First console game with cartridges?

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I've been researching the history of video games, and most list the 1976 Fairchild Channel F as the first one to have cartridge games.

I've found online a console called the 1975 - Philips Tele-Spiel ES 2201. Wouldn't this predate the Channel F by a year?

Jeff
 
Interesting, I wonder if the Tele Spiel isn't considered because it looks like all of its games are basically variations of pong though? (albeit some clever ones.) I'm guessing a lot of the assets were built into the console, and the carts simply provided some minor changes? Where as the Fairchild actually has a dedicated cpu, sound and fully programmable graphics
 
As far as I know, the Fairchild Channel F was the first, then there was the RCA Studio II, then the Atari 2600 came out. I actually have a Channel F and a few carts for it. Its incredibly clunky compared to the 2600. But still its an important part of video game history.
 
The FairChild Channel F is the first console system to utilize the programmed cartridge games. The other cartridge games that came out earlier were a connector to add 1 and 1 inside the console hardawre to create the game that you saw on the screen.
 
The 1st Magnavox Odyssey was released on 1972 and also played a kind of "cartridge" much like the Tele-Spiel. However, these cartidges didn't really contain game ROMS and so the Fairchild Channel F is still considered the first such system, followed by the RCA Studio II, the Bally Astrocade (originally called the Bally Home Library Computer and later the Bally Professional Arcade), and the 2600. The Channel F and Astrocade were decent systems for the time, but the Studio II sucks ass (although I still have two of them).
 
Telespeil

The FairChild Channel F is the first console system to utilize the programmed cartridge games. The other cartridge games that came out earlier were a connector to add 1 and 1 inside the console hardawre to create the game that you saw on the screen.

somewhere i read that there wasn't anything inside the console to run the game. ? which made me confused.
 
ah ok...

"In addition to the Tennis cartridge supplied with the system, four others could be purchased separately for 45F each. Alll contain a small circuit board with discrete components (resistors, capacitors, transistors, diodes, etc.) and no integrated circuits. Their circuits enables the necessary graphics generators, set the shape of these graphics (square, rectangle, vertical line, etc.) and manage various events such as collisions. Amazingly, the controllers plug to the cartridges instead of the system."
 
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