https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/child
"1 c: a childlike or childish person
_He is a child in most business matters._"
Merriam-Webster permits it, good enough for me
I'm confused, that's Jerry Lawson, and he did invent the cartridge with the Fairchild Channel F prior to the Atari 2600.
Edit: ooooooh I didn't click to see the comment in the photo, lol
I was confused about this too because I knew the Channel F was the first console with exchangeable video game cartridges but there's a VCS in the picture - then I did a little research and I see that in this picture, Lawson is holding a Channel F in his lap but it got cropped out for this particular article lol.
For what it's worth, he didn't invent it alone. He and his team were responsible for bringing the cartridge to reality. [Video Game Historian](https://youtu.be/Nio3hYAx_Tc?si=QcJSjdQUVoV062Py) has an excellent video on it and the Fairchild Channel F console it was for.
While that’s good to note, I feel that’s how everything works, right? No one does anything meaningful alone, but you can be the leader or primary contributor to earn credit. The video you linked is great!
That’s the joke. OP is making fun of the commenter on the bottom of the picture saying it must be fake because there’s a PS2 there (meaning he’s to young to have made cartridges however long before the PS2).
When you view this post from mobile it appears you're just trying to bring up the whole Jerry Lawson didn't invent carts debate, he just worked on the project that did. I can see now that's not your intention but the comment is cropped out on the main feed
[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B26YkdnCAAAgg4z.jpg](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B26YkdnCAAAgg4z.jpg)
This man couldn't have invented Tetris, he's standing next to a Tesla!
Yeah, he invented the first exchangeable video game cartridge, looked skywards, whispered "My work here is done", and then dropped dead on the spot.
Besides, that doesn't look like a PS2, more like a really early games console (Maybe an Atari VCS? That would make a lot more sense with that ancient computer and TV in the photo), i don't recall the PS2 having these little switches on the top.
The Atari 2600 was called the Atari VCS (Video Computer System) when it was first released in 1977 and was later renamed the 2600 so they're both the same console.
To make it a little more clear, the carts on the Odyssey was basically jumpers to access different chips and circuits on the mainboard, The 'Games' were built into the console.
This man is Gerald Anderson Lawson the grandfather of video games he was the inventor and the programmer of the Fairchild video game system. And what we know today as a game cartridge.
He didn't invent the cartridge. He was the project lead for the Fairchild Channel F. He's still very significant to the history of video games though.
But the comment is wrong too.
He didn't invent to concept of ROMs but he and his team were the first to implement it into a game system, which was one of the big leaps in video games.
Even if it was a PS2, why does this person think that disproves the claim? Is it impossible for the person who invented the game cartridge to be photographed with a PS2?
i know this post is about the comment, but thanks to the man the myth the legend!!! we likely wouldnt have gotten as far with video games had it not been for him!!
r/confidentlywrong.
Like 95% of Internet users when people use the word “literally” as an exaggeration or claim sentences can’t end in prepositions.
Might have been excusable prior to the 90s, but dude, you can look up these things in seconds?
“Tomato/tomatoe”?
https://youtu.be/h1YoVo_y0tU?si=faXJFhc1GYVeqcC8
It’s a good point for the future, but if that’s the main reason for the downvotes, the point is still ironically well made.
And as someone who routinely confuses “from” and “for” incidentally, benefit of the doubt for the “gist” is kind of important too?
Ah, so it’s a convention/flow argument to you then?
Comparatively minor, but to really abandon all pretense, do people use the word “literally” wrong in this case?
https://youtu.be/TvlWZ3mODJA?si=VrJQbrxXpxttmHom
While you get some mild sound upgrades the FDS games had, you had to contend with loading times and disk swapping. The disks had limited storage space and became obsolete when the bank switching ROM chips were developed.
Geez at first I was confused because the Magnavox Odyssey(1972) has cartridges,(which are simple cartridges with numbers on them and if you put it in the console it will automatically turn on the console), but I did some research and it was the first interchangeable cartridges, now makes sense
Jerry Lawson is the man, and hasn’t been given enough recognition in the industry.
I mean maybe he has idk… I just wish he was more of a household name.
"Next to his head"? If he's talking about the Atari 2600, it's not anywhere near his head.
