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Cheng Xi (程曦, born October 15, 1984), known online as James Cage White, is a Chinese independent game developer and social media user most known for his Vine account, which gained over 470 thousand followers before the platform shut down in 2017. [1]
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.
Ralph Henry Baer (born Rudolf Heinrich Baer; March 8, 1922 – December 6, 2014) was an American inventor, game developer, and engineer.. Baer's Jewish family fled Germany just before World War II and Baer served the American war effort, gaining an interest in electronics shortly thereafter.
Gaming's popularity among communities of color changed significantly over a short period of time: while a 2009 study found that 73.9% of white parents said their children play video games, compared to 26.1% of nonwhite parents, [3] a 2015 result showed that 83% of black teens and 69% of Hispanic teens played video games while white teens ...
Meteor Games released their first web-based game Vikings, Pirates and Ninjas in March 2009. The game was free to play on the web and Facebook. [9] In the company's shift to the rapidly growing social gaming market [10] it released several games and apps primarily for Facebook, including Island Paradise, Serf Wars, and Ranch Town. As of an ...
James Winthrop Thatcher (March 25, 1936 – December 7, 2019) was an American computer scientist, and the inventor of the first screen reader, a type of assistive technology that enables the use of a computer by people with visual impairments. Thatcher was also important to the development of the accessibility consulting industry.
The screen is black and white with two colored strips to provide colored rows of graphics as in Breakout. The circuit board is based on the 6502 CPU, with game code stored in multiple ROMs. [5] All game text is selectable to 4 different languages: English, French, German, or Spanish.
The history of video games began in the 1950s and 1960s as computer scientists began designing simple games and simulations on minicomputers and mainframes. Spacewar! was developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) student hobbyists in 1962 as one of the first such games on a video display. The first consumer video game hardware ...