Masters Of Doom: How Two Guys Created An Empire And by David Kushner

By David Kushner

Masters of Doom is the superb actual tale of the Lennon and McCartney of games: John Carmack and John Romero. jointly, they governed tremendous company. They reworked pop culture. and so they provoked a countrywide controversy. greater than whatever, they lived a different and rollicking American Dream, escaping the damaged houses in their early life to supply the main notoriously winning video game franchises in history—Doom and Quake— till the video games they made tore them aside. this can be a tale of friendship and betrayal, trade and artistry—a strong and compassionate account of what it's prefer to be younger, pushed, and wildly inventive.

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