Masters of Doom is the amazing true story of the Lennon and McCartney of video games: John Carmack and John Romero.
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..
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.
And they provoked a national controversy.
They Transformed popular culture.
Together, they ruled big business.
Masters of Doom is the amazing true story of the Lennon and McCartney of video games: John Carmack and John Romero
