Editing Fairchild Channel F (section)

== Games ==
{{main|Fairchild Channel F Videocarts}}
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Twenty-seven cartridges, termed "Videocarts", were officially released to consumers in the [[United States]] during the ownership of Fairchild and Zircon, the first twenty-one of which were released by Fairchild. Several of these cartridges were capable of playing more than one game and were typically priced at {{inflation|US|19.95|1976|2020|fmt=eq|orig=yes}}.<ref name="1976 commercial" />{{Inflation/fn|US}} The Videocarts were yellow and approximately the size and overall texture of an [[8 track cartridge]].<ref name="Kent" /> They usually featured colorful label artwork. The earlier artwork was created by nationally known artist Tom Kamifuji and art directed by Nick Talesfore.{{Citation needed|date=February 2011}} The console contained two built-in games, Tennis and Hockey, which were both advanced ''[[Pong]]'' clones. In Hockey, the reflecting bar could be changed to different diagonals by twisting the controller knob and could move all over the playing field. Tennis was much like the original Pong.

A sales brochure from 1978 listed "Keyboard Videocarts" for sale. The three shown were ''K-1 Casino Poker'', ''K-2 Space Odyssey'', and ''K-3 Pro-Football''. These were intended to use the Keyboard accessory, which is displayed on the Channel F II box. All further brochures, released after Zircon took over from Fairchild, never listed this accessory nor anything called a Keyboard Videocart.

There was one cartridge released outside the numbered series, listed as Videocart-51 and simply titled "Demo 1". This Videocart was shown in a single sales brochure released shortly after Zircon acquired the company. It has not been seen listed for sale after this single brochure which was sent out in the winter of 1979.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ List of physical Videocart releases
|-
! Title
! Release date
! Genre
|-
| ''Hockey'' (integrated)
| 1976
| Sports
|-
| ''Tennis'' (integrated)
| 1976
| Sports
|-
| Videocart-1: ''Tic-Tac-Toe, Shooting Gallery, Doodle, Quadra-Doodle''
| 1976
| Trivia, shooter
|-
| Videocart-2: ''Desert Fox, Shooting Gallery''
| 1976
| Action, shooter
|-
| Videocart-3: ''Video Blackjack''
| 1976
| Gambling
|-
| Videocart-4: ''Spitfire''
| 1977
| Action, shooter
|-
| Videocart-5: ''Space War''
| 1977
| Action, shooter
|-
| Videocart-6: ''Math Quiz I (Addition & Subtraction)''
| 1977
| Educational
|-
| Videocart-7: ''Math Quiz II (Multiplication & Division)''
| 1977
| Educational
|-
| Videocart-8: ''Magic Numbers (Mind Reader & Nim)''
| 1977
| Trivia
|-
| Videocart-9: ''Drag Race''
| 1977
| Racing
|-
| Videocart-10: ''Maze, Jailbreak, Blind-Man's-Bluff, Trailblazer''
| 1977
| Maze
|-
| Videocart-11: ''Backgammon, Acey-Deucey''
| 1977
| Trivia
|-
| Videocart-12: ''Baseball''
| 1977
| Sports
|-
| Videocart-13: ''Robot War, Torpedo Alley''
| 1977
| Platform, action
|-
| Videocart-14: ''Sonar Search''
| 1977
| Strategy
|-
| Videocart-15: ''Memory Match 1, Memory Match 2''
| 1978
| Puzzle
|-
| Videocart-16: ''Dodge' It''
| 1978
| Platform, action
|-
| Videocart-17: ''Pinball Challenge''
| 1978
| Pinball
|-
| Videocart-18: ''Hangman''
| 1978
| Puzzle
|-
| Videocart-19: ''Checkers''
| 1978
| Trivia
|-
| Videocart-20: ''Video Whizball''
| 1978{{sfn|Wolf|2012|p=70}}
| Miscellaneous
|-
| Videocart-21: ''Bowling''
| 1978
| Sports
|-
| Chess (Schach)
| 1979 (SABA Videoplay, German-exclusive)
| Board
|-
| Werbetextcassette ''electronic partner''
| 19?? (German-exclusive)
| Advertising
|-
| Videocart-22: ''Slot Machine''
| 1980
| Gambling
|-
| Videocart-23: ''Galactic Space Wars''
| 1980
| Action, shooter
|-
| Videocart-24: ''Pro Football''
| 1981
| Sports
|-
| Videocart-25: ''Casino Poker''
| 1981
| Gambling
|-
| Videocart-26: ''Alien Invasion''
| 1981{{sfn|Wolf|2012|p=70}}
| Action, shooter
|-
| Videocart-27: ''Pac-Man''
| 2009<ref name="ConsoleCity" />
| Maze, Homebrew
|-
| ''Kevin vs Tomatoes''
| 2018
| Maze, Homebrew
|-
| Videocart-28: ''Tetris''
| 2019
| Puzzle, Homebrew
|-
| ''trimerous''
| 2020
| Sports, Shooter, Homebrew
|-
| Videocart-29: ''The Arlasoft Collection''
| 2022
| Puzzle, Shooter, Homebrew
|}

* Democart (was briefly available to the general public)
* Democart 2 

Unreleased carts:
* Keyboard Videocart-1: ''Casino Poker''
* Keyboard Videocart-2: ''Space Odyssey''
* Keyboard Videocart-3: ''Pro-Football''

German electronics manufacturer [[SABA (electronics manufacturer)|SABA]] also released a few compatible carts different from the original carts: translation in Videocart-1 ''Tic-Tac-Toe'' to German words, Videocart-3 released with different abbreviations (German), and Videocart-18 changed graphics and has a German word list.

In 2021, a number of new 'Homebrew' games were released on [https://itch.io/c/1611179/fairchild-channel-f itch.io] by retro developer Arlasoft. These included ports of mobile puzzle games Tents & Trees, 2048 and Threes, as well as a port of the classic arcade shooter ''[[Centipede (video game)|Centipede]]''. Through a secret button combination a hidden game could also be started, the box and instruction booklet has multiple hints about the needed code. <br> 
These were released on cartridge as Videocart-29.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Fairchild Channel F - Collection by Arlasoft|url=https://itch.io/c/1611179/fairchild-channel-f|access-date=2021-06-04|website=itch.io|language=en}}</ref>