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Comment by stevejohnson | Hacker News Reader

Does anyone have the source for the Romero quote on the third page?

    John Romero, co-creator of the game Doom, says Flappy Bird
    is "a reaction against prevailing design the way grunge 
    was a reaction to metal."

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Odd. I cannot find a source for it on Google, twitter, his personal site or facebook.

Perhaps the source is the article itself (i.e. he was contacted by the author)?

That's probably the case. The author of the article is David Kushner, writer of "Masters of Doom", so he probably knows Romero pretty well.

john romero is the source. the reporter called him, and got a quote.

i can't believe i'm explaining this to someone right now.

Its called journalism.

To the snarky replies in this comment subtree: that passage read as if it was referring to some other piece or statement by Romero, which I'd be interested in reading further if it existed. The comparison is apt.

Intuitively, this doesn't seem like a good way to quote someone you called up specifically for this article.

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