Sean Gonsalves

Sean Gonsalves

2 years ago • •

Sean Gonsalves
2 years ago • •

Gotta give posthumous flowers to Jerry Lawson, the man who created the first video game console w/interchangeable cartridges.

It was a watershed moment for gaming. As this USA Today article notes, it was "the foundation for today's global video game market."

In his honor, there's a Lawson exhibit on permanent display at The World Video Game Hall of Fame at The Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester, NY

usatoday.com/story/tech/2020/0…

Console inventor Jerry Lawson sits at desk with computer, smiling, holding a video game console

Before Nintendo and Atari: How a black engineer changed the video game industry forever

A black engineer and video game developer named Jerry Lawson paved the way for Atari, Nintendo and Sega in designing the first cartridge-based video game console.

^{Mike Snider (USA TODAY)}

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