Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture

Masters of Doom

How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture

2003 • 360 pages

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One of the first computer games I ever played was Wolfenstein 3D on my moms Packard Bell 386 computer. Eventually I also played Doom on it as well. At the time I didn't realize what was behind those games. Masters is more a biography of John Carmack and John Romero - the technical and design talent behind these games and id software.

It's crazy to me how this company got started – “borrowing” computers from their day job to program on them at night and eventually release Wolfenstein. The small group of guys working in their house part time ended up impacting the world of video games as much as anyone else has, and this is the rise and fall of that empire.

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