We discuss ID Software, and the lasting effects of the company on the video game industry, and society as a whole. We delve into the ramifications of the tech industry in general, and coders specifically with perpetual crunch time. We go into a lot of different subjects tangential to the ID story. Ultimately realizing the lasting effect a group of guys taking advantage of potentially one of the last times an independent developer could make it alone in the AAA space.

Catacomb 3D: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5MzKdjIaPU
Ultima Underworld: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozeydDiCHws
Chiller: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvvTh3cU8Ms
Doom with John Romero: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUU7_BthBWM
Visit to ID Software 1993: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpEBUV_g9vU
Bill Gates Doom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiX9dEmXwso
You and Your Work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEBizJWOoVM

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Intro Music: E1M1 by Bobby Prince, and remixed by Michael Massay - http://www.doomworld.com/classicdoom/info/music.php
Outro Music: RolemMusic - Bacterial Love - http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Rolemusic/Pop_Singles_Compilation_2014/01_rolemusic_-_bacterial_love

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