Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture is a book by David Kushner about id Software and its influence on popular culture, focusing chiefly on John Romero and John Carmack. Adopting a novel-like narrative, Kushner chronicles the lives of both men from childhood through the early successes of id Software through the new heights the company reached with Doom, to their separation as developers after Quake.

Kushner was an early entrant into the field of video-game journalism, and recycled some of his own original reporting in the book.

A budget film based on this book is currently in production.[1]

Contents 1 Editions 2 See also 3 Sources 4 External links

EditionsEdit

• Hardcover: released on May 6, 2003 - 352 pages - ISBN 0375505245
• Paperback: released on May 11, 2004 - 368 pages - ISBN 0812972155
• Audiobook: released on May 15, 2012 - 12h 45m - Available through Audiobooks.com

See also Edit

• Masters of Doom: The Animated Series

Sources Edit

• This article incorporates text from the open-content Wikipedia online encyclopedia article Masters of Doom.

External links Edit

• Home site of David Kushner.
• Masters of Doom page by the publishers.
• Masters of Doom audiobook page by the audiobook publisher
• First chapter of the audiobook on YouTube
• Rare Bill Gates Doom video, mentioned in the Judgement Day chapter of the book
• Report of possible film adaptation, at eurogamer.net.
• Masters of Doom on Amazon (Hardcover)
• Masters of Doom on Amazon (Paperback)