The Channel F is the first programmable video game system, including plug-in cartridges containing ROM and microprocessor code slightly than dedicated circuits. Not a very general or entertaining method, it was nonetheless important at the time for having several previous features which were imitated by later more successful video game systems. Fairchild released 26 different cartridges for this video game system, with up to four games being on each cartridge. The games included sports (Hockey, Tennis and Baseball, educational, such as Maths Quiz, board games, such as Checkers, and shooting games, such as Space War). The cartridges had labels that enclosed the game instructions on them and each were given a sequential number. Fairchild ongoing a trend in tiresome to boost game sales by numbering them and so appealing to consumers who wanted to collect their collection.
The Channel F console's famous lowered when the Atari released their VCS in 1977 because the VCS had much better games, graphics and sound.
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