Zach was a Highschool student when he and his friend J. Douglas Arnold, began to publish a fan-news magazine called the "Amiga Games Guide" which was a bi-monthly magazine. Shortly afterward his friend Arnold began to publish series of video game guides, under the series name "Gaming Mastery Series". Along with writing these books he also wrote books for Prima Publishing who where also introducing a series of gaming books. He later wrote weekly columns and reviews for many video game magazines. He later began working with 'Working Designs' and later Atlus USA. For a time he used the name "Freelance Weasel Inc.", as a busness name and also had his own website blog.