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    Knoxximus ver. 5.66: Dammit...I always over sleep and am late to my own damn party....AGAIN. *sighs* more »
    d_r_e: I would really love to hear what Mr. Lawson has to say about the current generation of consoles, and more. Quick Owen, schedule an interview!!!! more »
    mitch_93: Poor guy he was probably going where the fuck do you put the cartridge. Assuming he can't understand the technology today. more »
    SigmundTheSeaMonster: Cartridges rule! (no spinning parts!) more »
    CrimsonChin85: You guys really need to start saying that all this crap about "downloads are future" and CDs are "on the cups of extinction." I only read this on Kota... more »
    Aegis: Gentleman mercenary for hire...: Incidentally, new games continue to be developed for the Fairchild Channel F - the homebrew scene for it (as with the Atari 2600) is still very much a... more »
    Pombar: To demonstrate how truly rare a black pioneer in the industry is, I thought (despite now obvious age issues) the guy on the right was being referred t... more »
    MoeB: Cool shades. more »
    EnigmaNemesis: Mostly, people who met him expressed surprise that he was black, because none of his contemporaries ever referred to his race, just what he did. And t... more »
    Lion Sitter: Wow, that's pretty incredible! I wonder what his opinion on our current generation of consoles is. more »
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    The Father of Cartridge-Based Consoles

    Overshadowed in popular culture by the Atari VCS, the Fairchild Channel F is little more today than the answer to a trivia stumper: the first game console to use cartridges. And this man built it. More »