Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
by:
David Kushner (author)
Masters of Doom is the true inside story of the Lennon and McCartney of the video game industry: John Carmack and John Romero. Together they created an empire, ruled a multibillion-dollar industry, and provoked a national controversy. They lived a unique American dream, escaping their broken...
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Masters of Doom is the true inside story of the Lennon and McCartney of the video game industry: John Carmack and John Romero. Together they created an empire, ruled a multibillion-dollar industry, and provoked a national controversy. They lived a unique American dream, escaping their broken homes to co-create the most innovative and notoriously successful video games in history - Doom and Quake - until the games they made tore them apart. David Kushner has been covering the video game industry for ten years and knows all the angles. Even those with no interest in video games will be fascinated by this vastly entertaining tale of friendship, betrayal and the genesis of a multibillion-dollar popular art form.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780749924898 (0749924896)
Publish date: 2004
Publisher: Piatkus Books
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Biography,
History,
Computer Science,
Programming,
Science,
Technology,
Computers,
Games,
Business,
Sports And Games,
Gaming,
Video Games
A fun, fast paced, hard-to-put-down read that does a great job of telling the story of John Carmack, John Romero, and the groundbreaking games they created (Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Quake). By the time I was done, I had a massive desire to a) play games, b) play old school games like quake, and c) spen...
Me gusto. Pero creo que no es para todos. Si no te gustan los videojuegos mejor ni lo leas. Es divertido a ratos y muy técnicos a otros. Pero esta bien padre saber la historia de los dos johns.
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