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The Fairchild Channel F sold only about 350,000 units before Fairchild sold the technology to Zircon International in 1979, trailing well behind the Atari VCS. [1] The system was discontinued in 1983.
Apr 30, 2024 · Zircon continued selling the Channel F as a budget console until 1983, but in spite of being first to market, the Channel F ended up being an also ran. It sold 350,000 units when Atari sold closer to 30 million units during its console’s lifetime.
It has the distinction of being the first programmable ROM cartridge–based video game console, and the first console to use a microprocessor. It was launched as the Fairchild Video Entertainment System, or Fairchild VES for short, but when Atari released their Atari Video Computer System, Atari VCS, later Atari 2600 the next year, Fairchild ...
The release of Fairchild's system the year before, and the subsequent release of Atari's system, had set in to motion what would become known as the "First Videogame Crash."
It was launched as the Video Entertainment System, or VES, but when Atari released their VCS the next year, Fairchild renamed its machine. The Channel F was designed by Jerry Lawson using the Fairchild F8 CPU, the first public outing of this processor.
Dec 11, 2021 · The first console to actually use cartridges that contained a program and not just an inert circuit was 1976’s Fairchild Channel F, predating the Atari VCS by a year. Finally, a game was...
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The Fairchild Channel F, short for "Channel Fun", was the first video game console to use ROM cartridges, instead having games built-in, and the first console to use a microprocessor. It was released by Fairchild Camera and Instrument in November 1976 across North America at a retail price of US$169.95 (equivalent to $763.58 in 2019).
