Had this pop up on my feed and felt that we should pay respects for the guy who made console gaming possible.
Had this pop up on my feed and felt that we should pay respects for the guy who made console gaming possible.
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Okay. I’m pretty sure there was Magnetic films and punch card data storage before that
Literal game changer
Respect yo
From the website [Time Extension:](https://www.timeextension.com/news/2022/12/flashback-who-invented-the-video-game-cartridge)
> The truth, however, is a bit more nuanced. **Lawson wasn’t actually the creator of the first video game cartridge,** **but instead the co-creator of the first video game console that used interchangeable ROM cartridges** — a minor yet significant distinction. This is something Lawson previously confirmed himself in the 1993 Fairchild vs. Nintendo deposition where he stated how Fairchild got the idea, and which Edwards noted in a more complete history of the video game cartridge in 2015.
There have been a lot of Black people who have contributed a lot to our lives. But lying about it is only going to hurt their image. Fuck twitter
There was a section of the Netflix Video game Doc about this chap who was quite the inventor, they went to see his son and grandchild and they had some of his old kit and had pictures of him falling asleep at his desk in his workshop, the guy was truely a genius with technology.
EDIT: Doc is called High Score for anyone interested in watching.
No one questions steve job’s creation of apple. Yet very intelligent people here are like acshually… just a small detail that the guy is black.
Y’all are dumb as fuck it literally says right on there he made the console not the cartridge
The reason it seems to imply he made the cartridge is because there would be no reason to invent cartridges if consoles didn’t use them
And here we are almost 50 years later, downloading games into the hardware
thx jerry 💟
History of the entire system: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nio3hYAx_Tc
Recommend to sub while you’re at it.
This guy was a big piece of video game history that unfortunately gets forgotten about.
Why does bro look like badlands chugs