Guy Ferraiolo was born on April 26, 1953 and brought up in Newark, New Jersey.  Although Aniello and Gloria Ferraiolo were not high school graduates, they made sure their only child got a first class education.  Guy attended a Catholic grammar school from which he was invited to apply and subsequently enrolled in Regis High School.  After four years of commuting from New Jersey to New York City, Guy was graduated from Regis and accepted into MIT as a physics major in 1971.

While still in high school, Guy began working for Jim Dunnigan at Simulations Publications Incorporated designing war games.  He remained passionate about military history, game production, and gaming throughout his life.  Adding in his love of science fiction prompted Guy to form Tsunami Press in order to reissue Phil Pritchard's Lensman game, arguably the first science fiction war game.

Guy joined Phi Mu Delta at MIT, made lifelong friends, and returned to NJ before earning a degree.  He gravitated toward computer-related jobs and by 1980 was the User Support at Bloomfield College where he met Admissions Counselor Denise Moy.  She had been hired for her data analysis experience, as Bloomfield was beta-testing a computer system for student recruitment.  Guy and Denise immediately bonded over shared tastes in books, music, movies, and food.  Soon after, they realized their differences in other areas made living together untenable.  Denise eventually moved to Pennsylvania and Guy stayed in NJ.

Guy spent 35+ years in software development at Bell Labs, ATTIS, and ultimately at his dream job with CNET/CBS.  In his free time, he bought (a lot of) books, vacationed with Denise, and gamed – at home, online, at WBC and Origins, with friends new and old.  A few years before leaving CNET, Guy moved to Whitehall PA where he bought the house next door to Denise's sister's home.  Real estate development soon morphed from favorite retirement activity to Guy's passion, and he proudly invited Denise to the closing of his first flip.  He enjoyed meeting a whole new set of people and learning the rules of the real estate game.  Guy was still working on deals from his hospital bed a week before his passing.

Guy Ferraiolo died on April 29, 2024 after a brief, intense fight with metastatic gastric cancer.  It was 34 days after he and Denise had married, and three days after Guy's 71st birthday.  He is terribly missed by Denise, her sisters, mother, and brother-in-law, and by countless friends.