Watch: You Have a Black Man to Thank for Your Video Games

All right, listen up, gamers. Gerald Lawson is the pioneer of games you almost never hear about. Suggested Reading Expert Tips to Help Black Families Navigate Dementia Care 5 Things You Won’t See In New Michael Jackson Movie Charles Barkely And Michael Jordan Squash Their Decades-Long Beef Video will return here when scrolled back into…

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

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In the mid-’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 City’s Queens borough and created the arcade game “Demolition Derby” in his garage in the early ’70s.

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