Popular games for platform Fairchild Channel F

3rees is a homebrew game which is an adaptation of 2048 with added extra rules. There are 3 game modes: 768 which is to acheive score of 768 as fast as possible, Long which is obtaining as high score as possible until maximum limit reached, and Time where you have 3 minutes to gain as much score as you can.

The gameplay featured on this cart is a take on the game of Dodgeball. The player is trapped inside a playfield and has to dodge a ball that continuously keeps bouncing of the sides of the playfield. The longer the player is able to dodge the ball, the more points are earned. After a certain amount of points are earned, another ball enters the playfield thus making the player have to dodge two balls. More balls keep getting added at fixed intervals after that until a total of 9 balls are in the playfield. The game ends when the player is finally hit by the ball. In the 2 player game, both players are put into the same playfield and try to outlast the other player in trying not to get hit by the balls being thrown by the computer. The game features random variations in the gameplay, such as having different sized playfields, ball sizes and speeds, and changing the players' size and speed. There's an Amateur and a Pro mode, both playable with either 1 or 2 players. This preprogrammed cartridge plugs into the console of the Fairchild Video Entertainment System for more TV fun. It's like the old playground favorite dodge ball. Only this time the computer's throwing the balls, not your classmates.

Videocart-1: Tic Tac Toe, Shooting Gallery, Doodle, Quadradoodle is a board game genre video game released in 1976 by Fairchild Semiconductor for the Fairchild Channel F. This preprogrammed cartridge plugs into the console of the Fairchild Video Entertainment System for more TV fun with these exciting solo games.

This drag racing simulator makes use of the Channel F's special controllers. While twisting the joystick's head to the left or right controls the engine throttle, the stick movement itself is used to shift gears in a realistic H-pattern. Depending on the chosen skill level, the car available is a family sedan, a modified sedan, a funny car, or a real dragster, although they all look the same on screen. One player can try to beat the predefined par time of 7.7 seconds, or compete against a friend to see who reaches the finish line first. The game manual mentions that a player only wins the game when he brings his victory counter to 99. This preprogrammed cartridge plugs into the console of the Fairchild Video Entertainment System for more TV fun. Know when to shift and you'll go the distance with these 2 racy games. But careful... Redline your engine, an dyou wind up shiftless! (You've blown it!)

Videocart-51: Demo 1

I couldn't allow the port old Fairchild Channel F, the first games console to use ROM cartridges, to be left out of the Wordle craze. This ground-breaking machine, offering colour graphics in the home in 1976 when state-of-the-art arcade games were mostly monochrome until 1979, was unfortunately made obsolete with the arrival of the 2600 less than a year later. This version features 1,175 built-in words (max ROM size is 8K). Obviously as a result it cannot check the answers you enter are valid words, so it's up to you whether you play an honest game or not...! Hint: None of the words in the list have the same letter more than once.

Videocart-5: Space War is a Shoot 'em up released by Fairchild Semiconductor for the Fairchild Channel F in 1977. This preprogrammed cartridge plugs into the console of the Fairchild Video Entertainment System for more TV fun. Teleport yourself and a friend to an interstellar battleground with this "faster - than - the - speed - of - light" game.

In this Space Invaders variant, the player controls a gun turret at the bottom of the screen and fires missiles at incoming alien ships. The turret can move both left and right and hide behind three protective barriers. The alien invaders move left and right, fire missiles at the player, and slowly approach the planet surface - if they land, the player loses the game. Every once in a while, an alien mothership will fly across the top of the screen and shooting it will give the player extra points. The goal of the game is to destroy all alien ships in each attacking wave and score as many points as possible. The game ends when players lose their three lives.

Mind Reader is a one-player game, you against the computer. The object is to guess the number the computer is thinking of. The number can be 2 to 5 digits long. You have 20 guesses or a time limit. Also in Nim you play against the computer. You have a choice of 3, 6, or 9 piles. The objects in the piles are numbers, 1 to 15. The player who takes the last number off the screen wins.

Videocart-6: Math Quiz (Addition & Subtraction) is a Triva/Game Show video game released by Fairchild Semiconductor for the Fairchild Channel F in 1977. This preprogrammed cartridge plugs into the console of the Fairchild Video Entertainment System for more TV fun. Get one problem right and a new one appears. Take turns with a buddy for added competition... Plus or minus some fast-paced fun.

