A Visit To id Software Circa 1993

By Alex Johnson | October 12, 2025

John ufa747 Romero takes us back to the early formative days of id Software, way back to November 1993, about a month before the release of the original Doom.

It was a time of mullets, when CRT monitors dominated, when Shiny’s Aladdin for the Sega Genesis and Bram Stoker’s Dracula for MS-DOS captured the imaginations of the id Software staff. It was also before Doom was 100% complete, with John Romero shown pay69 playing a version of the first-person shooter before the majority of the ufa888 public had a chance to see the game in action.

The video follows…

A Visit to id Software [Vimeo]

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