Guess Who The Original DOOM Guy Is Based On?

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Many of us were enamoured by the kick-ass marine on the front of the original DOOM game’s box art (the helmeted, devil-blasting “Doomguy”). It has finally been revealed (after nearly 25 years) who the legendary DOOM Guy on the cover is based on.

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The Marine on the original classic first-person shooter’s box art (illustrated by artist Don Ivan Punchatz) was based on none other than the game’s co-creator John Romero. Who would have guessed that one of the most iconic box-art images out there would be inspired by the designer, programmer, and developer? 

Apparently, while trying to get the original model for the box art to perform the correct pose in the Id Software studio, Mr Romero decided to take the matter into his own hands and took off his shirt, grabbed the toy gun and struck the now iconic pose.

Romero recounts the events in his own personal blog.

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“Don Punchatz, the illustrator who created the DOOM logo and the famous front box cover art came over to id in mid-1993 with a male body model. Don brought a nice camera to take pictures. The model’s job was to strike various poses for the marine who would be on the cover of the box.

This scene took place in the art room where Adrian and Kevin spent their days creating the STARTAN tech base texture set, clay modeling characters, digitizing them with the NeXTCube workstation, scanning hospital slides for bloody walls, and listening to the screams from the dentist’s office next door.

The body model took his shirt off and started posing with our plasma gun toy. Don asked us for suggestions so I started telling him that the Marine was going to be attacked by an