[Video Game History 12] • Masters of Doom · How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture by Kushner, David -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Page Title Page Dedication Introduction: The Two Johns One: The Rock Star Two: The Rocket Scientist Three: Dangerous Dave in Copyright Infringement Four: Pizza Money Five: More Fun Than Real Life Six: Green and Pissed Seven: Spear of Destiny Eight: Summon the Demons Nine: The Coolest Game Ten: The Doom Generation Eleven: Quakes Twelve: Judgment Day Thirteen: Deathmatch Fourteen: Silicon Alamo Fifteen: Straight out of Doom Sixteen: Persistent Worlds Epilogue Author’s Note Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments About the Author Copyright one afternoon in April 2000 more money on video games than on movie tickets “Romero wants an empire James Dallas Egbert III disappeared $25 million in annual sales the D&D rule book sales reaching over $7 billion

Three years later, in 1961 Ten years later, a programmer and amateur cave explorer in Boston, Will Crowther the language of the priests arcade games bringing in $5 billion a year In one, a dog named Chewy a homemade comic book called Weird Apple had become the darling the Two Steves hacked Spacewar Woz was equal parts But the Apple II, made the following year, was mass market Ken and Roberta Williams Silas Warner “Machine of the Year.” $536 million in losses $1 billion in sales comics he called “Melvin.” the good news came “When I win “I’ve been learning computers In second grade, only seven years old his top five problems when he refused to do extracredit homework The game was so compelling a letter to his teacher WarGames “Though some in the field Bulletin board systems came about the WELL a new television series, Star Trek: The Next Generation, “Why can’t you realise Wraith

In 1864, Confederate soldiers

its burgeoning clones Softdisk occupied two buildings

By refusing to incorporate

Defender Nintendo was on the way

“Dear John,” it read, “Loved your game

“Dear John,” it read, “I loved your game a brief article “Scott: You, sir, have serious psychological problems “Dear Mr. Miller,” Andrew Fluegelman “Warren Robinett.” The Fight for Justice “Superlative alert!” “sets a new standard for shareware games,” “For stimulating, Violent fantasy, of course, had an ancient history first video game to be banned primal desire cave paintings in Lascaux “dazzling and incomparably more solid Morton Heilig “The environments,” he wrote, “suggest a new art medium Scott Fisher “kind of electronic persona

Someone siphoned gasoline from their cars. Adrian was particularly miserable

“wanted: cleric and/or thief!

On a cold winter day

a NeXT computer

They wanted the games banned

“Id Software is brought to you “There’s no surprise “how popular Wolf 3-D is “more like an interactive movie “single-handedly justifying the existence of shareware.” Even Computer Gaming World, A Kentucky entrepreneur hooked up a version Some players thought “This game certainly goes heavy “Wolfenstein 3-D may have no socially redeeming value “Nazis in Cyberspace!”

Tom documented

one of “the most remarkable, if unheralded success stories Fuzzy Pumper Palette Shop “The overall effect is distorted,” “We don’t know what nasty sludge

selling more than 4 million copies

“Its brilliantly designed and rendered 3-D images,” A community television program did a piece “You started posting hype “I was firing the shotgun “The Night Before Doom” “A Parent’s Nightmare

Like a lot of parents

By choosing to release the blood-and-guts version Senator Lieberman was also joined “Satan’s efficient agents New York City mayor Fiorello La Guardia a $6 billion industry “The PTA is concerned “Children are putting their book fees shut down arcades “Video Games—Fun or Serious Threat?” “Video Game Fever—Peril or Payoff for the Computer Generation” “The video game craze,” C. Everett Koop “Dr. Nicholas Pott “There is no evidence “A lot of kids who are good The hearings were filled with impassioned statements Though a global network of computers had been around “It was a mob scene “Since today’s release of Doom Intel banned the game after it found its system swamped. Texas A&M “People sprint in here “3-D tour de force.” “The once-dull PC “The follow-up to Wolfenstein 3-D “This game is so intense “You know,” he said, “I do have a battle-ax They were philanthropic “I wanted to buy them things “Microsoft is committed “heroinware.” “Privately held id Software The New York Times USA Today Variety “Everyone is talking China was considering banning Doom Brazil, in fact, would later outlaw the game Night Trap sold out around the country. With the ratings system in place, publishers felt freer to release edgier content. Even Nintendo joined in the party, making plans to release a version of Mortal Kombat II

Austin Virtual Gaming

“So we can beat everybody!” “Every man and woman should play “play . . . is a significant function “a society without games “Quake won’t be just a game,” “It’s as close to virtual reality “Virtual Mayhem and Real Profits,” “Doomonomics,” “an entire file In Quantico, Virginia D!Zone—a collection of nine hundred user-made Doom mods (which id obviously did not own); the D!Zone CD-ROM had, remarkably, surpassed Doom II

The party was in full swing Sales for Doom II

GTI’s sales from $10 million to a projected $340 million in just two years. When the company went public in December 1995, it was the largest venture-capital-backed IPO of the year, even ahead of the Internet browser company Netscape. “[GTI] came out of nowhere a cover story on id

In a dark room

“bloody amazing.” “a towering programming feat “Quake delivers the most carnage “Electronic games “Lots of people will read Time magazine estimated “the Willy Wonka Chocolate Factory of Gaming!” “cyber elite.” “cool companies.” “Id is a technology-oriented company,” “After I left,” “It’s going to happen,” “the creative talent behind [id]” “the man responsible “After he got rich and famous “I always flip my hair

“I bought my first Ferrari

“New Cowboys.” “Doom babies.” “the new Hollywood.” Of the $3.7 billion generated “The PC gaming boom,” “You can’t keep up with Carmack,” “Hi . . . I’m here to tell you But when a gaming magazine “Either people who are no longer

He made amateurish mods “Whatsup all you doomers

“It’s going to be like fucking Doom,” “Several readers have written The Simon Wiesenthal Center “dark, dangerous place.” “widen the hole in any kid’s soul.” “murder simulators.” Even President Clinton chimed in Marilyn Manson banned trench coats Disney World and Disneyland In an April 28 statement “How many of us accept “There’s more to learn As Jones noted Researchers since the 1980s An academic study in England In Finland, researchers used computer games “Violence in film “This is so crazy and hysterical,” “Violence has always been “The video game ‘Quake,’ “more fun than shooting a $130 million lawsuit “come hell or high water “the place where the ‘designer’s vision is king’ “Shut up and finish the game.” “For those of you “Online gaming is still a small segment

“Aaaaarrggggggggh!”

Katherine Anna Kang was called a banana selling only 41,000 copies “a disaster “signals nothing more remarkable “Yep,” the headline declared, “it stinks.” an estimated $6 billion history “an amoral little jerk.”

$10.8 billion in the United States surpassing box-office receipts

An estimated 60 percent of all Americans “This was a tragic situation,” “video games drive the evolution one of the few pocket PC games

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