From John Romero’s upcoming autobiography.

In 1990, John Romero, John Carmack, and Tom Hall were working at Louisiana software maker Softdisk. There, they had an idea that would change PC games forever.

  • TheDeadGuy@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I find it interesting that the guys who wrote the initial side-scrolling code had no idea how revolutionary it was

    • HidingCat@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Sometimes you have no idea of what you’re doing on a wider scale. For John and Tom, it was likely a very cool and neat technical problem they overcame while solving a problem in front of them.