![]() ![]() And it shows how they channeled their fury and imagination into products that are a formative influence on our culture, from MTV to the Internet to Columbine. The vivid portrait reveals why their games are so violent and why their immersion in their brilliantly designed fantasy worlds offered them solace. ![]() ![]() David Kushner takes readers inside the rags-to-riches adventure of two rebellious entrepreneurs who came of age to shape a generation. Masters of Doom is the first book to chronicle this industry’s greatest story, written by one of the medium’s leading observers. More than anything, they lived a unique and rollicking American Dream, escaping the broken homes of their youth to co-create the most notoriously successful game franchises in history-Doom and Quake-until the games they made tore them apart.Īmericans spend more money on video games than on movie tickets. And they provoked a national controversy. Masters of Doom is the amazing true story of the Lennon and McCartney of video games: John Carmack and John Romero. ![]()
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