You know Taylor means business when she wears her ball cap backwards. "Let's get ready to Fairchild!!!!!!!!!" Adrian is always a good sport and very competitive when it comes to game playing.

What a great video! Years ago, (probably not long after you were born 😅), I saw the Fairchild Channel F at a local department store. I wasn't really a gamer, but I loved electronics, and the Fairchild immediately caught my eye. The unit was plugged into a TV, so I played around with it, to see what it could do. Having seen only those one-trick-pony games of the day, (Pong, Tank, etc), I was amazed at how versatile the Fairchild was. If I would have had the money, I would have bought one on the spot! Unfortunately, my wife wanted me to spend the money on things like groceries, clothes for the kids, house and car payments -- you know, boring stuff like that, so I had to leave empty handed. 😪 Whenever we were in the store, I would find an excuse to go play with that console, but I never managed to come up with enough money to buy it, and after a while, it wasn't there anymore. So, the Taylor and Amy show has finally answered the question of whatever happened to the Fairchild, that has bothered me all these years. Thank you both for putting my mind at ease. Tonight, for the first time since the late 1970s, I can get a good night's sleep, having seen Amy kill her competitor on the Fairchild Channel F. My life is no complete.

Nice presentation! I just bought one on ebay so I am very excited right now. It is such an important but forgotten system. As a console collector I had to have one in my collection.

I heard a lot about the Fairchild but never really seen one. Lots of fun to be had with the comp mod and joystick repair/replacement and what's more it uses real electricity :)

Was oodles of fun watching Amy PwN Adrian in PVP Crysis on an F-8. Chuckled a lot at it all. :)

0:54 The 1 December 2022 Google Doodle was a hat-tip to Gerald "Jerry" Lawson.

That reminds me. I have an unbuilt Fairchild F8 computer kit (circa 1975) that I should build.

Never heard of this system … Awesome pioneering console!

I had one of those! It didn't work, which was why my uncle gave it to me. I took it apart thinking that I could find what was wrong with it, but after checking a few things, I concluded that it has been fried by a power surge or something like that and was beyond repair. I ended up salvaging the controllers (very cool) and using them for other things after I figured out the pin outs. 👍

It's so fascinating to see how the controllers gave you basically full control, but they hadn't figured out how to translate that into interesting gameplay. Atari Combat, with far more limited control, gave you more interesting tactics trying to maneuver to an advantageous position - and to try to arrange things so you could set up a string of kills (almost like playing 9 ball, setting up shot after shot). Another example is Archon, which made things more interesting by introducing a recharge time. So you couldn't just try to shoot at each other continuously. You'd try a shot and then try to avoid until your shot recharged. Or depending on where the enemy was in their own recharge cycle, you could pursue to try and set up a shot before the enemy recharges.

Great video, as always... and as everyone has mentioned, the Channel F was way ahead of it's time, particularly the controller. If I remember, we saw one at the VCF MidWest warehouse after CocoFest, but of course it wasn't actually up and running. Jealous - I haven't seen a functioning one in decades. And I am now scared of competing with either of you in gameplay... I will have to work my way up by playing Adrian first. :)

X+Y+Z is a great way to put it!

I was so enthralled with stuff I didn’t really look at the gaming systems. Will rectify that in 23!

That joystick is awesome!

The very first Itchy & Scratchy videogame!

So jealous of the Channel F variant, and so jealous you got to meet Adrian! I remember looking at the Fairchild in Sears/MonkeyWards catalogs as a youth... by that time I already had the Intellivision, the ultimate system that would never be bested... but I still kind of wanted the Channel F and the others. Later I would be diagnosed with terminal geekness.

The easiest way to get a dual PAL/NTSC monitor is a Sony PVM or similar. There is a kickstarter project for a 5:4 LCD with PAL and NTSC support but it hasn't launched yet.

I knew about this system and its place in history but hadn't seen it in action. I'm kind of blown away by how well the games utilized the unique controllers. Also got a huge kick out of the VCF footage - you two and Adrian are some of my very favorite KZfaqrs these days!

That pong game looks awesome, definately made to get the best out of the controllers. But pah, 220v that's the least you need, as a Brit we get up to 240v - more is better, right? Love the "Don't have that many" line. As ever, great vid. Do you ever not have a great time. You lighten up my week.

I still haven't recovered from watching the previous video. I hope there aren't any shenanigans in this one!

You two crack me up.

Such a neat system and some really cool features on those “remotes” 😉

Awesome guys.. 👍👍The first programable rom video game console. The great, great grand daddy of all consoles these days. I had one years ago but had to sell it, regret it to this day. Been looking for a boxed model 1 for years now, but haven't found one worth the money yet.. Still waiting on the "one", that has a good box, the system works, and is in good shape. Hard to find one with all that for a decent price these days.

It's not broken, it's a bobble head!

I have a Channel F in the box but no cartridges... someday.

Odd controller. Hmm I should look into that converter if I want to buy some Euro systems to work in the US.

It is always the highlight of my day when you post a new video, you are always so enthusiastic about everything. I'm really looking forward to seeing Taylor do the composite mod on that console.

Really cool. This was a new one for me. I had a 2600 as a kid and I guess this was out at a similar time, but I didn't know about it. I hope you ladies consider coming to Jersey in April for VCF east.

Looks like the first death match gameplay ever! Looks like a lot of fun! 😃

That's so cool y'all got to play with Adrian Black. If y'all can find an old Goldstar TV from the early to mid 90s, they usually can handle both NTSC and PAL signals. It's way cheaper than those Sony PVMs. I don't know if y'all are into CRTs, but I usually like to play my retro stuff on CRTs. Y'all's room set up is AWESOME!

I like it when one of you starts randomly singing an 80s song the other immediately follows. (This time Transformers). This seems to happen regularly. It’s like you have connected brainwaves or something 👏 Also that Pong looks mindblowing!

Good Game Play Taylor and Amy I will invite you two on my next live repair stream warning they can run 5-12 hours we have fun on the live streams Sunday11/6/2022 9:00am PST 12:00pm EST

There's a saying my dad always said "Amy is much better at Adrian at game 2" I never knew what he meant, until today

I'm just starting the vid as I type this, but I'm excited. This is one of the classics that almost no one has but I would love to learn more about that. Someone in my town was recently selling one on FB Marketplace for $400...I thought about it, but couldn't spare the four bills at the time.

Awesome video! What a great find!

Never used or even seen one of these. Those joysticks are amazingly ahead of their time though, and I love that you could rotate the bats in Pong too.

Getting a strong Jay and Silent Bob vibe off this one :-D Kudos for scoring a Channel F, very advanced system for the time and it's great that you've kept yours in working order.

Awesome! I happen to own a channel F that I rescued (someone was going to throw it out) I haven't had much time to do anything with it. I'm really excited to see what upgrades you two find for yours!

Hi, why buy a PAL unit? was it cheaper than an NTSC one? With the purchase of a transformer it would have been probably about the same or more than what these go for now right?

Hi Taylor. Does the controller have standard 9-pin connector similar to atari 2600? If so I think I have a controller for you that I got in a lot of a few vic-20s. Let me know and we can exchange email and I can get this sent out to you!