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

Author: David Kushner Year: 2003 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Biographies, History, Business Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780812972153 0812972155

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 produce the most notoriously successful game franchises in history - Doom and Quake - until the games they made tore them apart. This is a story of friendship and betrayal, commerce and artistry - a powerful and compassionate account of what it's like to be young, driven, and wildly creative. Similar books: Blood, Sweat, and Pixels by Jason Schreier Dungeons and Dreamers by Brad King Wolf Boys by Dan Slater Gumption by Nick Offerman The Ultimate History of Video Games by Steven L. Kent All Your Base Are Belong to Us by Harold Goldberg Extra Lives by Tom Bissell Stalling for Time by Gary Noesner Console Wars by Blake J. Harris Super Mario by Jeff Ryan The Strange Case of Dr. Couney by Dawn Raffel The White Darkness by David Grann Replay by Tristan Donovan Bygone Badass Broads by Mackenzi Lee The Man in the Rockefeller Suit by Mark Seal American Icon by Bryce G. Hoffman Titan by Ron Chernow Bitter Brew by William Knoedelseder The Warburgs by Ron Chernow Hatching Twitter by Nick Bilton