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Masters of Doom How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop 1st Ed
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A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including scuff marks, but no holes or tears. The dust jacket for hard covers may not be included. Binding has minimal wear. The majority of pages are undamaged with minimal creasing or tearing, minimal pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages. See the seller’s listing for full details and description of any imperfections.
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Product Group
- Book
- Edition
- First Edition
- Weight
- 1 lbs
- IsTextBook
- No
- ISBN
- 9780375505249
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0375505245
ISBN-13
9780375505249
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2267020
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Masters of Doom : How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
Subject
Programming / Games, Industries / Computers & Information Technology, General
Publication Year
2003
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Computers, Biography & Autobiography, Business & Economics
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
21.5 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2002-026598
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
794.8/0922
Synopsis
"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.Mastersof Doomis 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 geniuses-and it should be read while scarfing down pepperoni pizza and swilling Diet Coke, with Queens of the Stone Age cranked up all the way." -MarkLeyner, author ofI Smell Esther Williams Masters of Doomis 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 history-Doom and Quake-until the games they made tore them apart. Americans spend more money on video games than on movie tickets.Masters of Doomis the first book to chronicle this industry's greatest story, written by one of the medium's 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 artistry-a powerful and compassionate account of what it's like to be young, driven, and wildly creative.
LC Classification Number
GV1469.15.K87 2003
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Rip and Tear! Great quality ...
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