In 1974, Alpex Computer Corporation employees licensed the technology to Fairchild, who turned the prototype into a viable console. "Channel Fun" was the first video game console to use ROM cartridges, instead of having games built-in. The first console to use a microprocessor, it sold only 350,000 units before Fairchild sold the technology to Zircon International in 1979. Trailing well behind Atari, the system was discontinued in 1983. The prototype's complex keyboard controls were turned into an 8 degree of freedom hand controller.
Below is the videogame library for browsing at random.
'Tic-Tac-Toe; Shooting Gallery Doodle; Quadra Doodle :Videocart 1'
'Space War :Videocart 5'
'Maze :Videocart 10'
'Sonar Search :Videocart 14'
'Kickball :Videocart 20'
'Desert Fox; Shooting Gallery :Videocart 20'
'Math Quiz 1 :Videocart 6'
'Backgammon; Acey-Deucey :Videocart 11'
'Memory Match :Videocart 15'
'Bowling :Videocart 21'
'Blackjack :Videocart 3'
'Magic Numbers :Videocart 8'
'Baseball :Videocart 12'
'Dodge It :Videocart 16'
'Galactic Space Wars :Videocart 23'
'Spitfire :Videocart 23'
'Drag Strip :Videocart 9'
'Robot War; Torpedo Alley :Videocart 13'
'Pinball Challenge :Videocart 17'
'Chess' :Videocart 50
Our Fairchild Channel F collection is 65% complete.
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