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3311978Masters of Doomhttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/masters-of-doom-9781588362896/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/2787431/693c69f4-6bea-4b1f-b179-7c7319200973.jpg?v=638384452088170000https://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/2785702/693c69f4-6bea-4b1f-b179-7c7319200973.jpg?v=638384449906800000269374MXNRandom House Publishing GroupInStock/Ebooks/<p><strong><em>Masters of Doom</em> 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 historyDoom and Quakeuntil the games they made tore them apart.</strong></p><p>Americans spend more money on video games than on movie tickets. <em>Masters of Doom</em> is the first book to chronicle this industrys greatest story, written by one of the mediums 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 artistrya powerful and compassionate account of what its like to be young, driven, and wildly creative.</p><p><strong>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. <em>Masters of Doom</em> 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 geniusesand 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 <em>I Smell Esther Williams</em></strong></p>...3248057Masters of Doom269374https://www.gandhi.com.mx/masters-of-doom-9781588362896/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/2787431/693c69f4-6bea-4b1f-b179-7c7319200973.jpg?v=638384452088170000https://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/2785702/693c69f4-6bea-4b1f-b179-7c7319200973.jpg?v=638384449906800000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20039781588362896_W3siaWQiOiI3YjdlNjFhNS1iZjNmLTQ0OTItOGU5Ni02OGJlMjhiZmViOWMiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjM1MCwiZGlzY291bnQiOjk4LCJzZWxsaW5nUHJpY2UiOjI1MiwiaW5jbHVkZXNUYXgiOnRydWUsInByaWNlVHlwZSI6Ildob2xlc2FsZSIsImN1cnJlbmN5IjoiTVhOIiwiZnJvbSI6IjIwMjUtMDItMDVUMDg6MDA6MDBaIiwicmVnaW9uIjoiTVgiLCJpc1ByZW9yZGVyIjpmYWxzZX1d9781588362896_<p><strong><em>Masters of Doom</em> 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 historyDoom and Quakeuntil the games they made tore them apart.</strong></p><p>Americans spend more money on video games than on movie tickets. <em>Masters of Doom</em> is the first book to chronicle this industrys greatest story, written by one of the mediums 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 artistrya powerful and compassionate account of what its like to be young, driven, and wildly creative.</p><p><strong>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. <em>Masters of Doom</em> 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 geniusesand 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 <em>I Smell Esther Williams</em></strong></p>...9781588362896_Random House Publishing Grouplibro_electonico_eecbe557-55e0-406f-8e72-ca6eadf9d3f5_9781588362896;9781588362896_9781588362896David KushnerInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/RandomHouse-epub-51398cd9-d88e-4596-98ff-2431c378543e.epub2003-04-24T00:00:00+00:00Random House Publishing Group