{"id":170715,"date":"2021-01-18T16:47:01","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T16:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gamerant.com\/doom-creator-selling-destroyed-keyboard-raging-quake\/"},"modified":"2021-01-18T16:47:01","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T16:47:01","slug":"doom-creator-selling-keyboard-he-destroyed-while-raging-at-quake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2021\/01\/18\/doom-creator-selling-keyboard-he-destroyed-while-raging-at-quake\/","title":{"rendered":"Doom Creator Selling Keyboard He Destroyed While Raging At Quake"},"content":{"rendered":"

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At a certain point in\u00a0Doom\u00a0<\/em>creator John Romero<\/a>‘s life, he waged a battle with a Mac keyboard while playing a multiplayer match in his own first-person shooter game,\u00a0Quake.\u00a0<\/em>Now he has listed that Mac keyboard on eBay for anyone to bid on, and by the looks of it, it’s safe to say that the keyboard lost the fight.<\/p>\n

John Romero’s first big success as a game designer was with company idSoftware, where he worked with a team to produce the original\u00a0Doom.\u00a0<\/em>A fast-paced and bloody first-person shooter,\u00a0Doom\u00a0<\/em>became a hit with gamers who wanted an intense shooter experience and that led to idSoftware producing a sequel,\u00a0Doom 2.\u00a0<\/em>After\u00a0Doom 2,<\/em> idSoftware built upon the\u00a0success of the\u00a0Doom\u00a0<\/em>series with another hardcore first-person shooter,\u00a0Quake,<\/em>\u00a0complete with a soundtrack by industrial metal band Nine Inch Nails<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em>It was in a\u00a0Quake\u00a0<\/em>Deathmatch specifically that John Romero would ultimately decide his Mac keyboard was no longer serving him well, and the result of the keyboard’s demise has turned into a fun piece of memorabilia.<\/p>\n

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The keyboard is listed on eBay with the seller notes “destroyed.” John Romero claims in the comments of his listing that his rage is usually directed toward inanimate objects around him, though not usually the keyboard as it is “critical to actually Deathmatching”. The pictures of the\u00a0Quake<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>casualty keyboard tell a pretty vivid story. Keys are completely out of their sockets (one can imagine some fist smashing probably led to this) and the sandwich shape is not exactly the optimal layout for fast-reflex play.<\/p>\n