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The Fairchild Channel F came out in 1976 and is one of the first systems with interchangable cartridges.
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@KingpinOfSteel295 11 лет назад

Fairchild 30+ years old still works Xbox 360 3 years old. Has red ring of death Wtf lol

@CentiZen 10 лет назад

The fairchild has around 100,000 transistors in it, while the 360 has 165 million in just the main CPU. There's just so much more in that system to fail.

@amberb9701 8 лет назад

+Centi Zen It has nothing to do with what's in it. It's Microsoft's fault for designing the system with loose heat sinks and lead-free solder.

@CentiZen 8 лет назад

Chris B So your telling me you think an 8080 chip would fail in the same way if it was designed with loose heat sinks and lead free solder? I don't disagree with you, but saying it has nothing to do with what's in it is wrong.

@amberb9701 8 лет назад

Centi Zen No. Chips below 100 MHz don't require the same heating solution as modern chips.

@circletree 13 лет назад

my parents owned a furniture store in the 1970s and they sold these in the store....i would hurry there after school each day to play it on the huge console TV. I loved the drag racing game, the early version of paint, and blackjack.

@PatrykdeRosa 4 месяца назад

my middle school friend had this console. he also had the Atari 2600, but we enjoyed playing this as well. thanks for taking me back!

@camillesmith310 10 лет назад

The lead engineer of the Fairchild F was Mr. Gerald A. Lawson!

@1moreToney 8 лет назад

+Camille Smith Never heard of the guy until today. A Black man.

@Dios67 6 лет назад

Jerry was definitely involved but the prototype was invented by two engineers at a company called Alpex. it was leased to Fairchild who created the Channel F. More info here- www.fastcompany.com/3040889/the-untold-story-of-the-invention-of-the-game-cartridge

@SalveMonesvol 11 лет назад

These games display a series of very interesting concepts, from acceleration to bullet time, really interesting indeed.

@BlinkerUser 11 лет назад

I had one of these as a kid! I could never remember the name of it, just that it had a triangle shaped joystick on top. Sweet!

@Gamester81 14 лет назад

@JOESONYNERD Hey Joe, yes $40 is a great deal. Pick it up if you can still.

@tvandlust 15 лет назад

Great review man. Don't forget -- the knobs on the controllers also pull up! My fiancee compared the controllers to a Bop It, haha.

@alphamale1865 10 лет назад

i had one of these when i was a kid in the 70s no idea where is anymore.

@King_K_Rool_ 13 лет назад

that looks amazingly sleek for a console from the 70s

@theawesomegamr 12 лет назад

my favorite part of the intro was the vectrex :D I AM TOTALY IN LOVE WITH THE VECTREX!!!

@e5frog 15 лет назад

I assume you mean it's the type that has a button apart from the model that doesn't have a button (you press knob down for fire).

@greghol 11 лет назад

1:35 Come again.. The two (Noyce and Gordon) who left Fairchild to form Intel did so in 1968. So the Channel F was in development since 68? 8 years? Don't think so. The Channel F uses the Fairchild F8 CPU which was a response to the Intel 8008 CPU. Backwards.

@TheDevilBurning 15 лет назад

8track + gamers = Vintage Fairchild Channel F System LOL awesome video never even heard of this system man! i saw another guy comment that you have the rarest game systems and by god he was right!

@raztendo3540 12 лет назад

I just bought the Luxor entertainment system boxed, and that was the name before it changed to Fairchild. I think my luxor is pretty rare?? What u think???

@Gamester81 15 лет назад

The games are ok. I recommend this system if you plan on collecting, but replay value isn't that strong.

@e5frog 8 лет назад

It's also supposed to be the first consumer videogame that you can play against the machine/program (AI).

@Gamester81 14 лет назад

@ashenclone Actually both pretty much hit the market at the same time.

@peterp21 13 лет назад

Very very cool video. I always enjoy watching vintage console reviews. Especially the lesser known systems that came out the same time as Atari 2600 or even preceded it. BTW, that was a particularly nice specimen you picked up. Can't believe it has all the original manuals and advertising. Wow.

@joshuavideogames 13 лет назад

High definition graphics!

@davidfox8791 5 лет назад

Spaceinvader Was a good game for the Channel f and pacman

@goodveiwer1881 12 лет назад

it was the 2nd one interchangeable carts the Odyssey was 1st

@15Th15f0rR34l 13 лет назад

RIP Gerald A. Lawson :(

@Gamester81 15 лет назад

Thanks for the compliment my friend. Good luck with your search for this system.

