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To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video All right, listen up, gamers. Gerald Lawson is the pioneer of games you almost never hear about. Suggested Reading Why Are There Still Black People Listening To R. Kelly At The Summer Cookouts — And What Does…

All right, listen up, gamers. Gerald Lawson is the pioneer of games you almost never hear about.

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In the mid-โ€™70s, he perfected the game cartridge, making it possible to play multiple video games at home. As a teenager, the electronics genius operated a radio station from a housing project in the Jamaica neighborhood of New York Cityโ€™s Queens borough and created the arcade game โ€œDemolition Derbyโ€ in his garage in the early โ€™70s.

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