Masters Of Doom: How two guys created an empire and transformed pop culture

by David Kushner

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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.

  • ISBN10 0749924896
  • ISBN13 9780749924898
  • Publish Date 27 May 2004 (first published 1 January 2003)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
  • Imprint Piatkus Books
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 352
  • Language English