November 1976 · Computer or hardware
Fairchild Channel F (1976)
The first home console to use a microprocessor and ROM cartridges.
It introduced the first pause function and built-in Hockey and Tennis. Its slow-paced games sold poorly against the Atari 2600 and Fairchild left the market by 1979.
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Facts
- Date
- November 1976
- Kind
- Computer or hardware: Home console
- Maker or publisher
- Fairchild
- CPU
- Fairchild F8 @ 1.79 MHz
- RAM
- 64 bytes + 2 KB VRAM
- Graphics
- 128x64, 8 colors
- Media
- Videocart
- Units sold
- about 350,000
- Generation
- 2nd
- First sold in
- North America
- Notable games
- Hockey; Tennis; Pinball Challenge; Video Blackjack; Space War; Robot War
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- Atari 2600 (VCS) (rival, 1977)
- Magnavox Odyssey (predecessor, 1972)
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