Fairchild's Video Entertainment System, later renamed Channel F, is notable as the very first game console to use a microprocessor (earlier machines used discrete logic) and ROM cartridges, almost a whole year before the Atari 2600 came out. However, it was not very successful, and only 26 "Videocarts" were officially released for it. Each Videocart was a bright yellow cartridge which was numbered and sometimes contained more than one game.
The list
| Box Art | Title | Genre | Description |
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Videocart 2: Desert Fox/Shooting Gallery | Shooting | Desert Fox is a tank duel game where you must maneuver on a field full of landmines and destroy your opponent before he does so to you. Shooting Gallery is a generic target shooting game. Worth for Desert Fox. |
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Videocart 26: Alien Invasion | Shoot'em Up | The best game on the Channel F. Yes, it is a Space Invaders clone, but it is a very nice one, on par with the Atari version. Some of the aliens even look like the alien from E.T. |