you what I've done on the samplers, etc., you won’t won't think anything sounds right when you hear the SB/AdLib version.

For comparisons sake, I'm including Color My World on samplers, etc., disk and a “translated” version for the SB (it’s on the disk, just type “PLAY” as the CMF driver, etc. is included.)
Lay Cogs dron or thes

Forgive my leaving out the drum parts on the CMF — I couldn’t get the &8$%# thing to go into rhythm mode for some reason. When I called Creative's Tech line, I did not get any help, and it was impossible — a southerner from Georgia trying to talk to an ori…

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Romero Games @romerogames.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Building the ultimate Romero Games haul. 🛒🤘 How many of these items are in your collection? All and more available on romero.com. 🖤 #fps #DOOM #romerogames

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Romero Games @romerogames.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Question we get: Does the Shambler have fur or skin? We asked Adrian Carmack. “It’s skin. My original shambler concept. The holes would be a gooey painted texture but even with that & simplifying the form… it was too complex for an early process Quake character.“ #Quake

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Romero Games @romerogames.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I think that would probably break the PC

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Romero Games @romerogames.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Thank you so much!🖤 Here’s a virtual one for the time being 🤝

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Romero Games @romerogames.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Happy 30th birthday, Quake! 🎂🎈 And thank you all for playing. See you later today on twitch.tv/theromero. 9pm - 11pm GMT+1. 🎉 #quake #johnromero #fps

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Romero Games @romerogames.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Monday 22nd June at 9 - 11pm GMT+1 🎂🖤 @johnromero.bsky.social will be live streaming Quake and hosting a Q&A on twitch.tv/theromero. See you there! #Quake

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Romero Games @romerogames.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

@johnromero.bsky.social is at the Cyl Game Show in Zamora this weekend! 🖤 cylgamesshow.com

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Romero Games @romerogames.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Congrats to Ardán taking over the first floor of our old (but much loved) space in Galway City centre! 📍 We moved to our new, larger office in Dockgate on Merchants Road in 2023 (reception pictured). The old office had been used to store John’s archives! 🖤

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Romero Games @romerogames.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

John @johnromero.bsky.social will be at MCM Comic Con London today and tomorrow! Come say hi if you’re there. 👋

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Romero Games @romerogames.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Beyond Fear (Inside Action Horror Games) by Nick Akerman is available now on Amazon! It includes a foreword by @johnromero.bsky.social and is a great read for any fans of the horror genre. 🖤🤘📚 Amazon link: www.amazon.co.uk/Beyond-Fear-...

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Romero Games @romerogames.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Guess who’s coming to QuakeCon? 👀 Check out Hugo and Josh’s announcement. www.youtube.com/live/DcmrBC2...

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Romero Games @romerogames.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Late pledges are open for Game On, a feature film about Brenda Romero by Theresa Loong! A new reward has been introduced: A D&D session with Dungeon Master Ethan Gilsdorf. 📚 Link Below: www.kickstarter.com/projects/the...

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Romero Games @romerogames.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Brenda Romero’s ‘Chasing Lilacs’ is featured in CTRL: Essays on Video Games! There’s an event tomorrow at @cuirtfestival.bsky.social if you’re interested in learning more. 💜📘 www.cuirt.ie/whats-on/ctr...

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Romero Games @romerogames.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Did you know: The chainsaw in DOOM was modelled off of Tom Hall’s Eager Beaver chainsaw. It leaked oil, and so was kept in a bowl in the id offices. Tom still has it!💛 #DOOM #fps

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Romero Games @romerogames.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

We thought we should make this a monthly post! 👀🤘 What are you playing lately? #videogames #romerogames #gaming #spring

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Romero Games @romerogames.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

John Romero will be at Wales Comic Con 4th - 5th April! 🤘 You can expect a live panel at the event as well as a meet and greet. Hope to see you there! 🖤 @walescomiccon.bsky.social #johnromero #videogames #fps #gaming #comiccon

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Romero Games @romerogames.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Wishing everyone a great end to the year, a chance to recharge, and a brilliant start to 2026. ❄️🤘

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Romero Games @romerogames.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

RIP Vince Zampella. Our deepest sympathies go out to Vince’s family, friends, and all who were touched by his work. He left an incredible mark on games and the FPS genre.

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