An Ion Storm!, Part 2: The Return to Ground Level

Stevie Case and John Romero early in their courtship. This article tells part of the story of John Romero. Note that there is a sexually suggestive image below that may be Not Safe For Work! In the badlands of what used to be Texas, rumor has it that John Romero has thrown himself out the window of Ion Storm’s penthouse offices. Apparently Romero had finally finished Daikatana, only to have the Y2K bug destroy the gaming rigs of the world mere seconds later, thus rendering the last three years of Romero’s life terribly, terribly moot. — Computer Gaming World, January 2000 issue When Stevana “Stevie” Case arrived for her freshman year at the University of Nebraska in 1996, her conception of digital games was limited to the likes of Super Mario Bros. The daughter of a science professor, she had grown up in Kansas in comfortable middle-class surroundings, a precocious overachiever who told her family early on that her goal in life was to become the first female president of the United…