The video game pioneer was known as the “father of the video game cartridge”.
Gerald “Jerry” Lawson, an American electronic engineer and designer of Fairchild Channel F, the first home video game system with interchangeable games, was honored with aHe was a pioneer in his field and led the team that invented the commercial, interchangeable video game cartridge. He was one of the first Black engineers in the industry and was known as the “father of the video game cartridge”.
Lawson moved to California and joined Fairchild Semiconductor International in 1970 as an engineering consultant. He invented a coin-operated arcade game called Demolition Derby in his garage while he was at Fairchild.It was one of the first games to be powered by a microprocessor, a computing processor where data is included on a chip so that the computer, or in this case video game, can operate. It is also known as the central processing unit .
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