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How 'Doom' creator John Romero shaped video games and culture at large

08.30.2023 - By CBCPlay

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Video game legend John Romero opens up about his tumultuous upbringing and how he went on to make his mark on the video game industry by pioneering the first-person shooter genre through games like Wolfenstein 3D, Doom and Quake. He joins Rebecca Zandbergen to talk about his new memoir, Doom Guy: Life in First Person, and how the video game industry has changed and shaped culture at large — from the relationship between fictional and real-world violence, to the conception of video games as an art.

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