Black History | Jerry Lawson Changed the Game
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ก.พ. 2021
- In honor of #BlackHistoryMonth, #PHXTVClassroom highlights this STEM innovator and pioneer who made a difference in the gaming industry. #JerryLawson changed the game!
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This man is the reason I have made friends, cried from beautiful stories, laughed, and enjoyed one of the best hobbies in the world. Rest in peace to the man who made my childhood and my continued happiness in gaming.
Patent for the joystick and cartridges existed before Lawson started working on someone else's prototype. You're giving the man way too much credit.
I never heard of him. That's crazy. Awesome!
This is amazing this man changed my life and I didn’t even know it
He also invented the "press X to doubt" button. Good job!
Ooooh I gotta check this out. Sounds cool!
I miss blowing inside cartridges to make it work 😂
How is there like only 2 moments on dis there should be like 5 millon
Not to take anything away from Jerry, he's definitively an inspiration !! , but the 1st removable cartridge gaming system was the Original Magnavox Odyssey in 1972 made by Ralph Baer. I had both the Odyssey and the Channel F. The channel F was much more fun to play !! It was also a very unique design !! So THANKS JERRY !!! RIP 2011 :(
That's awesome and incredible!! Credit and Congrats to Jerry Lawson!
What a gifted human being, and just further proof of the hidden potentialities within all humans regardless of the insignificant accidental aspect called melanocyte coloration triggered by eumelanin(enzyme for dark skin) or pheomelanin(for pale skin) depending on whether the first humans remained in the equatorial zones of Africa( or migrated to higher latitudes in Europe and elsewhere, respectively, according to intensity of UV-B exposure.
Skin tone is not the only medically observable difference, IS it? Are there not actually skeletal differences? Predispositions to certain diseases? Maybe facial / cranial differences? We can celebrate our differences. we can appreciate one another FOR those differences. Rather than lie...mislead, or deny them right in their face.
@@skeggjoldgunnr3167 those other things you listed that makes us look different those are determined by your parents, And the way they looked was determined by their parents in a way their parents looked was determined by their parents. So we are all human We just have different shades of skin and the reason we look different is because our parents looked different but obviously when we mix we can see we change that flow
@@avirei98 Caucasoid parents are incapable of recreating the ankle bone structure of the africanus. Or the cro-magnon brow line. Or sickle-cell anemia, or propensity to heart disease. Or skull thickness. Or nose bridge structure. These are observable traits caused by different DNA. Asiatic peoples have their OWN peculiarities in both the skeletal uniqueness and sweat gland differences and propensity to allergies. SIMILAR? Yes. DIFFERENT? Yes. SAME? No.
@skeggjoldgunnr3167
A bit dishonest to say skeletal structures count as a significant difference that determines intelligence. I've seen many Caucasians with different facial structures and they're all in the same ethnicity. It's especially misleading and dishonest to prop up disproven racial pseudoscience, like skeletal structures, as actual scientific facts. Especially to prop them right in their faces. And especially when people still look at skin color and use it as a basis to automatically assume other racial features.
Wow I live in Silicon Valley and I never knew this!!!! And it seams that anyone that is of color in the Valley does not get the recognition they deserve.
What do *I* "deserve" because of something someone else with a similar skin tone to mine ACTUALLY DIDN'T DO one time many years ago?
Fairchild Channel F had all the games built into the system. those cartridges were just jumpers that set the system to play one of it's other built-in games. NOT the first "game cartridges", now IS IT? That accomplishment goes to someone that didn't have very dark skin. No. It wasn't what you'd call very dark, at all. Jerry lawson was the one that deserves credit due for what Jerry Lawson accomplished and Jerry Lawson's accomplishments should not be made a lie for someone to discover as a lie later on and give up hoping to have a black pioneer to look up to. The man was awesome. Let's be HONEST about what he really did do and let's celebrate THAT, instead. It feels happier.
Hmmm, he didn't invent the game cartridge. That was Kirschner and Haskel at Alpex. After it was presented to Fairchild, Lawson helped change the design to be more consumer friendly, but Kirschner and Haskel already had a working prototype before they went to Fairchild or met with Lawson.
Why are you spread lies? You're contributing the work of a whole team to him. Which is actually very disgusting. Do you not understand how a business works? It's no different to how smart phones are created today. Fairchild brought a series of patents to create a superior product. The controller was created by a man called Talisfore and Ron Smith made the removable cartridges. Lawson didn't even play a role in creating the first prototype. He most definitely played a role in being the team leader but everything he could take credit for is superficial the console would've existed in some state.
Now largely forgotten, the Channel F was an innovative, short-lived precursor to better known second-generation video game consoles like the Intellivision, Atari 2600 and ColecoVision. Priced at $169 (or upward of $800 in today’s dollars), it was the first home console with a microprocessor, a joystick and a hold button. More importantly, it was the first to utilize game-loaded ROM (read-only memory) cartridges instead of having all the games built into the console itself. (It did come with two built-in games: “Hockey” and “Tennis.”) The technology was designed by Jerry Lawson, a pioneering African American computer engineer in Silicon Valley, now widely credited as the father of the video game cartridge.
Channel F (the F stood for “fun”) built a library of 26 ROM game cartridges called “videocarts,” priced at about 20 bucks a piece. The most popular one, “Spitfire,” was an aerial dogfighting game that challenged users to "fly" highly pixelated versions of the Red Baron and Blue Max and shoot each other down. One added revolutionary feature: Players without a buddy to play against could compete against the CPU, a first for a home console.
@@Carloscda40 "The technology was designed by Jerry Lawson, a pioneering African American computer engineer in Silicon Valley, now widely credited as the father of the video game cartridge." Why are you spreading misinformation with terrible articles. I can tell just by reading it and specially written by someone who has worked in news media. How can Lawson be credited for a device when it's patent existed before he even worked on it? He can't that's how.
Think about all the "Magic Negroes" who helped develop major innovations on other areas and white men got the credit, and those Black inventors never received credit or were blocked from getting pattens to their credit. Imagine your outrage a thousand times over?