New consoles for old cartridges

[elgefe02]

You know those "20 in 1" classic gaming joysticks/emulators that you can buy in Wal-Mart? Screw them. The real deal is the Retro Duo and Gen X from importers Innex. The former is a tiny console that accepts NES and SNES cartridges, which the latter takes Sega Master System and Genesis/Mega Drive slabs.

It's retrogaming for those who never threw away their collections, even when the machine that played them was done and dusted: "It's for people who still have the games in the garage," says Ron Pang, a sales manager at Innex.

I've got no idea why these guys can just sell multisystem clones of old consoles (Innex says that the systems they carry are based on lapsed patents) but I'm happy they do. It's certainly more "legal" than downloading ROMS and old tape images and what-have-you. How about an all-in-one featuring every system up to the post-16-bit era? The history of an industry, of entire generations of computer entertainment, embodied in a single mass-produced box out of Asia.

http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/01/ces-2008-retro.html