![]() For years, his contributions to the video game industry went largely unheralded, but in the past decade his influence has come back to light, leading to the creation of the Jerry A. ![]() Lawson moved on to start Videosoft, the first Black-founded gaming company, but he left the industry in 1985 to focus on mentoring students at Stanford. The Channel F system beat Atari's console to market in 1976, but was discontinued in 1979 and the brand was sold. Meanwhile, he worked on the first iteration of "Pong" with a team that would later go on to found Atari. He helped develop the Fairfield Channel F system (short for "Channel Fun"), the first video game console to integrate cartridges and a joystick. Lawson attended Queens College and City College of New York before moving to Palo Alto in 1968 to work for Fairchild Semiconductor as an engineering consultant.
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