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He learned BASIC by writing a game, then kept finding new things the language could do and turning each into play. Text adventures taught him that a world can be built from words, and that every player action forces the programmer to decide the response by hand.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAssembly for the 6502 CPU in the Apple II let him write closer to the machine, and fast routines meant more could happen on screen. By the end of 1989 he had made 69 games and 19 tools, across maze games, platformers, side-scrolling shooters, and dungeon exploration. He said the count matters less than the number of different problems.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"John Romero's keynote title answers a question he traces through his own catalog, from a BASIC game to Apple II assembly to id Software. 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