I was lucky enough to find a mint Fairchild system at a garage sale a
few weeks ago. It was a bargain for $15.00. Happy vintage gaming!

I avidly played this gamesystem far into the atari 2600 days. The maze game kept us squeeling, and the backgammon/ace duce game were my first exposure to these more traditional games.

I used to love playing this as a kid. I liked the pong/tennis type game built in to the system and required no cartridge. I was addicted to blackjack and that maze game with the confounded evil green square that competed with you. If only I could find one to buy for old times sake

The Fairchild Channel F can only generate six colours on screen, and has a very corse graphic resolution. The original version of the machine generated sound from an internal speaker, and had a dust cover on top of it. The Channel F II sends sound through the r/f, and lacks the dust cover. The system rights were later turned over to a company called Zircon for a short time before the system disappeared from the market.

In the 1976-1978 time frame, I used to play this at the Macy's. It had a three dimensional joystick controller. You could push it in the x and y axis, and pull it up and down in the Z axis. You could also rotate the head as well.