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I noticed Romero has been selling a lot of his gaming collection in eBay the past year.

Along with this Sigil release, it makes me think he's struggling a bit, I hope not.

Still a cool concept, I miss games that come with packaging and games.




The husband of noted game developer Brenda Romero is doing fine. By all accounts, he is selling his old treasures mostly for nostalgia reasons. He has fond memories of those times developing Doom and he wants to share those pieces of gaming history. Plus at a certain age you just realize that you have stuff cluttering up your attic which is doing you no good but still has value to others.

His company Romero Games Ltd. has had at least one big hit in recent years, Gunman Taco Truck, which by all accounts made a nice little profit. I believe he also occasionally lectures in Ireland on game design.

From everything I gather, John is happy, healthy and wealthy enough to be able to devote the odd few hours to a passion project which is dear to his heart. He loves Doom something fierce and given both the impact it had on society and the period of his life developing it took place it, it is hard imagine how he wouldn’t have it occupy a special place.


Reading the Q&A on the page, it seems like this is something he worked on in free-time:

>Q: How long did it take you to create Sigil?

>A: I worked on it part time during 2017 and 2018, mostly while I was on vacation or in the evenings. I wanted to have a surprise for DOOM’s 25th anniversary.

If he is downplaying a need for income, then he definitely is masking it well. It seems like it's just a labor of love.


>Along with this Sigil release, it makes me think he's struggling a bit, I hope not.

You can check his auctions for prints and he says there that the funds are going towards a Game Design museum he's trying to build in Ireland.


Mid life crisis?

Not meant as an insult.

I assume he's had all the sports cars etc, so he cant really reach for those.




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