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Classic Gamer Magazine Staff and Featured Writers
Classic Gamer Magazine Staff and Featured Writers

Chris Cavanaugh Kyle Snyder Earl Green

cav@classicgamer.com snyder@classicgamer.com earl@theLogBook.com

Chris has been a die-hard gamer since he Kyle is an avid videogame collector from Earl Green is a television promotions writer/
brought his first Atari home for an illicit affair in Virginia, a prolific writer and has amazing producer currently working for the news
1979. When not being a slave driver to his luck at garage sales. He is engaged to be department of an ABC affiliate. He's also a
faithful writers, he reads comic books, has an married soon to his true love, Selene! classic arcade and console aficionado, pho-
Internet addiction, and is basically successful tographer, music lover (and musician), and
at being a tremendous geek. He also has a Damien Quicksilver all-around sci-fi fan, all of which is reflected
mentally ill cat named “Boo Boo” who sprays. in his own web site, theLogBook.com. He
frop13013@yahoo.com lives with his wife Jan and three very
Sarah Thomas strange cats.
Damien Quicksilver is a mystery, even to us.
sthomas@classicgamer.com We're not sure where he came from, where Kevin Savetz
he's going, or why he won't go away.
Sarah Thomas, our managing editor, is quite We don't know how his mind works, or for savetz@northcoast.com
the stickler for detail. For example, she knows that matter, IF it works. His articles range
the difference between “its” and “it’s” and from mildly offensive to extremely offensive. Kevin Savetz is a free-lance computer tech-
doesn’t have any problem reminding the writ- He utilizes a "style over substance" philoso- nology writer and Atari 8-bit junkie. He coor-
ers (and Editor-in-Chief) about these, and phy that leaves you thinking you've read a dinates the Digital Antic Project Web site
other, differences. good article, even though you have no idea (www.atarimagazines.com), which offers the
Sarah also has an open challenge to anyone what it was about. full text of most issues of Antic magazine.
who thinks they can beat her at Chuckie Egg. His latest project is www.atariarchives.org,
Carl Forhan which offers Atari software and information,
including the text of Mapping the Atari.
Lee K. Seitz
Songbird@atari.net
lseitz@classicgamer.com Patrick Wong
Carl Forhan apparently enjoys being pwong@classicgamer.com
Lee K. Seitz is a computer programmer with a chained to a computer, as he has been fe-
classic video game obsession. He runs the verishly working for the past two years on Patrick is a Brooklyn, New York native who
Classic Video Games Nexus (http://home. publishing new software for the Atari Jaguar enjoys stuffing himself with Coney Island hot
hiwaay.net/~lkseitz/cvg/nexus), the definitive and Lynx platforms under the Songbird Pro- dogs and then riding the subways until he’s
list of classic video games WWW links. He ductions label. This is in addition to holding sick.
welcomes opportunities to pass his knowledge down an engineering job and working as a Patrick is an avid gamer, both old and new,
on to others, but beware, once you get him volunteer youth pastor. Check out all his and when not assisting with Internet start-
latest Atari efforts at http://songbird.atari.net.
started, it's hard to get him to stop.
ups, enjoys writing novels while traveling
Tim Snider Leonard Herman 100 miles per hour on his motorcycle.
Patrick was also featured in the soon to be
Academy Award winning film, Center Stage.
timchrissnider@bright.net rolenta@aol.com

Tim "Sniderman" Snider is managing editor of Leonard Herman is a technical writer and Chris Lion
a specialty medical magazine who, when he's computer programmer who became hooked
not writing about urology, writes about and on videogames after he played Pong at a clion@classicgamer.com
local bowling alley in 1972. He later became
collects for the Atari 2600. He was a contribut-
ing editor to "QuestBusters: The Adventurer's interested in home videogames when he When not writing his own electronic fanzine,
Newsletter" way, way, waaaay back in the purchased his Atari VCS in 1978 and even- Slap and Tickle, Chris is busy being a Pro-
1980s. He has also written for "Metagame," tually accumulated a near-complete collec- fessor of Comedy Arts at Stanford Univer-
tion of NTSC cartridges for that system.
the live-action RPG magazine and "2600 Con- sity. His hobbies include windsurfing, natu-
nection." He is best known in classic video- Leonard has written articles for Videogam- ral childbirth, and dressing like a Pong pad-
gaming circles as the designer of classic- ing & Computer Illustrated, Games Maga- dle while stalking Chelsea Clinton. He also
hacks "Mystery Science Theater 2600," zine, Electronic Gaming Monthly, and the failed to get his bio in before deadline, forc-
"HozerQuest: Thrifting Simulator," and "The Gamespot website. He’s also written two ing someone else to write it.
Blair Witch Project," all for the Atari 2600. books on videogames: "Phoenix: The Fall &
Rise of Videogames" (which Wired Maga- Michael Thomasson
His newest project is programming a survival zine called the definitive book on videogame
horror game for the 2600. However, consider- history) and "ABC To The VCS (A Directory mikecase@mindspring.com
of Software for the Atari 2600)." Leonard
ing his talent with the 6502, it will probably be
finished sometime in 2008. has also written a chapter on the Atari 2600 Michael Thomasson is a professional 3D
for Van Burnham's forthcoming book Animator (previously a programmer) & clas-
"Supercade: A Visual History of the Video-
Henry Hutcheson game Age 1971-1984." He is a long stand- sic gaming hobbyist.
ing member of the North Atlantic Videogame
henry_hutcheson@hotmail.com Aficionados (NAVA) and has served as an He operates the GoodDeal Games Website
advisor for Videotopia, a traveling video- (www.GoodDealGames.com), which hosts a
Henry is the youngest staff member at Classic game museum exhibit. series of classic gaming information includ-
Gamer. He is a huge Sega fan and currently ing interviews, articles, crosswords, online
owns all Sega systems. Henry also writes for Leonard resides in New Jersey with his wife arcade, news, postcards, and original comic
www.dreamcast.vgsites.net, and www. Tamar and sons Ronnie and Gregory. He is strips – all classic game related! His latest
dreamcast.net, as well as a few other sites. hard at work preparing the third edition of project is WGDG Videogame Online Radio
He is known to be crazy but hasn't been taken Phoenix, which he plans to release in early which features game music, audio inter-
to any mental hospitals...yet. 2001. views, classic gaming commercials, and
more.
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