Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by samstave 1955 days ago
Some Famous Inventions by Black inventors:

The Game Cartridge

The Super Soaker Squirt Gun
1 comments
arthur_pryor 1955 days ago
> The Game Cartridge

yeah, i was slightly surprised that jerry lawson (inventor of the game cartridge) wasn't mentioned.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Lawson_(engineer)

link
benjohnson 1955 days ago
Why does Jerry get the credit for cartridges? The Magnavox Odessey had cartridges about four years before the Model F.

I could see him getting credit for ROM cartridges - as I understand it the Odessey cartridges changed game play but didn't contain code.

link