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The Fairchild Channel F is a game console released by Fairchild Semiconductor in November 1976. 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 Video Entertainment System, or VES, but when Atari released their VCS the next year, Fairchild renamed its machine. Twenty-six cartridges, termed 'Videocarts', were officially released to consumers during the ownership of Fairchild and Zircon, the first twenty-one of which were released by Fairchild. Several of these cartridges were capable of playing more than one game and were typically priced at $19.95. The Videocarts were yellow and approximately the size and overall texture of an 8 track cartridge. They usually featured colorful label artwork. The earlier artwork was created by nationally known artist Tom Kamifuji and art directed by Nick Talesfore. The console contained two built-in games, ''Tennis'' and ''Hockey'', which were both advanced ''Pong'' clones. In Hockey the reflecting bar could be changed to diagonals by twisting the controller, and could move all over the playing field. ''Tennis'' was much like the original ''Pong''. These games were reviewed by ''Video'' magazine in 1978 and ''Hockey'' was scored a 7 out of 10 while ''Tennis'' received a 6 out of 10. A sales brochure from 1978 listed 'Keyboard Videocarts' for sale. The three shown were ''K-1 Casino Poker'', ''K-2 Space Odyssey'', and ''K-3 Pro-Football''. These were intended to use the Keyboard accessory. All further brochures, released after Zircon took over Fairchild, never listed this accessory nor anything called a Keyboard Videocart.〔 There was one additional cartridge released numbered Videocart-51 and simply titled 'Demo 1'. This Videocart was shown in a single sales brochure released shortly after Zircon acquired the company. It was never listed for sale after this single brochure which was used for winter of 1979.〔 ==Videocart-1== ''Videocart-1: Tic Tac Toe, Shooting Gallery, Doodle, Quadradoodle'' is a board game genre video game released in 1976 by Fairchild. ''Video'' magazine reviewed the individual games in a 1978 article on the Channel F, scoring ''Tic-Tac-Toe'' a 5 out of 10, ''Shooting Gallery'' a 7 out of 10, ''Doodle'' a 4 out of 10, and ''Quadra-Doodle'' a 3 out of 10. ''Shooting Gallery'' was described as "challenging" and ''Doodle'' was characterized as "not really a game" and was criticized for its difficulty of control.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Fairchild F Videocarts」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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