And in 2021, Google celebrated pho, the aromatic and savory soup that's popular in Vietnam.īut if you would rather play with your food than read about it, Google baked up an interactive pizza puzzle game last year that challenges your slicing skills. In 2019, it created an animated Doodle featuring falafel. In 2017, Google cooked up a slideshow to honor the rice noodle. This isn't the first time Google has put food in the Doodle spotlight. The competition is particularly sticky and steamy between Nigerians and Ghanaians, which have distinct cooking styles, creating a cultural phenomenon that's spawned many viral music videos, songs and cookoffs.

It's also known as benachin in Gambia and Senegal.Įach nation has its own variant of the dish, with each country vying to be known as home to the best jollof in a friendly rivalry among nations known as the Jollof Wars. Interchangeable ROM-based cartridges were a massive breakthrough that let users build entire libraries rather than playing one game ad nauseam.The dish's name and origins stretch back to the 14th century, when the Jollof Empire ruled parts of modern-day Senegal, the Gambia and Mauritania. The Channel F (the “F” stood for “fun”) was the first system with interchangeable game cartridges, a novel concept in an era when games were permanently coded into hardware. In 1976, the company released the Fairchild Channel F home console, with Lawson serving as lead developer. Lawson was known as the “father of the video game cartridge,” which he developed as Director of Engineering and Marketing at Fairchild Semiconductor.

The Doodles’ creators want to inspire young people to follow in his footsteps, and it includes a built-in level editor and creator to nudge them on that path.

The Doodle lets you play five retro pixel-art platformers in your browser - with two even letting you play as Lawson. The Doodles’ creators want to inspire young people to. The Doodle lets you play five retro pixel-art platformers in your browser with two even letting you play as Lawson. Google’s interactive Doodle today celebrates the life and accomplishments of video game pioneer Gerald “Jerry” Lawson on what would have been his 82nd birthday. Google’s interactive Doodle today celebrates the life and accomplishments of video game pioneer Gerald Jerry Lawson on what would have been his 82nd birthday.

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