Later Life
Following the collapse of Atari, Warshaw wrote two books. The first, The Complete Book of PAN, is a guide to the card game of the same name. In the second, Conquering College, Warshaw discusses his techniques toward academic success, referred to as RASABIC (Read Ahead, Stay Ahead, Be In Class) which enabled him to graduate early and save one full year's tuition. Later, he studied video production, and released the documentary From There to Here: Scenes of Passage., a chronicle of the American immigration of two Russian women from the same family, one in 1912 and the other in 1978. Subsequently he went on to produce the multi-part documentary Once Upon Atari, a collection of interviews and stories of employees and designers at Atari during the late 1970s and early 1980s. In 2005, he also produced and directed the documentary Vice & Consent, focusing on members of the BDSM scene in San Francisco. This documentary was adopted by Santa Clara University as part of their Human Sexuality program where Warshaw lectures regularly.
In 2004 classic video game enthusiasts were able to produce cartridges of Saboteur for sale at game expos. It debuted at PhillyClassic 5 where Warshaw was at hand to bless the distribution and autograph the cartridges. That year Atari also released the Atari Flashback system that includes fifteen Atari 2600 and five Atari 7800 titles, including Saboteur.
In his games, Warshaw is also known for always leaving his initials as an Easter egg. Along with this, in Raiders of the Lost Ark, the player can find a "Yar;" and in E.T., the player can find both a "Yar" and an "Indy."; in Yar's Revenge, if the player stays on the "mean streak" while the base is exploding, HSWWSH (his initials forwards and backwards) appear on the screen – and end the game.
In 2008, Warshaw guest starred as himself in the G4TV animated series Code Monkeys in the second season episode "Dean in Charge".
In 2011, Warshaw received a Master of Arts degree in Counseling Psychology from John F. Kennedy University. He is an intern psychotherapist in private practice specializing in couples and the unique stresses and challenges of Silicon Valley's Hi-tech community.
He is also due to have a role in the upcoming independent film Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie, based on the web series by the same name.
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