{"id":1432,"date":"2011-04-12T03:00:12","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T23:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/?p=1432"},"modified":"2011-04-12T03:00:12","modified_gmt":"2011-04-11T23:00:12","slug":"inventor-of-the-video-game-cartridge-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/inventor-of-the-video-game-cartridge-passes\/","title":{"rendered":"Inventor of the Video Game Cartridge passes."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jerry Lawson, who developed the revolutionary gaming technology on the 1970&#8217;s, passed away on Saturday, 09 April 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Before Lawson developed his programmable cartridges for the Channel F system in 1976, the available game systems were limited to whatever games that had been pre-built into the console. The ability to have a separate cartridge that contained the code for the games helped to change the way gaming technology could develop, and opened the doors for early giants such as the Atari 2600 a year later.<\/p>\n<p>Although Lawson remained relatively obscure, despite his work, he was formally recognized last month by the International Game Developers Association for all of his contributions to the industry. These include a number of games and software he developed, both for Fairchild Semiconductor and later for Atari, through his company called Videosoft.<\/p>\n<p>Source <a href=\"http:\/\/www.1up.com\/news\/video-game-pioneer-jerry-lawson-dies\">1up.com<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/business\/ci_17531389?nclick_check=1\">Mercury News<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Jerry-Lawson.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1433\" title=\"Jerry Lawson\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Jerry-Lawson.jpg?resize=160%2C214\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"214\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jerry Lawson, who developed the revolutionary gaming technology on the 1970&#8217;s, passed away on Saturday, 09 April 2011. Before Lawson developed his programmable cartridges for the Channel F system in 1976, the available game systems were limited to whatever games that had been pre-built into the console. The ability to have a separate cartridge that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1opIU-n6","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15629,"url":"https:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/ataribox-console-is-officially-named-the-atari-vcs\/","url_meta":{"origin":1432,"position":0},"title":"Ataribox Console Is Officially Named the Atari VCS\u00a0","author":"Forbidden Panel","date":"March 21, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Atari's upcoming console, its first in 20 years, is officially named Atari VCS. 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