Gerald A. Lawson, Video Game Pioneer, Dies at 70 - NYTimes.com - 1 views
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In the mid-1970s, he was director of engineering and marketing for the newly formed video game division of Fairchild Semiconductor, and it was under his direction that the division brought to market in 1976 the Fairchild Channel F, a home console that allowed users to play different games contained on removable cartridges.
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In March, Mr. Lawson was honored for his innovative work by the International Game Developers Association
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“He’s absolutely a pioneer,” Allan Alcorn, a creator of the granddaddy of video games, Pong, said in an interview with The San Jose Mercury News in March. “When you do something for the first time, there is nothing to copy
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