Masters Of Doom Book Coming

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Random House will publish a book in early May titled "Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture".

The book, written by David Kushner, will concentrate on the lives of John Carmack and John Romero, their efforts on the creation of Doom, the impact they have had on the field of video games and mainstream media and more. The book is based largely on new and extensive interviews with Carmack and Romero as well as others connected with them. The Random House web site also contains an excerpt from the first chapter.

The book will be available both as a hardcover and an eBook (though the eBook listing has an incorrect image as its cover). Readers of Game Informer magazine can read an interview with Kushner in the latest print issue (dated April 2003) about his work on Masters of Doom.

News source: HomeLan Fed

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#1 KICK_XP on 24 Mar 2003 - 19:17

nice (Y)

#2 cesardrgn on 24 Mar 2003 - 19:34

nice, can't wait...

#3 btallack on 24 Mar 2003 - 22:19

Good to know, I still play Doom once in a while, and have it for my GBA.

#4 dougkinzinger on 25 Mar 2003 - 02:53

cool...i like these historical reference books....good for bathroom reading

#5 Zoneblitz61 on 25 Mar 2003 - 03:55

Doom was the best, its been awhile since I've played a game that actually made me feel as good and psyched up as doom did back in the day. Half-life came close, but it just didn't have the same feel. I'm really keeping my fingers crossed on doom3

#6 mr_da3m0n on 25 Mar 2003 - 14:20

Oh yeah! I have to get that! I actually own the ID Anthology Pack. You know, the big gray/black/negative-ish box with the Doom II final boss' face on it? It came with every single doom ever known to man, I beat all of them and loved every single moment of it. Final Doom

lutonia Experiments gave me a hard time

I still have the little CyberDemon statuette that came with the pack, it's sitting atop my left speaker, next to my Tux plushie with a "no bill gates" sign. Fun! XD

#7 baphomet_irl on 26 Mar 2003 - 00:31

i got the book of ID too - wot a cool box set - the comic rocked too! - ive lost my Cyberdemon statuette thou

- still have the dog-tags thou (Y) Carmack and Romero are very important people in the evolution of modern 3D gaming IMO and I cant wait to get that book

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