Romero Departs Midway [Jul 13, 2005, 09:29 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
A post to the
ROME.RO Forums (thanks Rob) from John Romero himself confirms rumors that
the former id Software and ION Storm designer is
no longer with Midway Entertainment. The reports first surfaced on
Computer Games Magazine
yesterday, and we contacted The Romero for a
response to the rumors, which he chose to address in the forums:
Hey guys, I can definitely confirm that I have left Midway - I've been gone for about 3 weeks and Rhaluka and I have been traveling around and having fun together (a sort of honeymoon without going to tropical destinations).
Midway says that development of Gauntlet hasn't been impacted by my departure and is scheduled to ship this fall. I can't say anything more about the situation and hope you all understand. (smile)
I'm currently looking at lots of exciting developments right now and it'll be a couple months before I can announce my next destination.
Commander Keen - 10/10
Commander Keen was derivative crap compared to the ground-breaking platform games available on the Amiga at the time. Turrican, Gods, the Psygnosis games, etc. True, some of that was the hardware's fault--PCs were still 16-color, low res wordprocessors and calculators back then, compared to 4096 color multimedia Amigas--but the design of the game itself wasn't anything special. It was a demonstration of Carmack's programming abilities and not much of a game. I suppose you could also consider the budget they were working with, but still, it was crap compared to those Amiga games.
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