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The Fairchild Channel F, short for "Channel Fun", was the first video game console to use ROM cartridges, instead of having games built-in, and the first console to use a microprocessor.
It was released by Fairchild Camera and Instrument in November 1976 across North America at a retail price of US$169.
95 （equivalent to $772.92 in 2020）.
It was launched as the "Video Entertainment System", but when Atari, Inc.
released its Video Computer System the next year, Fairchild rebranded their machine as "Channel F" while keeping the Video Entertainment System descriptor.
The Fairchild Channel F achieved only about 350,000 units before Fairchild sold the technology to Zircon International in 1979, trailing well behind the VCS. The system was discontinued in 1983.
In 1974, Alpex Computer Corporation employees Wallace Kirschner and Lawrence Haskel developed a home video game prototype consisting of a base
unit centered on an Intel 8080 microprocessor and interchangeable circuit boards containing ROM chips that could be plugged into the base unit.
The duo attempted to interest several television manufacturers in the system, but were unsuccessful.
Next, they contacted a buyer at Fairchild, which sent engineer Jerry Lawson to evaluate the system.
Lawson was impressed by the system and suggested Fairchild license the technology, which the company did in January 1976.
Lawson worked with industrial designer Nick Talesfore and mechanical engineer Ron Smith to turn the prototype into a viable project.
Jerry Lawson replaced the 8080 with Fairchild's own F8 CPU; while Nick Talesfore & Ron Smith were responsible for adapting the prototype's complex keyboard controls into a single control stick,
and encasing the ROM circui...