A Visit to id Software from john romero on Vimeo.
Joe Siegler IM’d me a couple weeks ago and said he found a VHS tape that had some DOOM footage on it before its release and if I didn’t want it he was gonna throw it out.
I said, “Send it to me immediately.”
So now I finally got it, ripped it to digital and then used iMovie to present it to anyone with an interest in DOOM history. Here’s what I wrote up about the video:
In 1993, Dan Linton, owner of a hugely successful BBS called Software Creations, visited Texas and made his way to id Software. This is the footage he recorded one night in November 1993. Shown are several of id’s employees at the time: Jay Wilbur, Shawn Green, John Romero, Dave Taylor, Sandy Petersen and Adrian Carmack. Bobby Prince was visiting to finish the music and create the sound effects. This video has 21 minutes of me playing DOOM before the sound effects were put in as well as some early deathmatching with Shawn Green.
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Wonderful vid! =D
I was redirected here from doomworld, and I’m very glad that I saw this.
Truly a blast from the past =D
thanks!
what in hell is nostalgia? I dont know but if we can get this kind of stuff from time to time I think I like it!
… I wish I could turn back time… damn! Im a little sad…
isn’t a quake age video like this somewhere?
One of the coolest videos ever. Thanks so much!
Oh, man, you’VE GOT to work with Carmack again!!! You, along with adrian and kevin, do magic together. This video is so awesome. Thanks and greetings from Argentina.
so cool
EPIC!
Thx for sharing John! Cool stuff!
Awesome, reading masters of doom at the moment so brilliant to see this
awesome!! it brings me back to those wonderful days.. thank you John for posting this!
Awsome! Its just incredible to see bits like this form the past; like a time machine of sorts. I always liked your fascination for the history of your life and gaming in general, its like you are you’re own curator or something
Say, one question: Are you taking care of the history bit on your latest effort? To me, since this all game dev scene is taking years to build a product out you might as well have still photographers and making ofs crew just like the movie industry!!
Are you doing that? because, I want that super-edition Blue-Ray signed by you, ok!
Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for posting the video John. I still think the story of Id would make a great film.
im just reading “masters of doom” … that carmack sure was a heavy and disgusting guy…
incredible piece of history, for us geeks anyway, what it must have been like actually living this exciting live of game develeper knowing you had a mega-hit like doom on your hands – so romantic, seems like a big family, not like a dev. studio, some of my best memories are doom related, thanks for sharing this with us John
Joe Siegler… RIP 3D Realms…
3DRealms
1987..2009
R.I.P
is the whole 3d realms thing only a marketing gag? i can’t believe it…
Hey John, great video, absolutely love it.
I’m always interested in Id Software’s history and absolutely loved the gaming industry back then. When making a technological breakthrough was a exciting awe-inspiring feat and big deal unlike today.
Please, if you have any more material, please email me links. I would also love to download this video. Would love to see some footage with John Carmack as well.
I still have the original DOOM box made of cardboard, containing four stiffies and the manual.
I too would like to know what the music at the end is called and where I can get it, please?!
Awesome video, great memories. Thanks for posting it John
If you’ve got any more stuff like this please get it out there!
excelent video, Great!, thanks jhon
Fray
The song at the end is called “Doom Suite” by remixer Twilight Terror.
Awesome video of the gods at work
Thats great! Cool with footage from the office ^^.
Cheers from Sweden
Cool men thats some action was this on the Next machine?.
It’s a shame that there wasn’t more footage captured during that era of ID. Perhaps, if one looked closely, some of the original features in Doom could be restored using the Doom Builder program.
Doom is such a great game.
You should give us an alpha or beta version of doom, that would be AWESOME!
But that’s only a dream.
There are several versions of Doom on my site, including alphas and betas. Just do a web search for them.
Thanks for letting me know!