1st Video Game Company to have a System News Letter

[DREW]

Another first attributed to the Channel F, The First Video Game System News Letter

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I was beginning to think this was just a rumor.

I had read in Clinton R. Dyer & Chris Webb’s Channel F FAQ (last updated 1997)
about a Channel F News letter from 1977 but since I have been collecting for the
Channel F even before this FAQ and have never found, seen or heard of this news letter
anywhere else except in this FAQ I had dismissed it as a Rumor.

Here is a cut and past from the FAQ

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4c. Fairchild newsletter

First and only known newsletter, featured descriptions of carts 1-9, with preview
descriptions of carts 10-12. Dated October 1977. Mentions that Carts 10-12 should be
out by November 1977.
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Again since I had never been able to find one I was beginning to think it must have been something else
like an in house memo or maybe a company announcement but not an actual newsletter. I was wrong as
I have finally found what appears to be the second issue of this news letter, its pictured below and you can
see at the top it states "January/Febuary/March 1978" and on the top right is says, "Volume 2 Number 1".

So there you have it Fairchild was the First to issue a Video Game News letter

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If anyone can locate the First 1977 letter I would like to either purchase it or obtain a scan Please contact me to discuss either

Other First for this Game System

First Video game system to have an expandable library through the use of interchangeable Programmable ROM Based Videocarts

First Video game system to have a game with an Easter Egg

First Video game system to have a Pause

First Video game system to have color

First Video game system with Black jack

First Video game system with AI (Spitfire)

First Video game to be used in a T.V. game Broadcast (POW)

[tom]

wow, quite amazing
I wonder how difficult it is collecting the whole set of carts (cib) for the Channel F?

[DREW]

wow, quite amazing
I wonder how difficult it is collecting the whole set of carts (cib) for the Channel F?

Not very difficult at all the Game Library is small and only a few, 3 or 4 will give you a problem
but they all come up from time to time. 19 and 25 will most likely be the hardest to come by.