[game_preservation] Gerald A Lawson Dies

[Martin Goldberg]

Devin, guess you didn't see that when I posted about it on facebook a
few days ago. ;)

If it had to happen, I was glad it happened after his IGDA
recognition.  Weird timing though as well - my 2 page article on
Gerald and the Channel F is in this month's issue of RetroGamer
(Missile Command on the cover).


Marty



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

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