Don Tate

Jerry Changed the Game! (eBook, ePUB)

How Engineer Jerry Lawson Revolutionized Video Games Forever
Illustrator: Harris, Cherise

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 engineera professional tinkererand 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 Americanowned 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!

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 40
• Altersempfehlung: ab 4 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781665919098
• Artikelnr.: 67406264

Autorenporträt

Don Tate is the award-winning creator of numerous picture book biographies, including Pigskins to Paintbrushes: The Story of Football-Playing Artist Ernie Barnes and William Still and His Freedom Stories: The Father of the Underground Railroad. He is a founding host of The Brown Bookshelf, a website that celebrates the myriad of African American voices writing for young readers. Tate's accolades include an Ezra Jack Keats Book Award and Honor, a Carter G. Woodson Book Award and Honor, two Christopher Awards, and several others. He lives with his family in Austin, Texas, and he invites you to visit him online at DonTate.com.