Masters of Doom
How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
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Narrated by:
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Wil Wheaton
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By:
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David Kushner
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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 produce the most notoriously successful game franchises in history - Doom and Quake - until the games they made tore them apart. 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.
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- Dave
- 07-06-16
Brilliant book
Finishes off just before the launch of Doom 3, this book covers the rise and fall of Id software and ionstorm. Really engaging and focuses on the people behind the projects. Prepare to google Carmacks reverse.
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- Amazon Customer
- 04-01-24
brilliant!!
will Wheaton does brilliantly as narrator ( even though I'm not a fan) and brings the book to life, this is a must read for gamers and people wanting to understand a massively important step in cultural history
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- Amazon Customer
- 05-04-24
A Blast from the past
I like how the narator really brought out IDs rockstar attitude whenever he quoted John Ramero
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- Amazon Customer
- 10-12-13
If you grew up with Doom you'll like this.
This is an interesting listen, if you grew up playing Wolfenstein and Doom covering everything from the first Commander Keen game to Quake. If you are not into computer games then this is probably not for you.
The narration is a little cutesy sometimes, and I didn't really like the impressions of the iD guys. However it was interesting enough to keep me listening.
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- Olivier
- 04-09-12
A Great Human and Technological Saga
"Masters of Doom" is yet another tale of 2 buddies starting an IT company that shook the world (Bill Gates/Steve Allen, Steve Jobs/Steve Wozniak, Larry Page/Sergey Brin, ...).
Having read biographies of all the pairs mentioned above, why did I bother to read yet another biography ? Because, each of these is a different story, and when well written (and read) these are engrossing human sagas that also place our modern technological world in context.
"Masters of Doom" has it all.
The pair of characters that it follows are anything but boring, and the text does a great job of bringing their character and idisyncracies to life (and Wil Wheaton's reading is excellent). If you have any interest in technology (not necessarily computer games, which I do not play) then this is a sure winner.
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- Michal Tomcany
- 15-01-18
Very insightful
As game dev this is a must read! More to the fact that ppl in this book are still alive and part of the industry even today.
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- Sándor Ádám
- 25-03-21
Amazing story and book
Personal drama, building an amazing business, birth of a new subculture. This book has it all and it's amazingly will written too. Someone should be making a movie about this right now.
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- kermit1986
- 23-11-19
Great ride!
Excellent book from end to end.
No matter how schooled you might be as a retro gamer or video game nerd, there’ll still be a lot to learn from times gone by throughout this book.
The stories from the early days in game development are always the best, and this one is certainly charting high for entertainment.
Really well read by Will Wheaton too for an added layer to the delivery of this tale.
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- Bill Smyth
- 23-05-15
Fascinating tale of two geniuses
Great book and a must for all video game fans interested in the mediums history.
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- Liam
- 15-09-13
Great story really well read
As ever Will Wheaton delivers with a great telling of a fascinating story.
Anyone of an age to remember the early days of video games will really enjoy the roller coaster ride of ID.
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