Short answers, pulled from the story.
Alfonso John Romero was born on the 28th of October 1967 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He entered the world six weeks premature after his parents traveled from Tucson, Arizona to find more tolerant surroundings for their interracial relationship.
John Romero found major inspiration from Namco's Pac-Man released in 1980 which introduced him to game design as a profession. His development style also drew influence from titles like Horizon V from 1981 and Zenith from 1982 created by Nasir Gebelli alongside Shigeru Miyamoto's Super Mario games.
John Romero resigned from id Software in 1996 following clashes with co-founder John Carmack over the future direction of Quake. Tensions escalated when Carmack accused Romero of not working enough during the crunch effort required to finish the game despite their long friendship.
John Romero faced public backlash due to a 1997 advertisement that read About To Make You His Bitch Suck it down while promoting the game announced for Christmas shopping season. The project suffered repeated delays until its April 2000 release date and received poor reviews appearing on numerous top ten worst games listings.
John Romero co-founded Ion Storm in Dallas, Texas with Tom Hall before establishing Monkeystone Games in July 2001 to develop mobile device games. He later opened Slipgate Ironworks studio in 2005 and established Romero Games with his wife Brenda Romero on the 11th of August 2015.