'Doom' developer reveals he's the model for the game's iconic poster
The cover of the original 1993 Doom game is iconic. After nearly 25 years, we finally know the model behind the famous Doomguy.
John Romero, one of the developers behind the classic first-person shooter Doom, revealed in a blog post that he's basically the model for the muscular Marine on the cover of Doom, illustrated by artist Don Ivan Punchatz.
Image: id software
Romero said that Punchatz came to the Id Software studio with a model and a camera in order to get a reference for the Doom cover, but the model just wasn't cutting it for Romero. Read more...
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