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

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Masters of Doom is the amazing true story of the Lennonand McCartney of video games: John Carmack and John Romero. Together, they ruledbig business. They transformed popular culture. And they provoked a national than anything, they lived a unique and rollicking American Dream, escaping thebroken homes of their youth to co-create the most notoriously successful game franchisesin history—Doom and Quake—until the games they made tore them apart.

Americans spendmore money on video games than on movie tickets. Masters of Doom is the first bookto chronicle this industry’s greatest story, written by one of the medium’s leadingobservers. David Kushner takes readers inside the rags-to-riches adventure of tworebellious entrepreneurs who came of age to shape a generation. The vivid portraitreveals why their games are so violent and why their immersion in their brilliantlydesigned fantasy worlds offered them solace. And it shows how they channeled theirfury 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 artistry—a powerful and compassionate account of what it’s like to beyoung, driven, and wildly creative.

“To 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 geniuses—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.”—Mark Leyner, author of I Smell Esther Williams