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Raymond Doville Jr

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.
  • In March, Mr. Lawson was honored for his innovative work by the International Game Developers Association
  • “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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  • Mr. Alcorn was the first design engineer at Atari, whose own cartridge console eventually dominated the home video game market.
  • After inventing Demolition Derby, Mr. Lawson was put in charge of the company’s video game division. He and his team came up with cartridges that could be loaded with different game programs and then inserted into the console one at a time. This allowed the company to sell individual games separately from the console itself, a business model that remains the cornerstone of the video game industry.
Robert Bone

VC&G | VC&G Interview: Jerry Lawson, Black Video Game Pioneer - 0 views

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    Gerald (Jerry) Lawson interview talking about his early career in the games industry.
10base Tom

3 Ways the Legend of Zelda Has Ruined Gaming - 3 views

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    The Legend of Zelda game series may very well be the single most venerated series in all of gaming. The original NES classic was recently seen in the number one spot of GameInformer Magazine's 200 Greatest Games of All Time. Every time a new entry is announced the gaming community seems to lose it's mind. The games appeal to all gamers of all skill level and all ages. Many say that there never truly been a bad game in the series. And yet not all the impact from these games has been positive. Unfortunately there are a few areas in which The Legend of Zelda pioneered some very regrettable trends that gamers are still forced to deal with.
10base Tom

Ten Top Atari Video Games - By Brett Matthew West - 0 views

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    Atari began in 1972 as a pioneer in arcade games, video game consoles, and computers. Pong and the Atari 2600 helped define the entertainment industry for video games during the 1970s to the mid 1980s time frame. The Atari 2600 was the most successful game console designed and sold by Atari; unfortunately, Atari encountered financial problems during the infamous video game crash of 1983.
10base Tom

The 2 Legendary Nintendo 64 Games - By Dima Evtushenko - 0 views

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    One of the greatest old school video game consoles to ever be created was the famous Nintendo 64 console. This console was created as a "one step above" console to topple its Sony Playstation rival. It didn't necessarily topple it, but it did make some amazing games that really pioneered its respective genre to a whole new level. Here are some of the games that really made the Nintendo 64 truly what it is, an awesome video game console that really turned video games to a better direction in development.
10base Tom

Top 10 Video Games of the 80s - By Cheap Canuck - 0 views

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    Although the majority of today's gamers would laugh up their sleeves in derision if shown a classic video game from the 80s, the fact remains that this was really the decade that started the video game phenomenon, and the games that were the pioneers of this phenomenon, though graphically far inferior to today's offerings, were some of the most brilliantly craft, addictive games ever to grace a monitor or TV screen. Arcades ruled the day, with youth willing to do any odd job to earn a few quarters so they could run down to the local arcade and plug those quarters into games like Pac-Man, Defender, and Galaga. Most adults turned up their noses at these dark, musty caves with their overwhelming cacophony of beeps and blasts, but to kids these arcades were heaven on earth.
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