Dude is a fakester, and is just hoping to sell some books based off the current retro gamer fad.  I am sorry but if you completely stopped playing for so many years (and mostly sports games as it seems with this guy) you have no business to be writing a book about it.  I took it out of my original post with the video in this thread, but I said he probably got most of his information at nintendoage.  Now I believe it's a possibility.