{"id":2172,"date":"2016-05-25T09:53:36","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T04:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reliablesoftwares.com\/blog\/?p=2172"},"modified":"2016-05-23T21:21:15","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T15:51:15","slug":"masters-of-doom-how-two-guys-created-an-empire-and-transformed-pop-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reliablesoftwares.com\/blog\/masters-of-doom-how-two-guys-created-an-empire-and-transformed-pop-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"masterofdoom\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Master of Doom written by David Kushner is the amazing true story of the Lennon and McCartney of video games: John Carmack and John Romero. Together, they ruled big business. They provoked a national controversy. More than anything, they lived a unique and rollicking American Dream, produce the most notoriously successful game franchises in history\u2014Doom andQuake\u2014 until the games they made tore them apart. This is a story of friendship and betrayal, commerce and artistry\u2014a powerful and compassionate account of what it’s like to be young, driven, and wildly creative.<\/p>\n

We played games created by id (specially Quake 2 and Quake 3) and were captivated by it. I had read this book almost 10 yrs ago and was enjoying the read again and reliving those days again. Missed playing Quake 3 .. I hope many of you miss it too.<\/p>\n

This ibook is about how an empire is build and destroyed. A must read, one you should not miss, \u00a0get your copy from here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Master of Doom written by David Kushner is the amazing true story of the Lennon and McCartney of video games:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[343],"class_list":["post-2172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-books","tag-masters-of-doom"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgLsB5-z2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3663,"url":"https:\/\/reliablesoftwares.com\/blog\/book-review-tomorrow-and-tomorrow-and-tomorrow-a-novel-about-creation-not-just-games\/","url_meta":{"origin":2172,"position":0},"title":"Book Review Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow \u2014 A Novel About Creation, Not Just Games","author":"saifuddin","date":"December 14, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Gabrielle Zevin\u2019s Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is often described as a \u201cvideo game novel,\u201d but that framing undersells what the book truly achieves. 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