Those cartridges were used in the Fairchild Channel F, the console Lawson helped develop along with Ron Smith and Nick Talesfore. While it never set the world on fire during its tenure on retail ...

Nowadays, video game consoles are a ubiquitous piece of hardware in many households. Maybe you have a Switch hooked up in the ...

Gerald A. "Jerry" Lawson, the American electronics engineer credited with creating the world's first cartridge-based videogame system, has passed away at the age of 70.

A black engineer and video game developer named Jerry Lawson paved the way for Atari, Nintendo and Sega in designing the first cartridge-based video game console.

FastCompany.com has put out an in-depth retrospective on the very first video game console to use cartridges, ... Atari and RCA who were in the midst of making their own cartridge-based consoles.

If you read about Atari issuing a new cartridge of a new Atari 2600 game and your first thought was, "What am I supposed to play this on?" there's an answer for you. Today, the company announced ...

Downloadable games were big at this year's E3, but they're nothing new. Here's a the history of downloadable games--and what to expect in next-generation consoles.