Rusel DeMaria
Born 1948
Rusel DeMaria is the pen-name of Russell Ehrman. He began writing computer related articles in the late 1980's and published a few books on computers, contributed to magazines such as 'Computer Play', 'GamePro' and 'Personal Computer Games', advancing to Editor for both of the latter two. In 1990 he was contacted by Ben Dominitz of Prima Publishing to produce a series of video game books. He became creative-director of the videogames books. The Prima video game series went under two titles, Prima Publishing's 'Secrets of the Games', and 'Game Buster: Get a Clue', before shorting their production titles to simply "Prima Games". He had his first bestseller with the release of the 'Myst: Official Strategy Guide', which he co-wrote with Rick Barba. He became involved more with the design of games over the years, and wrote the fictional story "The Farlander Papers", which takes place in the Star Wars universe and was a limited Edition booklet that was released with the PC game "Star Wars: X-wing", much of the story was re-released in the Strategy Guide for that game also written by DeMaria. He worked as assistant director for game designer David Perry, and has since spent most of his time in game design, teaching and lecturing on games.
[Sources: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prima_Games *Atari H.Q.
Books by Rusel DeMaria in order
Books by Rusel DeMaria in the order they were published, from Nintendo Game Boy Secrets (1990) to High Score! Expanded (2018).
- 1Nintendo Game Boy Secrets
Nintendo Game Boy Secrets1990 - 2Nintendo Games Secrets
Nintendo Games Secrets1990 - 3Sega Genesis Secrets
Sega Genesis Secrets1990 - 4Turbografx-16 and TurboExpress Secrets
Turbografx-16 and TurboExpress Secrets1990 - 5Hands-On SupercardHands-On Supercard1991
- 6Super Mario World Game Secrets
Super Mario World Game Secrets1991 - 7Super NES Games Secrets, Volume 2Super NES Games Secrets, Volume 21992
- 8Super NES Games Secrets, Volume 3
Super NES Games Secrets, Volume 31992 - 9Secret of Mana: Official Game Secrets
Secret of Mana: Official Game Secrets1993 - 10Dragon Lore
Dragon Lore1994 - 11Ecco the Dolphin Games SecretsEcco the Dolphin Games Secrets1994
- 12Final Fantasy III Official Game SecretsFinal Fantasy III Official Game Secrets1994
- 13Mega Man XMega Man X1994
- 14Sega CD Official Game Secrets
Sega CD Official Game Secrets1994 - 15In the First Degree
In the First Degree1995 - 16Klik & Play 1.0
Klik & Play 1.01995 - 17Monty Python's Complete Waste of Time
Monty Python's Complete Waste of Time1995 - 18The 11th Hour: The Sequel to The 7th Guest
The 11th Hour: The Sequel to The 7th Guest1995 - 19The Official Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? Clue Boo
The Official Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? Clue Book1996 - 20Asheron's Call Official Strategies & Secrets
Asheron's Call Official Strategies & Secrets1999 - 21Sim City 3000
Sim City 30001999 - 22High Score!
High Score!2002 - 23Reset
Reset2007 - 24High Score! Expanded
High Score! Expanded2018