😄📺 The Fairchild Channel F(un), released in 1976, was the first video game console with interchangeable ROM cartridges. It was powered by their own F8 processor, which addressed a whopping 64 bytes (!) of memory. Fortunately, the memory could be expanded using the game cartridges themselves.

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The Story of the First Video Game Cartridge

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nio3hYAx_Tc

After watching the Gaming Historian's latest video about the Fairchild Channel F, I really want this image on a t-shirt.

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Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/diyromarcade/3382643947

If you have recently made a game for an obsolete machine* I’d love for you to let me know! Going forward I’m planning to make monthly videos of new games for old machines.

RAM OK ROM OK’s Retro Indie Game Round Up. Or RORORIGRU for short!

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(*also planning to cover stuff for retro-adjacent systems such as Pico-8, Playdate, SpectrumNext too)

As mentioned in Google's doodle today, Jerry Lawson created games in his garage. However, not a lot of people know the full story behind that.

Lawson was always a fun-loving guy. In fact before Fairchild, he made a name for himself in Silicon Valley as a prankster.

Lawson was among a few number of engineers who purchased a minicomputer (which was not mini) to have in his garage, in this case a PDP-8. Several other notable game creators - like Lane Hauck of Gremlin - also did this as their first step into making games.

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