DOOM GUY
John Romero is the co-creator of the most influential modern videogames franchise, Doom. But his story has a gritty start. He grew up in a young part-Mexican, part-Yaqui family with a violent father and uncles who ran drugs. His precocious talent gave him an escape route into computing, and by the age of 15, he was coding for the USAF in Cambridgeshire.