Channel F Hand-Controller

Release date:	1976
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Company:	Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corporation
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Main colours:	Black

System:	Channel F Channel F System II
Connection:	DE9
Mechanisms:	Button Joystick Paddle

Default controller for the Fairchild Channel F and Channel F System II. On the first console they're hard-wired to the system, but for the System II they use Atari's DE9 port.

It's shaped like the stick part of a joystick, which you hold with one hand, and the top has a triangular-shaped knob that can be pulled up and pushed down (2 digital buttons), tilted like a joystick (8-way digital joystick), and twisted like a paddle controller (analogue). It's pretty clever, and covers most of the popular input types of the time.

Similar Interfaces

• Video Command - Clone for Atari VCS, Atari 400/800, VIC-20.
• Channel F Jet-Stick - Almost identical, but has a trigger button on the front.