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Gerald Anderson Lawson (December 1, 1940 – April 9, 2011) was an American electronic engineer.Besides being one of the first African-American computer engineers in Silicon Valley, Lawson was also known for his work in designing the Fairchild Channel F video game console, leading the team that refined ROM cartridges for durable use as commercial video game cartridges.
Patent: Cartridge programmable video game apparatus US 4095791 A; The Untold Story of the Invention of the Video Game Cartridge—how the Channel F's video game cartridge was created (January 22, 2015). Channel F was 1977's top game system—before Atari wiped it out at The A.V. Club ' s AUX (4/09/2017)
He developed the first home gaming system with interchangeable game cartridges, the Fairchild Channel F console, which revolutionized video games. In 1980, Lawson started Video Soft, the first ...
The Fairchild Channel F, also known early in its life as the Fairchild Video Entertainment System (VES), was released by Fairchild Semiconductor in November 1976 and was the first console of the second generation. [26] It was the world's first CPU-based video game console, introducing the cartridge-based game-code storage format. [27]
USC Games has announced an endowment named for Jerry Lawson, the Black engineer who created the first console to store video games on cartridges.
Videocart-1: Tic Tac Toe, Shooting Gallery, Doodle, Quadradoodle is a board game genre video game released in 1976 by Fairchild.Video magazine reviewed the individual games in a 1978 article on the Channel F, scoring Tic-Tac-Toe a 5 out of 10, Shooting Gallery a 7 out of 10, Doodle a 4 out of 10, and Quadra-Doodle a 3 out of 10.
Google paid tribute to Gerald “Jerry” Lawson on Thursday by featuring the video game pioneer as the subject of a […] The post Video game pioneer Jerry Lawson honored with Google Doodle ...
John Draper was a member of the club, as was Jerry Lawson (creator of the first cartridge-based video game system, Fairchild Channel F). [13] Li-Chen Wang, developer of Palo Alto Tiny Basic and graphics software for the Cromemco Dazzler, was a club member, and Lee Felsenstein was moderator of the club meetings.