World-renowned game journalist Chris Kohler enjoys spreading his wings and pitching articles to many different publications, which means he ends up having to write something like this about himself, in the third person, every couple weeks. He is a regular contributor to Wired News, and his articles about video games have appeared in Wired, Nintendo Official Magazine UK, Electronic Gaming Monthly, Official PlayStation Magazine, 1up.com, et al. As if all that were not enough, he has two books under his belt: Power-Up: How Japanese Video Games Gave the World an Extra Life (BradyGAMES) and Retro Gaming Hacks, which will be published in October 2005 by O'Reilly.