Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and

Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture

â€œTo my taste, the greatest American myth of cosmogenesis features the maladjusted, antisocial, genius teenage boy who, in the insular laboratory of his own bedroom, invents the universe from scratch. Masters of Doom is a particularly inspired rendition. Dave Kushner chronicles the saga of video game virtuosi Carmack and Romero with terrific brio. This is a page-turning, mythopoeic cyber-soap opera about two glamorous geek geniusesâ€”and it should be read while scarfing down pepperoni pizza and swilling Diet Coke, with Queens of the Stone Age cranked up all the way.â€ â€”Mark Leyner, author of I Smell Esther Williams

Masters of Doom is the amazing true story of the Lennon and McCartney of video games: John Carmack and John Romero. Together, they ruled big business. They transformed popular culture. And they provoked a national controversy. More than anything, they lived a unique and rollicking American Dream, escaping the broken homes of their youth to co-create the most notoriously successful game franchises in historyâ€”Doom and Quakeâ€”until the games they made tore them apart.

Americans spend more money on video games than on movie tickets. Masters of Doom is the first book to chronicle this industryâ€™s greatest story, written by one of the mediumâ€™s leading observers. David Kushner takes readers inside the rags-to-riches adventure of two rebellious entrepreneurs who came of age to shape a generation. The vivid portrait reveals why their games are so violent and why their immersion in their brilliantly designed fantasy worlds offered them solace. And it shows how they channeled their fury and imagination into products that are a formative influence on our culture, from MTV to the Internet to Columbine. This is a story of friendship and betrayal, commerce and artistryâ€”a powerful and compassionate account of what itâ€™s like to be young, driven, and wildly creative.

From the Hardcover edition.
Country USA
Manufacturer Random House
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2003-04-24
Format Kindle eBook
EANs 9781588362896

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Random House
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2003-04-24
Format	Kindle eBook
EANs	9781588362896

Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture

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