Tic-Tac-Toe / Shooting Gallery / Doodle / Quadra-Doodle

Tic-Tac-Toe / Shooting Gallery / Doodle / Quadra-Doodle

Channel F - USA - 1st edition.

Developer Fairchild Camera and Instrument Publisher Fairchild Camera and Instrument, ITT, Luxor, Nordmende, SABA Published 1976-??-?? Platforms Channel F Genres Action, Multi-genre, Shooter, Single-screen, Strategy Distribution Commercial

Tic-Tac-Toe / Shooting Gallery / Doodle / Quadra-Doodle is a multi-cart developed and published by Fairchild Camera and Instrument for the Channel F in 1976. The game combines four different programs: Tic-Tac-Toe, a no-frills single-player game where you try to beat a very weak AI; Shooting Gallery, a single-button game where you time trying to hit a target; and two drawing programs, Doodle and Quadra-Doodle, which let you draw colored lines on the screen. This is really more of a toy than a game. Shooting Gallery was also included in the second Channel F game, Desert Fox / Shooting Gallery.

Personal

Own?	Yes. Two loose US carts.
Won?	Yes. Beat AI in tic-tac-toe. Shooting Gallery and the Doodle programs don't have a win condition.
Finished	2024-06-14.

Review

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Best Version: Channel F

Good

• Quadra-Doodle allowed users to make some intricate pictures for the time.

Bad

• The AI for Tic-Tac-Toe is pretty weak. Only a child would lose to it.
• Shooting Gallery, even for the time, is weak. You can't move or even rotate your gun. The number of attempts and hits are recorded, but there isn't any particular goal to obtain unless you set one yourself.

Ugly

• There really isn't much to do with this "game." Even in 1976, kids would get bored with it in a few minutes.
• The game is almost lacking in audio, and, what it has is very dull.

Media

Box Art

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  Germany - SABA.

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  USA.

Documentation

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  Manual - USA.

Screenshots

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  Beating the AI in Tic-Tac-Toe.

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  Hitting a target in Shooting Gallery.

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  Drawing a face in Doodle.

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  A kaleidoscopic pattern in Quadra-Doodle.

Videos

Game play.

Play Online

Channel F

Representation

Strong female character?	Fail	There are no characters.
Bechdel test?	Fail	There are no characters.
Strong person of color character?	Fail	There are no characters.
Queer character?	Fail	There are no characters.

Titles

Language	Native	Transliteration	Translation
English	Tic-Tac-Toe / Shooting Gallery / Doodle / Quadra-Doodle
German (ITT)	Mühle / Tontaubenschießen / Malspiel / Videoskop	Muhle / Tontaubenschiessen / Malspiel / Videoskop	Mill / Clay Pigeon Shooting / Painting Game / Videoscope
German (Nordmende)	Mühle / Entenjagd / Malspiel / Computermalen	Muhle / Entenjagd / Malspiel / Computermalen	Mill / Duck Hunt / Painting Game / Computer Painting
German (SABA)	Mühle / Tontauben-Schießen / Kreatives Malspiel / Videoscope	Muhle / Tontauben-Schiessen / Kreatives Malspiel / Videoscope	Mill / Clay Pigeon-Shooting / Creative Painting Game / Videoscope
Swedish	Lerduveskytte / Luffarschack / Kaleidoskop / Rita Själv	Lerduveskytte / Luffarschack / Kaleidoskop / Rita Sjalv	Clay Pigeon Shooting / Tramp Chess / Kaleidoscope / Draw Yourself

Links

   

• channelf.se/veswiki/index.php?title=Disassembly:Videocart_1 Disassembly.