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JOHN CARMACK INDUCTED INTO AIAS HALL OF FAME
id Software's Legendary Programmer Honored for Groundbreaking Graphics Engines, Including
DOOM®, QUAKE®, and QUAKE III ArenaTM
SAN JOSE, Calif. - March 23, 2001 - John Carmack, co-founder, co-owner and technical director of
id SoftwareTM, was inducted into the Academy of Interactive Arts
and Sciences (AIAS) Hall of Fame Thursday night, honoring his pioneering contributions to interactive entertainment.
Carmack is best known for shaking the video game world in 1992 with the original first person shooter,
Wolfenstein 3D®. Released in 1994, DOOM further advanced
the first person shooter and took the world by storm, leading players through an eerie and frightening
journey to hell and back. Carmack left the industry in awe in 1996 when he created the first true 3-D
environment for QUAKE. And he pushed the envelope of 3-D gaming again in 1999 by introducing the most
technically advanced 3-D engine available in QUAKE III Arena.
Carmack joins past inductees Shigeru Miyamoto, Nintendo (1998), creator of Legend of Zelda and Donkey Kong;
Sid Meier, Firaxis Games (1999), who developed Civilization; and Hironobu Sakaguchi, Square USA (2000), creator
of the Final Fantasy series. Sakaguchi presented the award to Carmack at Thursday's ceremony.
"From Wolfenstein 3D to QUAKE III Arena, John has irreversibly altered the way we think
about video game technology," Adrian Carmack, artist, co-founder and co-owner, id Software said.
"His induction in the AIAS Hall of Fame is a tribute to his hard work, dedication, and ingenuity.
Everyone at id offers their sincerest congratulations.
Carmack's breakthroughs are renowned throughout the gaming and technology industries. His graphics engines
are widely considered the world's most technically astounding and visually beautiful. Each of the games id
has built on his engines have received "Game of the Year" awards and his multiplayer and Internet gaming
innovations have been honored several times over. Carmack's QUAKE III Arena engine won accolades from
industry press as the best graphics technology of the year in 1999 and again in 2000.
In February 2001, id Software again made the video game world stand still when Carmack unveiled a demo of
the work created using his newest engine technology at MacWorld, Tokyo.
About id Software
id - Freud's primal part of the human psyche and one of the hottest game shops on Earth - has been rocking
the gaming world from Mesquite, Texas since 1991. As a renowned leader in the industry, id Software forged
such frenetic titles as Wolfenstein 3D®, DOOM®,
DOOM IITM, QUAKE® and QUAKE II
TM. With intense graphics and mind-blowing action, id's games continually
break retail and shareware sales records. And, in keeping with tradition, id Software has amplified the world
of adrenaline pumping 3-D gaming with the release of their latest action titles, QUAKE III Arena and
QUAKE III: Team ArenaTM. id's advanced QUAKE III Arena engine is leading
the next revolution in 3-D interactive games with both single and multiplayer technology. Check out more about
id Software at www.idsoftware.com.
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QUAKE® are registered trademarks of Id Software, Inc.
in the United States. Commander Keen™, QUAKE IITM,
QUAKE III ArenaTM, Quake III: Team ArenaTM,
Return to Castle WolfensteinTM and the
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