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Jeff Gerstmann
Born	August 1, 1975 (1975-08-01) (age 32) Los Angeles, California
Occupation	Video Game Journalist
Nationality	American
Website	www.gamespot.com

Jeff Gerstmann (born August 1 1975) was the editorial director at popular gaming website GameSpot. He began working at GameSpot in the fall of 1996, around the launch of VideoGameSpot (back when GameSpot separated PC and console games into completely separate entities). He shared his thoughts on a variety of other subjects every Monday on his GameSpot blog. He has also been quoted by the New York Times as a video game expert,^[1] and says that he owns over 2000 games ^[2].

Founding member of the bands Headboard, The Suburban All-Stars, and Midnight Brown, Gerstmann has an extensive musical career that has earned him a fair amount of musical fame.

Jeff was largely part of the audio section of GameSpot. Most of the background music or intro music for shows is provided by instrumental tracks from Midnight Brown. In older video reviews at the end of the video the numerical score would be announced, Jeff also provided the voice for these scores. Additionally, Gerstmann's vocal stylings can be heard on the theme songs for Time Trotters (A single episode live-action series that was later revived in animated form), GameSpot's game show, Button Mashing, and Indievelopment: a video documentary following Echelon Software's progress on their game Black Powder Red Earth.

Gerstmann also appeared on ABC's T.V. show, Good Morning America as a guest in September 1999 to discuss the launch of Sega's Dreamcast gaming console.

The first game system Gerstmann owned was a Fairchild Channel F which his parents, who own an auto-repair and tire business, bought opposed to the Atari 2600 as there were some educational games available for it. After being ruined in a flood, he then purchased an Atari home computer.^[3]

He replaced Rich Gallup as the host of On the Spot.

It is rumored that he has been fired from GameSpot because of his unfavorable review of Eidos' game Kane & Lynch. ^[4]

• He enjoys the music of hard rock band Van Halen, as evidenced by "The Bad" section of his review of Guitar Hero^[5] stating that it has no songs from the band. He also stated in the "Greatest Games of All Time" section covering Lode Runner that when he first played the game when at age nine, all he did that summer was listen to Van Halen while playing his Atari 800.^[6].
• Purchased Garou: Mark of the Wolves on the Neo-Geo for about $1200.^[7]
• Two films he enjoys are Heat (1995) and The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006), of which he bought an HD-DVD version before an HD-DVD player.
• His favorite The Legend of Zelda game is The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past.
• In the credits of Guitar Hero II for the Xbox 360, he is listed in the "Special Thanks" section as a beta tester.

• Jeff Gerstmann at GameSpot
• Jeff Gerstmann at MySpace
• Jeff Gerstmann at TV.com
• The Suburban All-Stars
• Midnight Brown