224: Heavy Metal Twenty-Something Swagger
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English - March 03, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour - 76.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 456 ratingsTechnology Science apple google smart phone smartphone space tech technology videogame android science Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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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