Game Cartridge Technology - Icons of the 20th Century - Perfect for the Game Room

About this Artwork  This is a mixed media artwork exhibiting a collection of game console cartridges used in various games. The cartridges selected for this artwork best represent the game technology and market from the last century. This collection covers a period of about 25 years, 1976 to 1999. The increase in game processing power during this period is over 750 times. In the beginning, games started out with 8 colors and by 1996 were using over 16 million colors. These games went from a resolution of fewer than 6,000 pixels to over 300,000. Before 1976, game consoles came with a fixed set of games, most based on the PONG video game. Jerry Lawson, of Fairchild Semiconductor and one of the few black engineers in the industry at the time, led a team of software, hardware, industrial engineers, and artists to develop the innovative Channel F. Building a removable cartridge was not a simple task electrically nor mechanically. The console and the cartridge had to be protected from the us