Jay Wilbur and I drove down highway 45 on the way to Houston. But Midway was known as a quality company back then. Other companies that worked on Doom ports, we didn't know them that well. John Romero: Midway had been around for decades. What was id's level of involvement with this port relative to the others, and why was it such a different type of port-still Doom, but more its own thing? John Romero at the 2018 Videogame Executive Forum. It's missing some geometry and levels, but it adds so much: new levels, new lighting, new audio. The versions on SNES, Jaguar, and 32X were missing bits and pieces here and there, but they were still Doom. Craddock: The interesting thing about Doom ports, for me, is that they were faithful to the original game. Romero set aside time to talk with me about multiple ports of Doom, as well as a wild three-week period spent converting Wolfenstein 3D to the Super Nintendo.ĭavid L. After Doom's release in December 1993, John Romero turned his attention to scouting for opportunities to collaborate on external projects related to id's games, namely strategy guides and ports. The studio started small and remained small through development of Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3D, and Doom. Working at id Software in the 1990s was like working inside a bunker, only with more pizza, soda, and video games.