@RetroGameLivingRoom 10 лет назад

Hey man. I wanted to tell you that the console does have an on/off switch in the back. I have the same one as you.

@jonpelachick5193 7 лет назад

How can I hook up one of these to a CRT TV without the switchbox? The video cable is not the standard RCA style, so is there any adapter that I can purchase that will convert it to standard male coax?

@exodia9817 9 лет назад

The company that Fairchild sold the rights to the Channel F to was a watch making company called Zircon.

@asa-punkatsouthvinland7145 3 года назад

So which came out first Channel F's Desert Fox or Atari 2600's Combat?

@Chubzdoomer 13 лет назад

This looks like a seriously underrated console, especially considering it's technically the first ever cartridge-based one.

@morganmetzger5832 3 года назад

First system with cartridges my butt. My odyssey from 72 has cartridges. Flippin internet with its misleading info. Spreads like a plague.

@Hurts2P 8 лет назад

Hey Gamestar81. Do you know who's eyeball is in this video at 5:42.Would you like to know?

@KingpinOfSteel295 11 лет назад

Fairchild 30+ years old still works Xbox 360 3 years old. Has red ring of death Wtf lol

@Gamester81 15 лет назад

Cool I'll check it out. Thanks.

@theboys9657 4 года назад

Different no on and off switch

@AutoWorldTube 14 лет назад

This system better than a wii !

@BeerBellyDK 15 лет назад

Nice one.. Here in Denmark it's called the SABA Videoplay.. It does not look nearly as cool as your version.. Just black and boring.. Still the same yellow cartridges though.. I really really wan't one, but they are kind of hard to find in our little country.. I will probably end up finding one in Germany.. Anyway, keep the reviews coming, they are great, and i love hearing the history of these old machines.. :)

@warrengonline 14 лет назад

I had this system, some family in Ocala was having a yard sale and I ALWAYS begged my parents to stop when I was with them. Well, one day my Mom went into town and stopped at a yard sale with out me. 'The Seller' saw my Mom looking at it and pawed it off on her for like $20 buck and gave her a "foot controller" (LIES). Being the curious kid, I learned that my Mom was lied to, but I did not have those controls - I had to use the Star Control pad to play game. AWKWARD, but fun as a kid.

@fjccommish 13 лет назад

What if the controllers break?

@e5frog 15 лет назад

It's a "Video Command" it was released by Zircon after they took over the Fairchild System. There are two different types, one with and one without an extra red firebutton on the front upper part of the handle.

@mp4podcastDOTcom 13 лет назад

Fairchild Channel F System 33 years old and still works and your XBOX 360 is three years old and Red Ring. LOL I had two XBOX 360 that RED RING on me.

@e5frog 15 лет назад

I don't understand how it would look like a Fairchild Channel F controller, do you have a picture? You can write web-adresses if you put random spaces in the address...

@mireaux7 14 лет назад

thanks for posting this vid. its good to educate todays youth about gaming's beginnings. most kids today know nothing of any system before playstation 1. any console before atari 2600 is pretty much a rare collector's item today. still got my 2600 with about 35 games..works like a charm. theres just something about simplistic addictive gameplay that today's complex & intuitive games just cant hold a candle to.

@wmft2024 4 года назад

Not true...the Odyssey 1 was the first cart game system

@CyclopticPanda666 14 лет назад

My dad got it when it first came out on his 13th birthday, and found it a few months ago at my grandmas I was upset because the audio worked, but the video didn't work it looks far superior to the atari 2600, and u can even play virtual blackjack on it. The second oldest system I have is the n64. I don't have a 360 or a ps3 though.

@estlibold 13 лет назад

does this console had any kind of sidescrollers? i suspect not. if so, can it be possible to create a sidescroller on this thing?

@NightSprinter 13 лет назад

I've the Channel-F II, and a friend gave it to me for a holiday gift. He got it with five games (including rare titles like Alien Invasion) for only .. ten dollars I think? (He found it at the Goodwill he works at).

@illustriouschin 13 лет назад

As far as the Pong centric systems go this one is fairly impressive i think. I don't know what it is fully capable of but i like how the pixels are square rather than rectangular like what the Atari 2600 had.

