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Subject: id releases a press release concerning John Romero's departure
Date: 12 Aug 1996 15:07:17 +0100
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DERIVED DIRECTLY FROM IDSOFTWARES PRESS RELEASE PAGE :

id Software's John Romero to Start New Computer Gaming Company 

Mesquite, TX, August 8, 1996 -- id Software, developers of the hit computer 
games DOOM and QUAKE, announced today that co-owner and game designer
John Romero will be leaving the company in an amicable split. Romero, who has 
been with id Software since the company was founded in February 1991, plans to
start his own game company, tentatively named Dream Design.

"John has been intergral to the incredible growth and notoriety of id 
Software," said Jay Wilbur, id Software's biz guy. "We wish him the best of 
luck and can't wait
to see his creations."

According to Romero, "This new venture will allow me to focus on different 
types of games in addition to the first-person action genre. id has the most 
powerful 3D
technology in the industry and I will definitely be licensing it. I plan on 
working with id first as a licensing partner; perhaps more in the future. I 
wish id well and will
miss working with all my friends and partners." 

id Software, founded in 1991, is a software development company located in 
Mesquite, Texas. id's team of talented developers continue to make gaming 
history by
creating and publishing one sensational action game after another. Wolfenstein 
3D, DOOM, DOOM II, Heretic, HEXEN and QUAKE have created a frenzied
demand worldwide and have managed to consistently break shareware and retail 
sales records at home and abroad

NOTE: More information available through Lori Mezoff at Technology Solutions, 
Inc. (212-696-2000, ext. 202 or lmezoff@tsipr.com) 

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