Doom designer John Romero could have been "System Shock designer John Romero," but the FPS legend got the offer to set up id Software "the week before" another offer to set up what would become Looking Glass

System Shock Remake.

Doom designer John Romero has revealed that he almost co-founded another iconic studio instead of id Software, and we may have been calling him "System Shock designer John Romero" in another world.

1993 and 1994 would prove to be extremely important to the PC gaming landscape as two titles that would go on to define their genres dropped. I don't need to tell you the effect id Software's Doom had on the first person shooter genre, but then the next year LookingGlass Technologies' System Shock arrived and laid the foundation for the immersive sim that its sequel would then properly define (much like Doom did to Wolfenstein 3D's foundation).