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Videocart-19: Checkers

A playable version of the board game of Checkers. The player controls the 12 checkers at the bottom of the screen and attempts to remove the 12 checkers at the top of the screen, controlled by the computer. A…

1 March 1978

Videocart-19: Checkers is a quiz/trivia developed by Fairchild Semiconductor, released 1 March 1978 on Fairchild Channel F.

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What Videocart-19: Checkers is

Videocart-19: Checkers is a quiz/trivia game developed by Fairchild Semiconductor and released in 1978. It is available on Fairchild Channel F only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

A playable version of the board game of Checkers. The player controls the 12 checkers at the bottom of the screen and attempts to remove the 12 checkers at the top of the screen, controlled by the computer. A player can only move his checkers diagonally toward his opponent's side of the board. A checker can be jumped when two opposing checkers are adjacent to each other and there is an empty space directly across the checker being jumped. If there's a checker in the board that a player can jump, he is forced to do so. If a checker reaches the other side of the board, that checker is kinged and is allowed to move and jump both back and forth in diagonal movements. The game is won by the…
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Official trailer

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When did Videocart-19: Checkers come out?
Videocart-19: Checkers was released on 1 March 1978 for Fairchild Channel F.

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