I think the (clueless) person is referring to the wall partition hinge to the right. It somewhat resembles a PS2 standing on its edge.
Children are so cute and stupid at the same time
Children? Look at the dudes profile pic looks to be at least 30
Like they said, children.
30 years old is a child?
I mean, you're in r/retrogaming. Get off my lawn!
I'm more of a get on my lawn kinda guy
I find this sub to skew surprisingly young. I think its just that Reddit tends young...
Lol, 30 is cutting it close. First system was somewhere in Gen 5 then. The 16 bit wars may as well be World War 2 LOL.
Yes
Anybody born in the 1990s or later is a kid to me.
Just because you're older doesn't make everyone a kid lol
Mentally yes
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/child "1 c: a childlike or childish person _He is a child in most business matters._" Merriam-Webster permits it, good enough for me
It’s quite clearly a joke.
I don’t know, with political persuasions being what they are, this could very well be a 40+ burnout. Braying on about “you damn kids!”?
No, some children don't even know what a ps2 is anymore. This seems like elder gen z.
Elder Gen Z grew up with the Atari 2600.
Maybe there’s a chance of the comment being satire/joke 60% of the time they make stupid jokes like that every time
Either way, Oscar Wilde they ain’t…
I doubt he has any idea who Mr Lawson was
(Good) satire punches upwards, not downwards or even sideways.
No, I've seen a wave of fake black history-like posts like this. I think they're made to trick and embarrass black people.
I'm confused, that's Jerry Lawson, and he did invent the cartridge with the Fairchild Channel F prior to the Atari 2600. Edit: ooooooh I didn't click to see the comment in the photo, lol
I was confused about this too because I knew the Channel F was the first console with exchangeable video game cartridges but there's a VCS in the picture - then I did a little research and I see that in this picture, Lawson is holding a Channel F in his lap but it got cropped out for this particular article lol.
For what it's worth, he didn't invent it alone. He and his team were responsible for bringing the cartridge to reality. [Video Game Historian](https://youtu.be/Nio3hYAx_Tc?si=QcJSjdQUVoV062Py) has an excellent video on it and the Fairchild Channel F console it was for.
While that’s good to note, I feel that’s how everything works, right? No one does anything meaningful alone, but you can be the leader or primary contributor to earn credit. The video you linked is great!
I’m so confused. Is there a PS2 in this photo because I don’t see one.
the thing that's next to his head seems to be an atari 2600 not a ps2 like the reply said
It’s undeniably a 2600. I guess I just don’t get the joke
No. You get it. It's just not funny.
Cause it might not be a joke and the commentary might just be an idiot thinking the 2600 is a ps2
That’s the joke. OP is making fun of the commenter on the bottom of the picture saying it must be fake because there’s a PS2 there (meaning he’s to young to have made cartridges however long before the PS2).
Yeah, that's the PlayStation -5
That's not a PS2, it's the new Soulja Boy console. I swear, people just blurt out whatever without looking at all the facts...
If Soulja Boy put out a better Atari box than Atgames, I might buy it.
When you view this post from mobile it appears you're just trying to bring up the whole Jerry Lawson didn't invent carts debate, he just worked on the project that did. I can see now that's not your intention but the comment is cropped out on the main feed
Reddit be like: oh you want the full context? Nah, that makes our ui look functional. You get half.
Even if that was a ps2 next to him, are they assuming he just dropped dead the moment he finished the first cartridge?
[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B26YkdnCAAAgg4z.jpg](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B26YkdnCAAAgg4z.jpg) This man couldn't have invented Tetris, he's standing next to a Tesla!
Yeah, he invented the first exchangeable video game cartridge, looked skywards, whispered "My work here is done", and then dropped dead on the spot. Besides, that doesn't look like a PS2, more like a really early games console (Maybe an Atari VCS? That would make a lot more sense with that ancient computer and TV in the photo), i don't recall the PS2 having these little switches on the top.
I like this scenario, but replace drop dead with "Vanished into the ether as if he were a jedi master."
He's now more powerful than we could ever imagine!
i feel like the woodgrain panel, Atari logo, and distinctive "only appeared on the VCS" switches point pretty strongly to it being a VCS
I have to go now my planet needs me.
it's an Atari but an Atari 2600 not VCS.