Video Whizball is a game where players control paddles that have to protect a goal from being entered by whizballs. To protect their goal, the player's paddle can fire missiles which can be aimed straight or angled up or downward. Missiles that hit whizballs can help propel them to start going in an opposite direction. If one of the missiles or whizballs hits the player's or the opponent's paddle, it will temporarily disappear leaving the respective goal undefended. The game is won when either one of the players gets to a previously selected score. The game contains 72 game variations of this basic premise. Variations include having from 1 to 4 whizballs, and 6 different game types: Basic: each whizball is worth only 1 point; Basic Plus: players can guide the missile shots into the whizballs; Bonus: whizballs can be numbered 1 through 4 and are worth that many points each; Bonus Plus: adds guided missiles to the Bonus game type; Super Bonus: whizballs increase in value from 1 to 9 points the longer they stay in play; Super Bonus Plus: adds guided missile shots to the Super Bonus game type. This preprogrammed cartridge plugs into the console of the Fairchild Video Entertainment System for more TV fun on the Channel F Network. Imagine shooting pool with both players going for the balls at the same time. That's just a hint of the slam-bang action you'll find as you try to knock the whizballs into your opponent's goal.

A port of the 1980 Game and Watch game Ball - without the watch.

This cart contains two different games. The first game is Robot War. It takes place on a space station. The computer malfunctioned and now four robots are out to hunt down the player. Gameplay mainly has the player trying to trick the pursuing robots into one of the four electrified force fields littered throughout the playfield. Every time the player is touched by a robot, one of the force fields disappear. Once all the force fields disappear, the player loses a point to the robots. If all the robots are defeated, the player gets a point for that round. The game also features an option for two players, where the second player takes control of the robots. The game features four game speeds from slowest to fastest The other game is Torpedo Alley. Players control a shore battery at the bottom of the screen and shoot at an invading fleet of ships above them. Each hit ship is worth a different amount of points, with the lowest ship being worth 1 point, the middle ship worth 3 points, and the highest ship worth 5 points. The game ends when a player reaches 99 points or the adjustable time limit expires. This preprogrammed cartridge plugs into the console of the Fairchild Video Entertainment System for more TV fun. The hunter or the hunted. Take your choice in these action-packed one and two-player games.

Videocart 3: Video Blackjack is a Casino video game released by Fairchild Semiconductor for the Fairchild Channel F in 1976. Think your system's unbeatable? Wait'll you see ours! Deal yourself into Video Blackjack for some fast action before you hit the big time.

Videocart-2: Desert Fox &Shooting Gallery is action/shooter genre video game released in 1976 by Fairchild Semiconductor for the Fairchild Channel F. Stalk a foxy enemy or knock off a few ducks. Let out your hunter instincts with these two exciting games.

A simulation of the five-card draw poker variant. There is a computerized dealer and two more players (human or computer-controlled), and each one is dealt five cards. The players then take turns either calling or raising a bet (of up to $25) or, if they don't like their cards, they can fold. Once that round of betting is done, players can then choose to discard up to three of their cards in exchange for new ones, in an attempt to make a better hand. Another round of betting then takes place and, after that, all the players that didn't fold must show their cards. Whoever has the highest hand wins all the money in the pot.

The original game of backgammon for the first 2nd-generation console of 1977. Players take turn rolling dice and then moving their pieces around the game board. Blue & Red each have to move all their pieces off the board to win, and are competing against each other and against lady luck herself. Acey-Deucey is another way to play Backgammon where the starting position is different. Instead of starting the game with numerous pieces arranged at places around the board, you start with all your pieces at the starting line. It makes for a longer game, although just as strategic and challenging. This preprogrammed cartridge plugs into the console of the Fairchild Video Entertainment System for more TV fun. This time, play the world's newest and most modern game of backgammon. The pieces are on the tube, rather than a board. Like the regular game, but better... You've got nothing to lose!

The object of the game is to knock down as many pins in 10 frames of bowling. The game gives the player an overhead view of a bowling lane. The player's bowling ball starts out moving left and right across the front of the lane. This has the player trying to get the lane position they want the ball to start traveling down. Once the ball starts rolling down the lane, the player can curve the ball left or right. Once the curve has started, it can't be changed further. The game has 18 variations. They involve choosing the combination of number of players (1 or 2), then speed of play (slow, normal, fast, and fastest), and selecting a regular or split game. Regular games start with all pins standing in each frame while the split games have a random number of pins missing and the player has 2 balls to knock down the remaining ones. This preprogrammed cartridge plugs into the console of the Fairchild Video Entertainment System for more TV fun on the Channel F Network.