A Brief History of Home Video Games

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Fairchild Channel F

The first microchip was created at Fairchild Camera and Instrument by Robert Noyce. This small wafer of silicon would play the most important role in the evolution of video games.3 Because of it, video games would no longer be limitted by the number of TTL switches. One of the first systems to contain this technology was the Fairchild Channel F.

A small library of titles were produced for the Channel F, but the system never achieved the kind of popularity experienced by the other systems at the time.

The Channel F originally sold for $170 with its game cartridges averaging around $20 a piece.