Herman, "The Game Scholar", fell in love with videogames the first time he played Pong at a local bowling alley in 1972. He began collecting videogames in 1979 after he purchased his first Atari VCS and then began writing his first book on videogames: ABC To The VCS, which wouldn't be published until 1996. A programmer and technical writer by trade, Mr. Herman founded Rolenta Press in 1994 to publish his book, Phoenix: The Fall & Rise of Videogames, the first serious book on videogame history. In 2008, Game Informer named Phoenix the #2 book on videogames in all time. The title has been referred as the "Bible of the videogame industry".
Mr. Herman has written videogame-related articles for Electronic Gaming Monthly, Videogaming Illustrated, Herman, "The Game Scholar", fell in love with videogames the first time he played Pong at a local bowling alley in 1972. He began collecting videogames in 1979 after he purchased his first Atari VCS and then began writing his first book on videogames: ABC To The VCS, which wouldn't be published until 1996. A programmer and technical writer by trade, Mr. Herman founded Rolenta Press in 1994 to publish his book, Phoenix: The Fall & Rise of Videogames, the first serious book on videogame history. In 2008, Game Informer named Phoenix the #2 book on videogames in all time. The title has been referred as the "Bible of the videogame industry".
Mr. Herman has written videogame-related articles for Electronic Gaming Monthly, Videogaming Illustrated, Official US Playstation, Games, Edge, Pocket Games, Classic Gamer Magazine, Manci Games, Video Game Collector, and Gamespot, as well as editing Video Game Trader magazine....more