A lot of the time, John Romero (thinking he could make everyone his bitch) was often painted as the Steve Jobs to John Carmack's Woz. Carmack really had most of

A lot of the time, John Romero (thinking he could make everyone his bitch) was often painted as the Steve Jobs to John Carmack's Woz. Carmack really had most of the technical talent but little of the personality or boisterousness to properly market id's games. Romero on the other hand started off as the nerdy kid who got popular and kinda let it get to his head. He's way more humble now and I still think he's a cool guy but, even back then, magazines and media were always trying to portray them as allegories to other tech figures when they really weren't much like them at all.