ABC To The VCS: A Directory of Software For the Atari 2600

by Leonard Herman, Michael Thomasson (Illustrator), Brett Weiss (Preface)

Out of print since 2005, ABC To The VCS is a catalog of all the games available for the Atari VCS (2600) up to that point. It was the first book ever to summarize all of the games for a single videogame console. In all this book contains summaries for over 700 games and black & white screenshots accompany most of them.

362 pages, Paperback

Published April 19, 2023

About the author

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.