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By David Kushner
Masters of Doom is the superb precise tale of the Lennon and McCartney of games: John Carmack and John Romero. jointly, they governed titanic enterprise. They remodeled pop culture. and so they provoked a countrywide controversy. greater than something, they lived a special and rollicking American Dream, escaping the damaged houses in their adolescence to co-create the main notoriously profitable online game franchises in history--Doom and Quake--until the video games they made tore them apart.
Americans spend extra money on games than on motion picture tickets. Masters of Doom is the 1st booklet to chronicle this industry's maximum tale, written via one of many medium's best observers. David Kushner takes readers contained in the rags-to-riches event of 2 rebellious marketers who got here of age to form a iteration. The vibrant portrait unearths why their video games are so violent and why their immersion of their brilliantly designed delusion worlds provided them solace. And it indicates how they channeled their fury and mind's eye into items which are a formative effect on our tradition, from MTV to the net to Columbine. it is 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 artistic.
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