I recently finished Masters of Doom, by David Kushner. It chronicled the creators behind Doom, and the years leading up to the game. It brought me back to the games I played after getting our first Tandy computer in the mid-80s: Commander Keen, Wolfenstein, Big Blue Disk games, and other Apogee games. It was a great little history lesson on the team that created the iconic game. I wish there were more books out like this, behind the scenes on the creation of our favorite games.
As a great tidbit of knowledge, I found out that John Romero spent less than a year working for Origin Systems in Manchester NH, which is my hometown. The fact that there was a major gaming company in town while I was a kid is very impressive, if only they took 10 year old interns.
Random stuff from my brain.
