Romero. I don't get why anyone would vote for xbox professional troll instead of guy that was part of development team that mades several titles which shaped gaming to what it is today.

John Romero by a mile.

Any employee of iD automatically wins.

John Romero.

Oh please... Is this even a vote? iD's coffee machine would win against Major Nelson.

John Romero.

John... he banged Stevie Case

John Romero.

Next round looks interesting.

You can vote as you want, but the thread says it's a vote for the greatest icon :P

Major Nelson is a footnote in gaming history, at best.

John Romero

And I care why?

I like Major Nelson, thus I vote for him.  I could care less what anyone else's opinion is on this kind of thing.  I vote for people I like.  I'm not arguing Romero had done more, but he doesn't get my vote.

Not to mention if you want to talk about "icon's" in the strictest sense I can 100% guarantee you Nelson is FAR more recognized by the gaming community as a whole.  Only core's have any idea who Romero is while virtually every person who has ever played an Xbox or checks the internet knows who Nelson is.

So actually define what you mean by icon cause if this was a much broader poll for all gamers to vote I can guarantee you Nelson wins by a landslide.

As I said, you can vote as you want (that's why it's called voting).

I play the Xbox 360 and (obviously) read internet gaming forums and I had little idea who "Major Nelson" was or what he did until I read this thread. I knew he had something to do with Microsoft and that was it. But maybe I'm an exception.

In any case the reasoning for my vote is that Romero has done a lot for gaming by founding and working for one of the most iconic studios in PC gaming. That counts much more than being an internet personality / blogger or working on one mediocre gaming platform...