The Game Scholar

At Classic Gaming Expo 2K in August 2000, I spoke with a friend about the forthcoming publication of the third edition of my book Phoenix: The Fall & Rise of Videogames.

Released in 2025 by Champ Games/Good Deal Games In November 2023 Michael Thomasson of Good Deal Games asked me if I wanted to design the manuals for two new Atari 2600 games that he was producing through his company, Good Deal Games.

Old School Gamer – September 2024 It took me a while to write the second part of the Atari article so it wasn’t published until nearly two years after the first part.

Old School Gamer – November 2022 Ryan Berger, the publisher of Old School Magazine, called me and asked me if I’d like to write a 3,000-word article about the history of Atari through the mid-nineties for the Fall 2022 issue.

Three men make up the pillars of videogame history.

The rivalry between Ralph and Nolan was legendary.

In early 2006 I began work on the fourth edition of my videogame history book, Phoenix: The Fall and Rise of Videogames.

Although I was never an athlete, I grew up in the shadow of one.

On Saturday, May 21, 2022, the city of Manchester, New Hampshire celebrated Ralph Baer’s 100th birthday by rededicating the statue of him that they put up a few years ago.

The assumption is that we mostly remember the people who did things first or the products that came out first.