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The Fairchild Channel F is a game console released by Fairchild Semiconductor in August 1976 at the retail price of $ 169. 95.

It has the distinction of being the first programmable ROM cartridge – based video game console, and the first console to use a microprocessor.

It was launched as the Video Entertainment System, or VES, but when Atari released their VCS the next year, Fairchild renamed its machine.

By 1977, the Fairchild Channel F had sold 250, 000 units and was second-place behind the VCS.