Name: Jerry Changed the Game!: How Engineer Jerry Lawson Revolutionized Video Games Forever (in English)
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Author: Tate, Don ; Harris, Cherise
ISBN: 9781665919081

portada Jerry Changed the Game!: How Engineer Jerry Lawson Revolutionized Video Games Forever (in English)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Don Tate

Publisher

Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books

Language

English

Pages

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

30.2 x 23.2 x 1.2 cm

Weight

0.58 kg.

ISBN13

9781665919081

Synopsis "Jerry Changed the Game!: How Engineer Jerry Lawson Revolutionized Video Games Forever (in English)"

Junior Library Guild Selection Eureka! Excellence in Nonfiction Honor CBC Best STEM Book List Mathical Book Prize Honor BCALA Youth Literary Nonfiction Award Communication Arts Illustration Shortlist Meet Jerry Lawson, the Black engineer who revolutionized the video game industry, in this engaging picture book biography perfect for fans of Whoosh!: Lonnie Johnson's Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions and Little Legends: Exceptional Men in Black History. Before Xbox, PlayStation, or Nintendo Switch, there was a tinkerer named Jerry Lawson. As a boy, Jerry loved playing with springs, sprockets, and gadget-y things. When he grew up, Jerry became an engineer--a professional tinkerer--and in the 1970s, he turned his technical know-how to video games. Back then, if players wanted a new video game, they had to buy an entire new console, making gaming very expensive. Jerry was determined to fix this problem, and despite roadblocks along the way and having to repeat a level or two, it was never game over for his mission. Eventually, he leveled up and built a brand-new kind of video game console: one that allowed players to switch out cartridges! He also founded Video Soft, Inc., the first African American-owned video game company in the country. Jerry's tinkering and inventions changed the video gaming world forever. Today, gamers have access to hundreds of video games at the push of a button, all thanks to him. Game on!

Don Tate

(Author)

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Autor de numerosas biografías de libros ilustrados galardonados e ilustrador de más de ochenta libros comerciales y educativos para jóvenes aclamados por la crítica. Además de escribir e ilustrar, presenta en escuelas primarias, conferencias de lectura y escritura, festivales literarios y de libros. Es fundador de The Brown Bookshelf, un blog dedicado a promover la literatura juvenil creada por autores negros.

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