John Romero Net Worth 2024, Age, Height, Wife, Bio-Wiki

John Romero Bio-Wiki

Alfonso John Romero, professionally known as John Romero, is an American director, programmer, designer, and developer who has made a name for himself in the video gaming industry. As of September 2024, John Romero Net Worth is $3 million. He spent two decades in the computer gaming industry and made a very successful and rewarding career. John is best known as the co-founder of ID software, and the designer of several games, including Wolfenstein 3D, Hexen Dome, Dangerous Dave, Doom II, and Earthquake.

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Personal Information:

Full Name:	Alfonso John Romero
Date of birth:	October 28, 1967
Marital Status:	Married
Birthplace:	Colorado Springs, Colorado, U.S.
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Video Game Designer, Video Game Programmer
Net Worth:	$3 Million (Approx.)
Wife/Spouse(Name):	Kelly Mitchell, (m. 1987; div. 1989), Elizabeth Ann McCall, (m. 1990; div. 1998), Raluca Alexandra Plesca, (m. 2004; div. 2011), Brenda Romero (m. 2012)
Children/Kids:	Yes (Michael, Steven, and Antoinette)
John Romero Height:	5 ft 8 inches
John Romero Weight:	75 Kg

Early Life

Romero was born and raised in Colorado Springs, USA. He is of Yaqui, Cherokee, and Mexican heritage. He was born to a mother named Guinea and his father’s name was Alfonso Antonio Romero. They have an ethnic marriage.

When John was young, he was addicted to video games. An arcade game called Space Invaders (1978) and a maze named PACMAN (1980) followed the arcade game that made him more interested in video games. These were two games that significantly influenced his childhood and made him think about designing video games.

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Nasir Gebelli has been his favorite programmer who impressed him a lot. Some of the other programmers who influenced her childhood were Bill Bud and Shigeru Miyamoto. In January 2004, John Romero married Raluca Alexandra from Bucharest, Rome.

John and Raluka divorced in 2011 after seven years of marriage. John later got engaged to game developer Brenda Brathwaite on March 24, 2012. The couple tied the knot on October 27, 2012. They worked together at the Ravenwood Fair, where Romero served as lead designer and his wife Brathwaite as a game designer, and creative director.

The couple founded a social game development firm called LootDrop in November 2010. Later, he began working on Ghost Reckon Commander, and Cloud Forest Expedition. John Romero has had three children from two previous marriages: Michael (1988), Steven (1989), and Leillia Antoinette (1998).

Professional Life

John Romero began his career in video gaming programming on the Apple II in 1980. His first video game, Scout Search, appeared in the 1984 issue of Insider Magazine. His first firm, Capitol Ideas Software, became a developer in at least twelve published games. Romero published another video game, Jumpster, Uptime in 1987.

After programming for eight years, Romero got his first industry job at Origin Systems in 1987. He left the firm and found a game firm with software inside. John, along with a friend and business partner, Lane Roidz, founded a company called “Deep Thoughts.” He wrote different versions of the Zappa Roidz game for different platforms, including PC, Apple IIGS, and Apple II.

From 1991 to 1996, Romero began working on ID software and created several landmark games, including Wolfenstein 3D, Commander Kane, Dom II: Hell on Earth, Earthquake, and Doom.

He also served as Game Designer and Executive Producer at Heretic and Hexen. He wrote many game development tools in-game software that was used for game development. These games include DomEd, Coke Aid, DM, Dwango OuakeEd, TED5, and IGRAB.