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...knows that at the top of a downtown skyscraper is a guy whose father once slammed his face into a video-game screen. And now John Romero, 30, who ditched college, has the same birthday as Bill Gates, wears cutoffs to work and cruises there in one of his Ferraris or BMWs, or possibly the yellow Humvee, is a multimillionaire game designer like his three partners. Romero can't put gas in his car now without being hounded for autographs by admiring gamers. Maybe your son even knows Romero has 120 employees, some of them teenagers, making...
...says Tom Hall, one of Romero's partners, "are the new cowboys...
...Maybe a parent can death-match with their kid to share an activity," says Romero...
Keep one thing in mind, says Breslin. All ION Storm's games, several of which will be released in the next 1 1/2 years, are about good vs. evil. And about character growth. "Splattered blood and flying meat" just make the experience more real, says Romero...
Though each of the four owners had been majorly successful before this venture, it was Romero's rock star-level status as co-creator of the revolutionary games Doom and Quake that generated the buzz, marked Dallas as the blood-and-gore capital and drew talent from around the world. Talent that is now assembled in a Mad Max postindustrial setting where the refrigerators are packed with soft drinks, the food is free, and with several lounges and sack centers. Why go home...