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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 used as commercial video game cartridges.
Jerry Lawson replaced the 8080 with Fairchild's own F8 CPU; ... The Channel F is also the first video game console to feature a pause function; There is a 'Hold ...
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 game is later modified to become Death Race (1976). Fairchild employee Jerry Lawson creates the game Destruction Derby [Note 4] which he offers to Major Manufacturers. [26] [27] Though the game is never officially released, its creation leads to Lawson’s engineering leadership of the Fairchild Video Entertainment System console. [28]
USC Games has announced an endowment named for Jerry Lawson, the Black engineer who created the first console to store video games on cartridges.
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 ...
By 1982, the shelf capacity of toy stores was overflowing with an overabundance of consoles, over-hyped game releases, and low-quality games from new third-party developers. An over-saturation of consoles and games, [13] coupled with poor knowledge of the market, saw the video game industry crash in 1983 and marked the start of the next ...
Covers the early growth of arcade games and home video game consoles in the late 1970s and early 1980s until the 1983 video game crash.Featured interviews include Tomohiro Nishikado, creator of Space Invaders; Rebecca Heineman, winner of the first Space Invaders U.S. national championship; Doug Macrae, Steve Golson, and Mike Horowitz of General Computer Corporation that made accelerator boards ...