Lawson will be remembered as the operative of the initial cartridge-based diversion console (with a postponement option!), the Fairchild Channel F , that launched in Aug 1976 as the Video Entertainment System (VES). He was moreover the usually black associate of the mythological Homebrew Computer Club , shaped in Silicon Valley in the mid-70s.
In the early 1980s he founded and ran Videosoft, that created a handful of games is to Atari 2600. Additionally, Lawson's Demolition Derby was a of the initial coin-op colonnade machines, constructed in his garage in the early '70s and commissioned in a southern California pizzeria before long after Pong debuted. One of its key pattern features prevented players from hidden "free" games by jiggling the silver switch.
Just final month, Lawson was respected during the 7th Annual IGDA Minority Special Interest Group Social Gathering at GDC. Shortly before the event, he was profiled by the San Jose Mercury News. More about his life is suggested in a 2009 talk with Vintage Computing and Gaming.
[Photo credit: Maria J Avila Lopez/ Mercury News ]
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