Today's Google Doodle, 1 December 2022, features a breakthrough engineer, showing him with a game console in his hand. The featured figure is Gerald "Jerry" Lawson, and today would be his 82nd birthday. Gerald "Jerry" Lawson was one of the few figures in modern gaming history who led a team that developed video games based on the interchangeable game "cartridge" concept.

Before his breakthrough invention, video games could only be played on arcade machines or game consoles, and each of those platforms could only play one game. Jerry was the one who introduced the game system via disk or cassette for the first time through an object called a cartridge. Jerry was a pioneer in the development of video game consoles with the cartridge concept in the 1970s, which paved ways for video games to be stored as software on removable media, such as cartridges to disks, just as gamers nowadays enjoy.

Jerry Lawson was born in Brooklyn, New York, United States on 1 December 1940. Although he was not born into an affluent family, Jerry's parents supported him to pursue higher education as they knew he had an interest in computers. Even though he didn't finish it, Jerry studied at Queens College and City College of New York. Then it all started with Jerry fixing televisions around his neighborhood and earning money from doing it so he could build his own radio station using recycled components.

After that, he moved to California, where he joined Fairchild Semiconductor as an applications engineering consultant. A few years later, Lawson was promoted to Director of Engineering and Marketing for Fairchild's Video Game Department, where he led the development of the Fairchild Channel F console, which was the first home console video game system to feature interchangeable game cartridges, an 8-way digital joystick, and a pause button. The Channel F then paved the way for future video game systems such as Atari, SNES, Dreamcast, and many others.

Then in 1980, Lawson left Fairchild to start his own company, Videosoft, which became the first African-American-owned video game development company. His company successfully created software for the Atari 2600, which popularized the cartridge Lawson and his team had developed. Although the company closed five years later, Lawson made his name as one of the pioneers in video game development with his amazing career.

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