[game_preservation] Gerald A Lawson Dies

[Devin Monnens]

http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2011/04/jerry-lawson-dies/

<http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2011/04/jerry-lawson-dies/>Wired has another
excellent article by Chris Kohler. I also contacted Joseph Saulter, head of
the IGDA Diversity SIG via Facebook (I am surprised at how...empty a lot of
the SIG websites are. Does this have to do with the move?). There are some
fantastic links in this article including video interviews and a thread on
Digital Press with some anecdotes and information on a keynote he gave in
2004.

On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 6:42 PM, Devin Monnens <dmonnens at gmail.com> wrote:


> I failed to read this far into the New York Times this morning, but this

> afternoon I discovered that Gerald A Lawson, the creator of the Channel F

> and Demolition Derby, died on April 9. It's funny because I *just* read

> about him in *Replay* (reading through it now) and he also appeared at GDC

> though none of us seems to have known about this! The article also mentions

> that Lawson received an award from the IGDA (I think this was at the IGDA

> Diversity Ceremony across the street...). Being both a pioneer in game

> design and electronics engineering through the invention of interchangeable

> game cartridges, Lawson was also black - a rarity in the field both then and

> now (IGDA Diversity reports only 2% of the industry is black). Lawson was

> 70, and I hope he remains an inspiration to us all.

>

> http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/14/technology/personaltech/14lawson.html

>

> http://praiseindy.com/national/wtlcam/african-american-gaming-pioneer-gerald-a-lawson-dies/

>

>

>

> http://www.youtube.com/user/IGDAGameDiversity?feature=mhum#p/a/u/0/-b1gnCMeiJI -

> Fantastic information on Mr. Lawson from GDC via IGDA Diversity SIG

>

> By the way, was anyone here aware Mr. Lawson was at GDC?

>

> --

> Devin Monnens

> www.deserthat.com

>

> The sleep of Reason produces monsters.

>




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