A Yelp business listing already exists for id Software. Guess I'll be the first to review. id (the "id" is lowercase) was founded in 1991 by famous computer programmers John Carmack and John Romero, plus two coworkers, and is headquartered Richardson, Texas, an affluent suburb of Dallas. This company was instrumental to the games industry. They developed Wolfenstein, Doom, and Quake and popularized the first-person shooter (FPS) genre. I played the original installments of all three of these franchises on PC. I also played Commander Keen. I still remember spending the night at my friend Greg's house and playing Wolfenstein 3D (1992) for the first time. This was before the days of the internet so everyone knew about this game through word of mouth and computer magazines. It was incredibly popular. We hadn't seen anything like it, both on a visual level (full 360-degree first-person perspective) and on a violence level (blood). This was around the same time Mortal Kombat started appearing in arcades, but it didn't show up on home consoles until about a year later. In Wolfenstein 3D, you kill Nazis and eventually Hitler. Gun violence, swastikas, Nazis, Hitler... a great game for kids! As elementary school children, the swastikas didn't really register with us. From movies like Raiders of the Lost Ark, I simply knew Nazis and Hitler were bad. I admit I obtained bootlegged copies of Doom and Quake from overseas (Asia). Doom (1993) and Quake (1996) upped the ante. Better gameplay, weapons, graphics, sound effects, and music. More gore, more intensity. In Doom, you fight demons, ghoul-looking creatures, zombies, etc. In Quake, you fight monsters. Doom introduced the BFG a.k.a. the Big F***ing Gun. Many incarnations of the BFG have been used in various Doom and Quake versions since. I played Doom multiplayer with my friends using dial-up internet. The multiplayer was actually pretty decent with little to no lag. It was a lot of fun. I also played the Super Nintendo versions of Wolfenstein 3D and Doom, but preferred the PC versions because of the keyboard and mouse controls. On the keyboard, keys W and S are used move forward and back, and keys A and D are used to strafe left and right. The mouse controlled which direction to look. While a keyboard wasn't designed to be played with FPS games, the "WASD" control scheme turned out to be very effective and is still in use today. I never got good at FPS games except for Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II (1997) where I owned almost everyone I played on the Internet Gaming Zone (now known as MSN Games). id Software's games have spawned numerous sequels, spin-offs, and even books and movies. Doom the movie came out in 2005 starring Karl Urban and "The Rock" Dwayne Johnson. Every year since 1996, QuakeCon has been held in Dallas. QuakeCon is pretty much an id Software gaming convention. They have a giant LAN party, game tournaments, and crown at least one champion each year. read more