Gerald Jerry Lawson, an electronic engineer, was born on December 1st, 1940, in the United States. Lawson was born and reared in Brooklyn, New York City. His father, Blanton, was a longshoreman who loved science, and his mother, Mannings, worked for the city. His mother also belonged to the Parents-Teachers Association of the neighbourhood school.
He is well-known for founding the Fairchild Channel F video game system as well as for directing the team that created the commercial video game cartridge. He was referred to as the “father of the videogame cartridge” by Black Enterprise magazine in 1982. Later, he left Fairchild and founded Video-Soft, a video game company.
In 1970, he began working as an applications engineering consultant for Fairchild Semiconductor’s sales division in San Francisco. Demolition Derby was an early coin-operated arcade game that he created
Lawson was recognized as an industry pioneer by the International Game Developers Association in March 2011 for his work on the game cartridge idea (IGDA).
Gerald Jerry Lawson’s net worth
At the time of his passing, Jerry Lawson’s estimated net worth was $2 million.
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