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First yes, finest no; I had one as a kid and I sure do not recall any games that looked even remotely as nice as her example at the top of demaking one of her o
by egypturnash 5y ago
First yes, finest no; I had one as a kid and I sure do not recall any games that looked even remotely as nice as her example at the top of demaking one of her own games at its resolution. It was an amusing toy to play with when my engineer father got it for me but I was covering my friend’s VCS by the time next Christmas rolled around.
A quick search for a list of all its games shows how visually underwhelming it was: https://voxodyssey.com/fairchild-channel-f https://voxodyssey.com/fairchild-channel-f (and confirms my feeling that Nicole’s demake of her game looks tons better than any actual Fairchild games)
The controllers were interesting, but quirky as hell: a shaft held in one hand with a triangular head poking out, to be held by the other hand. Push up/down/left/right to function as a digital joystick, rotate l/r as well, push it down into the shaft to act as a button.
- nicole_express 5y agoI suspect my demake, while theoretically possible, wouldn't have been doable within the ROM limits of the time (at least when also needing to use that ROM space for gameplay, etc) As an NES game it's tiny, but 24kiB would be unfathomable for a Channel F game.
- RodgerTheGreat 5y agoUnsurprisingly, modern homebrew appears a bit more sophisticated than the offical releases: http://www.consolecity.com/games/action-game_info/game_id-29406.html http://www.consolecity.com/games/action-game_info/game_id-29... edit: some neat tech demos on Archive.org, too: https://archive.org/details/International_Karate_Demo https://archive.org/details/International_Karate_Demo