7. John Romero: ''The is one of the "legendary" letters that Scott Miller (CEO of 3D Realms; back then Apogee Software) wrote me trying to get me to contact him so we could work together. You'll see he changed his name at the end of the letter because he was paranoid that Softdisk would be screening all mail that was delivered to their employees to prevent poaching. The reason Scott wanted to contact me is because he saw my PC game Pyramids of Egypt (which was a conversion from the 1985 Apple // version) published on Big Blue Disk and wanted to know if I would do a derivative of that game for him to publish. He wrote a few more of these kinds of crazy letters before I contacted him (one of them said, "Please write back! I'm 65 years old!" LOL!)''
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79. Steven Blackburn (Beta Tester) hard at work Tom Hall (as El Oscuro) printout of all the graphics/sound files used in Rise of the triad stretched out in the hallway. William Scarboro and the Excalibat
80. John Romero and Shawn Green Headbanging to Alice in Chains, Black Sabbath, Judas, and Dokken The office door is the one Carmack blasted open with his axe Softdisk offices
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