Joe Grand is the principal engineer at Pixels Past (http://www.pixelspast.com), a video game design and development firm created to provide the gaming industry with the necessary tools to build games for classic video game systems. In his spare time, Joe creates, collects, plays, and writes about videogames. Pixels Past is a division of the product development and intellectual property licensing firm Grand Idea Studio, Inc. (http://www.grandideastudio.com). Joe can be reached at [email protected].