Editing John Carmack (section)

===Early life===
Carmack was born in [[Shawnee Mission, Kansas]],<ref name="wired.com" /> the son of local television news reporter Stan Carmack. He grew up in the [[Kansas City metropolitan area]], where he became interested in [[computer]]s at an early age. He attended [[Shawnee Mission East High School]] in [[Prairie Village, Kansas]] and [[Raytown South High School]] in nearby [[Raytown, Missouri]].{{sfn|Kushner|2003|pp=20–22}}

Carmack was introduced to video games with the 1978 [[shoot 'em up]] game ''[[Space Invaders]]'' in the [[Arcade game|arcades]] during a [[summer]] vacation as a child. The 1980 [[List of maze video games#Maze chase games|maze chase]] arcade game ''[[Pac-Man]]'' also left a strong impression on him. He cited [[Nintendo]] designer [[Shigeru Miyamoto]] as the game developer he most admired.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.bethblog.com/2011/01/26/all-the-rage-john-carmack/ |title= All the RAGE: John Carmack | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170320052321/http://www.bethblog.com/2011/01/26/all-the-rage-john-carmack/ |archive-date= March 20, 2017 |website= [[Bethesda Softworks]] }}</ref>

As reported in David Kushner's ''[[Masters of Doom]]'', when Carmack was 14, he broke into a school with other children to steal [[Apple II]] computers. To gain entry to the building, Carmack concocted a sticky substance of [[thermite]] mixed with [[Vaseline]] that melted through the windows. However, an overweight accomplice struggled to get through the hole and instead opened the window, setting off a silent alarm and alerting police. Carmack was arrested and sent for psychiatric evaluation. He was sentenced to a year in a juvenile home.<ref name="slashdot-answers">{{cite web |url=https://games.slashdot.org/story/99/10/15/1012230/john-carmack-answers |title=John Carmack Answers |date=October 15, 1999 |website=[[Slashdot]] |access-date=November 27, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121005165414/https://games.slashdot.org/story/99/10/15/1012230/john-carmack-answers |archive-date=October 5, 2012}}</ref>{{sfn|Kushner|2003|p=21}} He attended the [[University of Missouri–Kansas City]] for two semesters before withdrawing to work as a freelance programmer.<ref>{{cite book|last1 =Jones |first1=Steve|title=Encyclopedia of New Media: An Essential Reference to Communication and Technology Encyclopedia Of New Media|publisher =SAGE Publications |isbn=0-7619-2382-9 |url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofne00jone|url-access =registration |page =[https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofne00jone/page/53 53] |quote =University of Missouri–Kansas City john carmack. |date=December 10, 2002}}</ref>