@meanmanturbo 12 лет назад

Hah, this system was actually license built in Sweden under the Luxor brand. Oh, those were the times when it was actually commercially viable to do that kind of thing for such a small market.

@carnstar 13 лет назад

lol i love how gamester talk nice a relaxed but what made me laugh is how hes saying "which is a piece of shit!... ill make a review on it later lol... just how he was really mad about the rca lol

@davinsroom 15 лет назад

Yes, just a simple arcade joystick with a button next to it. Not a fighter-style joystick with a trigger button.

@LordStormdragon 14 лет назад

I feel like such a dork - I have one of these and couldn't test it because I couldn't find the power button - I thought the switch in the back was a Channel 3/Channel 4 switch! You rock!

@sinistermoon 15 лет назад

Way awesome man. I have always wanted one of those. That tank game looks awesome. Way cool video.

@badassmotha2k 11 лет назад

This is the third time I looked up an old piece of hardware and ended up clicking on a gamester81 video without realizing, even tho I'm a subscriber. Its a nice surprise.

@super00su 13 лет назад

@Gamester81 8:39 Desert Fox is just like Call of Duty, free for all, kill, you get a point, you die you come right back, the one at the end that has the most kills wins...LOL

@FairPlay137 11 лет назад

Man, things were more durable back in the day...

@rick242113 12 лет назад

I bought one of these when my kids were young in the 70s and 80s. We had more fun with the maze game. I just got rid of it last year. Should have kept it.

@jackson5116 7 лет назад

You don't consider Odyssey's games as cartridges?

@nemoskia98 11 лет назад

i know this video is like 4 years old but you fucked up that intro. You forgot to edit out the audio of background noises when you added in the music

@Maus5000 14 лет назад

Now I know this is a question asked to you all the time, but did I make a good deal? I got one in the oribinal box complete with 4 boxed games for $150.

@MasterKofficial 14 лет назад

nice one. i have the german license version called "Saba Videoplay" with 6 games in Box :)

@Maus5000 14 лет назад

@ATARI800XLfan I'm just gonna add my two cents and say that the pong game on this is one of the most bad ass pong games ever made.

@noname4422 12 лет назад

The Fairchild Channel F came out in 1976 and is one of the first systems with interchangable cartridges. Not one of. The first.

@Wolfen443 13 лет назад

Very cool, 2 cavemen disliked the machine that made possible for them to play every game they have to choose from now.

@tannerin 12 лет назад

I'd love to try out one of these. And people thought the Atari 2600 was original!

@dogeymon83 15 лет назад

I like how casually you say, ".....the RCA 2 which is a piece of shit." LMAO!!!!!

@davinsroom 15 лет назад

Thanks for the info! On mine there's only 1 button besides the joystick, no more.

@masterdouglas 11 лет назад

You and this video are mentioned in the Channel F chapter in Before The Crash.

@chrisdietrich2010 11 лет назад

I got one of these at a garage sale for $5 in the 90's. Regret selling my console collection in 2001

@Nubbpiraten 15 лет назад

Hi Gamester 81! Have you seen my review of the swedish version? if not, check it out :) /Nubbpiraten

@ZavenT 13 лет назад

@Gamester81 I saw one for $150 in box, is that a good deal? Im not going to buy it but just asking

@ATARI800XLfan 15 лет назад

Nice video. I was wondering would you recommend getting the system if I already have a Atari 7800.

@ΑΛΥΌΛ 13 лет назад

i love this system i always wanted to play this console where did you buy it gamester81

@davinsroom 15 лет назад

I have a C64 joystick that looks just like one of those controllers!

@robertleeluben 12 лет назад

I played on one a few times when I was a kid, the joysticks were pretty nice iirc.

@eateroftheflame 13 лет назад

33 years and it still works, Microsoft should learn from these things.

@CMBRetrospective 15 лет назад

Great video man, looks like a cool super retro console!

@neonrider93 11 лет назад

do you have pac man on the channel f? i'd like to see a review of it

@scruffziller 14 лет назад

Wow. One of the guys who designed this system helped started INTEL.

@CyanideSublime 10 лет назад

It looks like a shipping scale.

@dragon__blades 13 лет назад

r.i.p. jerry lawsen creator of the first video game cartridge :(

@Dios67 6 лет назад

Not really but Jerry was involved. Two engineers at a company called Alpex invented the prototype and leased it to Fairchild. More info here- www.fastcompany.com/3040889/the-untold-story-of-the-invention-of-the-game-cartridge