This Black Game Changer

Diop Papa Makhtar
2 min readJan 27, 2021
Jerry lawson inventor of Game cartridges

we got the game’s cartridges with the practice of a passionate black engineer, Jerry Lawson. In his garage, this man just transformed an entire industry that now is a market of billions and billions of dollars mainly driven by streaming and online game delivery, not cartridges anymore. But the invention of the cartridge has made this industry expand and scale. For me, He doesn't still get the merit and recognition he deserves. People with passion and skills do have the power to transform our lifestyle as all these internet and computer entrepreneurs did. From Shanon, Alan Turing, Ada grace to bill Gates and Steve Jobs until now Zuckerberg, Jerry Lawson is one of these men and women who shaped our world with ingeniosity and care. I was drafting another game idea (The World War of Brands) while I said to myself that I should write about this black African American genius for claiming my recognition of his work as I used to play with cartridge with my sega Console years ago when I was Kid. I still have a picture of me playing with this console and just yesterday was talking about Moon Walker this game that featured Michael Jackson another black genius that shaped the world with dance and music. I will try to make a rant about Mark E. Dean this other black man that revolutionized the computer world with the ISA bus. And remember that Isa bus allowed computers to go faster than this bus.

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