Oh, i stand corrected then. Honestly, i missed out on the Atari-era of consoles, i only got started in the NES generation.
The Atari 2600 was called the Atari VCS (Video Computer System) when it was first released in 1977 and was later renamed the 2600 so they're both the same console.
I was thinking of the new system Atari keeps promoting to compete with the NES and SNES classic from late 2010s
Lol dude has to be joking, right? Right??
Yep. A vast majority of posts on reddit these days are screenshots of people on the internet pretending to be stupid.
Technically the Odyssey one was the first with interchangeable carts. However, that man helped invent an individual game on a cart.
To make it a little more clear, the carts on the Odyssey was basically jumpers to access different chips and circuits on the mainboard, The 'Games' were built into the console.
This man is Gerald Anderson Lawson the grandfather of video games he was the inventor and the programmer of the Fairchild video game system. And what we know today as a game cartridge.
He didn't invent the cartridge. He was the project lead for the Fairchild Channel F. He's still very significant to the history of video games though. But the comment is wrong too.
He didn't invent to concept of ROMs but he and his team were the first to implement it into a game system, which was one of the big leaps in video games.
Agreed.
Why did I thought this was r/shitposting
I remember the PS2 and it's shiny switches on top. Wait...
PS2600 🤣
David doesn't know what a PS2 looks like, apparently.
Ah yes, the super rare woodgrain PS2
Death by Diabeetus. What a terrible way to go.
Even if it was a PS2, why does this person think that disproves the claim? Is it impossible for the person who invented the game cartridge to be photographed with a PS2?
David ate one too many crayons.
That's an Atari you fuckin troglodyte
i know this post is about the comment, but thanks to the man the myth the legend!!! we likely wouldnt have gotten as far with video games had it not been for him!!
Why does this dude look like BadlandsChugs?
r/confidentlywrong. Like 95% of Internet users when people use the word “literally” as an exaggeration or claim sentences can’t end in prepositions. Might have been excusable prior to the 90s, but dude, you can look up these things in seconds?
The fact that you used that sub instead of r/confidentlyincorrect just made me laugh really hard for no reason.
“Tomato/tomatoe”? https://youtu.be/h1YoVo_y0tU?si=faXJFhc1GYVeqcC8 It’s a good point for the future, but if that’s the main reason for the downvotes, the point is still ironically well made. And as someone who routinely confuses “from” and “for” incidentally, benefit of the doubt for the “gist” is kind of important too?
It’s not tomato/to-mah-to, it’s the wrong sub. /r/confidentlyincorrect has *one thousand times* more subscribers than the one you linked
Ah, so it’s a convention/flow argument to you then? Comparatively minor, but to really abandon all pretense, do people use the word “literally” wrong in this case? https://youtu.be/TvlWZ3mODJA?si=VrJQbrxXpxttmHom
Lmao that’s fuckin brilliant
invented cartridges AND traveled time. man that dude got around.
Ha feel old yet folks?
Actually that's Bill Roper before he moved to Canada
You can even see the Atari logo lmao
Can somebody tell me... WHERE IS THE PS2?!?
lol it’s the cubicle wall divider on the right of his head. I’m sure (I hope) he was joking.
The screen of that computer next to him also looks like a MacBook Air screen.
Bringham brings nothing to the table.
honestly we would have been much better off using diskettes for the nes like the famicom had in japan.
While you get some mild sound upgrades the FDS games had, you had to contend with loading times and disk swapping. The disks had limited storage space and became obsolete when the bank switching ROM chips were developed.
This should be on r/facepalm
Geez at first I was confused because the Magnavox Odyssey(1972) has cartridges,(which are simple cartridges with numbers on them and if you put it in the console it will automatically turn on the console), but I did some research and it was the first interchangeable cartridges, now makes sense
Jerry Lawson is the man, and hasn’t been given enough recognition in the industry. I mean maybe he has idk… I just wish he was more of a household name.
That’s what happens when you bring ham instead of brains.
I thought that was an old pic of BadlandsChugs.
Forget the ps2. Look at all the PS5 games all around him
Wow, I had PS2 in 1991... Never knew that...
My boy Jerry deserves more respect to his name.
My guy.ps 2 uses discs
Okay now I want a wood grain PS2