John Romero is an award-winning game development icon whose work spans over 130 games, 108 of which have been published commercially. Romero is the "father of first person shooters" having led the design and contributed to the programming and audio design of the iconic and genre-defining games DOOM, Wolfenstein, Quake, Heretic and Hexen. Romero has co-founded nine successful game companies including the likes of id Software.