{"product_id":"masters-of-doom-9780812972153","title":"Masters of Doom","description":"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 co-create the most notoriously successful game franchises  in history—Doom and Quake—until the games they made tore them apart. Americans spend  more money on video games than on movie tickets. Masters of Doom is the first book  to chronicle this industry’s greatest story, written by one of the medium’s leading  observers. David Kushner takes readers inside the rags-to-riches adventure of two  rebellious entrepreneurs who came of age to shape a generation. The vivid portrait  reveals why their games are so violent and why their immersion in their brilliantly  designed fantasy worlds offered them solace. 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. 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. “To my taste, the greatest American myth of cosmogenesis features the maladjusted, antisocial, genius teenage boy who, in the insular laboratory of his own bedroom, invents the universe from scratch. Masters of Doom is a particularly inspired rendition. Dave Kushner chronicles the saga of video game virtuosi Carmack and Romero with terrific brio. This is a page-turning, mythopoeic cyber-soap opera about two glamorous geek geniuses—and it should be read while scarfing down pepperoni pizza and swilling Diet Coke, with Queens of the Stone Age cranked up all the way.”—Mark Leyner, author of I Smell Esther Williams\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePage Count:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize (in inches):\u003c\/b\u003e 5.19 x 8.00\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize (in cm):\u003c\/b\u003e 13.18 x 20.32\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGenre:\u003c\/b\u003e Biography \u0026amp; Autobiography - Business\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCreator(s):\u003c\/b\u003e (W) David Kushner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOn-Sale Date:\u003c\/b\u003e May 11, 2004","brand":"Random House Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56999866892553,"sku":"9780812972153","price":16.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0403\/3514\/7159\/files\/9780812972153.jpg?v=1776263193","url":"https:\/\/waltscomicshop.com\/products\/masters-of-doom-9780812972153","provider":"Walt's Comic Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}