Google is honoring late engineer Jerry Lawson — who would’ve turned 82 today — with a Doodle that allows users to customize several interactive games. Lawson was a pioneer of modern gaming.
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explaining the Doodle, Anderson Lawson said he hopes young people will be inspired by the games and the man behind them. "When people play this Doodle, I hope they're inspired to be imaginative," he said."And I hope that some little kid somewhere that looks like me and wants to get into game development, hearing about my father's story makes them feel like they can."Gerald Lawson's life was"all about science," as his son put it.
After attending Queens College and City College of New York, Lawson drove across the country to Palo Alto, where he joined Fairchild Semiconductor — starting as an engineering consultant and working his way up to director of engineering and marketing for its video game department.Lawson helped lead the development of the Fairchild Channel F system, the first video game system console that used interchangeable game cartridges, an eight-way digital joystick and a pause menu.
"He was creating a coin-operated video game using the Fairchild microprocessor, which later with a team of people led to the creation of the gaming cartridge and the
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