Game console pioneer Jerry Lawson passes away

[AndyB]

Gerald A. "Jerry" Lawson is one of the great unknown pioneers of the video game industry. He passed away this past Saturday morning of unspecified causes, according to an announcement on Digital Press.

Lawson will be remembered as the engineer of the first cartridge-based game console (with a pause option!), the Fairchild Channel F, which launched in August 1976 as the Video Entertainment System (VES). He was also the only black member of the legendary Homebrew Computer Club, formed in Silicon Valley in the mid-70s.

http://www.joystiq.com/2011/04/11/game-console-pioneer-jerry-lawson-dies-at-70/

 

[Psychonaut]

if i knew who he was before today, i'm sure i would have been heartbroken.

r.i.p., bro.

 

[Squirrel with Nunchucks]

He's a local, I remember hearing about him in the newspaper. Man, sucks that this happened. RIP. 3: