For the hoarder in your life: Wired’s Gadget Lab has found numerous multi-format retro videogame consoles at this year’s Consumer Electronic Show. Highlights include a fairly nice looking NES/SNES combo (pictured below) and a Genesis/Master System/NES combo that are region-free (I.e. it’ll play imported games from other countries). The rub: you have to actually own the carts to play the games, meaning you have to have old NES carts kicking about somewhere.

For the person with too much damned money: Kotaku shows off the ITC One, an all in one solution for those who don’t want to look at separate Wii, Xbox 360, HD-DVD player, DVR, stereo system, and iPod dock components. It will retail for $25,000 US dollars and not feature the Playstation 3 in its monolithic frame due to its incompatibility with Windows Media Center. Yeah, because the Wii is so compatible with Media Center. The resulting device is one of the ugliest things I have ever seen. You can see it too, below:

- Rob O’Reilly

Posted on Wednesday, January 9th, 2008 at 3:45 pm in the category:In Brief, Retro, Wii, Xbox. Comment RSS 2.0 feed. Comment it , or trackback this post.