Do you remember the Nintendo Family Computer, or Famicon ? Well, you might not — it came to earth in 1983 and was Japan’s version of the NES . Now, continuing its week of vintage teardowns , iFixit’s gotten its hands on one of these colorful gems and done what it does.
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iFixit tears apart the Nintendo Famicon
Did you oooh and ahh at the fantastic gaming graphics that accompanied today’s Apple keynote ? You won’t have to wait for next week’s iOS 4.1 to get a taste of those textures for yourself.
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Epic’s spectacular Unreal Engine 3 tech demo free at iTunes App Store
Nintendo famously called Apple the enemy of the future in the video gaming space, and by golly, it looks like the Japanese giant was right; Steve Jobs just told an audience that the iPod touch alone outsells Nintendo’s DS and Sony’s PlayStation Portable combined, worldwide.
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Apple claims 50 percent of portable gaming market, iPod touch ‘outsells Nintendo and Sony combined’
For some people, the association of Corsair and quality PC components is so strong that they’d buy anything that bears the triple sail logo. It makes perfect sense, therefore, for the company that made its name by producing memory sticks to diversify its portfolio even further, this time into gaming headsets , with the introduction of the HS1. It’s a USB headset offering multichannel audio via 50mm drivers, a noise-isolating closed design, noise-cancelling and articulating mic, and inline volume and microphone mute controls
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Corsair sails into gaming headset waters with noise-isolating HS1 cans
The RCA Studio II is already a pretty rare sight as is, but rarer still is a detailed look inside what’s been described as one of the worst game consoles of all time. Thankfully, the folks at iFixit have now come through once again, and followed up their dissection of the Magnavox Odyssey 100 with a teardown of the circa-1977 “Home TV Programmer.” In addition to an abundance of beige, the team also discovered a considerable amount of solder that’s characteristic of 70s electronics, and even a few surprises like some white chip packages that are rarely (if ever) used these days
The fine people at iFixit have taken the extremely awesome step of tearing down some very retro gear this week, and up first, they’ve got the Magnavox Odyssey 100 which dates from 1975. The gaming console, which boasted two (count them ) games — Tennis and Hockey — was built around four Texas Instruments chips and powered by six C batteries. It was also the first home gaming console, so we were pretty interested in seeing its insides.
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iFixit tears apart a Magnavox Odyssey 100, doesn’t find a disco ball inside
Well, this is sad and unexpected: Microsoft’s Major Nelson just announced that Xbox Live Gold will be getting more expensive in the US, UK, Canada, and Mexico starting November 1. A single month will go from $7.99 to $9.99, three months will go from $19.99 to $24.99, and the yearly sub will now be $59.99, up from $49.99.
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Xbox Live Gold price increasing November 1 in US, UK, Canada, and Mexico
The last time we plugged in our Nintendo DSi to recharge it all we got as thanks was a little light. It turned on, the electrons flowed, and we continued our humble existence
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Pikachu is really, really excited to charge your Nintendo DSi
It’s been promised for years and was said to have gone into production before , but it looks like this time it’s for real — that’s the very first iControlPad fresh off the production line pictured above. No orders are being taken just yet, but that’s promised to be announced soon on Craig Rothwell’s Twitter feed (linked below), and the first run is said to be limited to 3,000 units, which are expected to sell out fast. It looks like that’s just the beginning for the peripheral, though — Rothwell is also promising to support additional phones in the future, which can be accommodated simply by swapping out the two side pieces.
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iControlPad heads into production, support for other phones promised
We specifically told you guys not to tell your friends at Sony about a certain “feature” of EA Sports whereby the player is charged $10 to unlock online content and multiplayer functionality . And what do we have here?
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Sony ponders charging for ‘online pass’ game functionality
