Fairchild Channel F and relatives - CART LIST This is a ist of all games for the Fairchild Channel F and related systems. I used a table for that purpose to show which game was available on which system. Most of the data has been taken from Digital Press Collector's Guide Seventh Edition. Please contact us if you find any errors in the lists lower down! Click here to send us an eMail. Many thanks to Jens from www.telespielomat.de, Chris Hind, and all the others, for the corrections and supplementation! Six companies released compatible consoles: Fairchild (later Zircon) in the USA, the rest in Europe. As far as I know any cartridge can be played on any system. Grandstand in the UK released their own console, but the carts were from Fairchild, so I put those two systems in one section. This leaves five systems:
There is also rumour about a compatible console by Ingelen, an Austrian company founded in 1907 in Vienna. In 1966 the German company ITT Schaub-Lorentz took over Ingelen. A possible scenario that I can think of would be that the German ITT Tele-Match Processor was sold under the Ingelen brand in Austria, but that is just a guess - I don't know of any Ingelen console that would have been found here in Austria, but I will keep my eyes open ;-) Now for the games. All in all 27 cartridges exist (plus probably two demo carts, where one is confirmed by Chris Hind). This makes the system very collectable, as you have good chances to get a complete collection (if you are not a collector, but a player, then forget this system, because almost all of the games simply suck ;-). Fairchild (later Zircon) released 26 cartridges (the only game that was not released by Fairchild is Chess which is unique to the Saba system). Note that not all Fairchild games have been sold in the UK for the Grandstand console. Second is Saba with 20 cartridges, Luxor with at least 19 (probably 21), Nordmende with 14 and ITT with at least 10. An interesting fact is that all of the manufacturers used Fairchild's numbering system, except for the Saba and ITT systems where some games are numbered different. Also, the ITT instructions are in German and English, so it seems that those games were also exported outside Germany. We have sorted the games by number of group 1 (Fairchild)
* "If we're going to be picky there is more than 27 cartridges for the system since SABA (and ITT) cart #1 and cart#16 (Rat mal) differs from the originals. They both have German text and #16 also has different graphics." (Thanks to Fredric Blaholtz) ** "That said there are also different rom-images in two of the games - there has apparently been updates in the code in cart 10 and cart 17 - there may be more, but it's probably not detectable unless you dump the memory and check it." (Thanks to Fredric Blaholtz) Three other Fairchild-relabeled versions have surfaced, Barco Challenger, Dumont and Emerson... As far as I know they didn't make cart labels but I've seen Barco instruction booklets. (Thanks to Fredric Blaholtz)
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