page_title: Fairchild Channel F
section_title: Licensed variants
hierarchical_section_title: Fairchild Channel F / History / Licensed variants
caption_attribution_description: Luxor Video Entertainment Computer. Licensed version of the Fairchild Channel F.
context_page_description: The Fairchild Channel F, short for "Channel Fun," was the first programmable ROM cartridge–based video game console, and the first console to use a microprocessor. It was released by Fairchild Semiconductor in November 1976 across North America at a retail price of US$169.95. It was also released in Japan in October the following year. It was originally named "Video Entertainment System," but when Atari, Inc. released its Video Computer System the next year, Fairchild changed the name for its machine, although they continued to use the old name alongside it.
  By 1977, the Fairchild Channel F had sold about 250,000 units, trailing behind sales of the VCS.
  In 1983, the production of the system discontinued.
context_section_description: A number of licensed versions were released in Europe, including the Luxor Video Entertainment System in Sweden, Adman Grandstand Video Entertainment Computer in the UK, the SABA Videoplay, ITT Telematch Processor and Nordmende Color TelePlay µP from Germany, and the Dumont Videoplay and Barco Challenger from the Barco/Dumont company in Italy and Belgium.
caption: Luxor Video Entertainment Computer
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