Howard Scott Warshaw (born July 30, 1957), also known as HSW, is an American psychotherapist and former game designer.

However, as limitations became clear, Warshaw re-adapted the concept into a new game involving mutated houseflies defending their world against an alien attacker.

This led Warshaw to be chosen to design the game adaptation of the film Raiders of the Lost Ark, which was also a critically acclaimed commercial success.

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 1920 and the other in 1980.

[5] 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.

If the player stays on this "mean streak" until the explosion is complete, HSWWSH (his initials forward and backward) appear on the screen and end the game.

He was an intern psychotherapist in private practice specializing in couples and the unique stresses and challenges of Silicon Valley's Hi-tech community.

He has a private practice in Los Altos as well as doing public speaking and training delivery in the Silicon Valley area.

[3] In June 2013, Warshaw became a contributing artist to the Museum of Modern Art in New York where Yars' Revenge was accepted as a part of the new video game collection.

[8][9] In early 2020, Warshaw published Inspired Therapist: My inner journey from wannabe to healer, relating "a series of reflections about therapy, what it means to be a therapist, and what it means to live an authentic life"[10] Also in 2020, Warshaw published a companion volume to his documentary Once Upon Atari, a book entitled Once Upon Atari: How I made history by killing an industry.