Jerry Lawson

CTL-E-1059 · Institution · other · 1970s-1980s

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Electrical engineer who led the team that created the Fairchild Channel F (1976), the first cartridge-based home game console, then founded Video Soft (1982), the first Black-owned video game development company.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from TECH-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-TECH-001:TECH-E-050; source research type(s): None.

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Google Arts & Culture (The Strong National Museum of Play) (primary source)
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