Bummer when that gets a Red Ring of Death.

The original Xbox demo prototype from 2000 that was milled from a solid block of aluminum and cost $18k to make:



https://www.techradar.com/news/the-original-xbox-prototype-was-just-a-massive-metal-x-but-it-worked - Oak

Nice!

New Wave Toys is known for making miniature replicas of arcade games. Functional mini replicas that you can actually play. I’m humming and hawing about getting the SFII. It’s on pre-order for $99 for February and then it’ll go up $20 in March:

https://newwavetoys.com/products/street-fighter-2-x-replicade

Street Fighter II: Champion Edition x RepliCade Preorder Video from New Wave Toys on Vimeo.

That is awesome Oak!

I took the plunge. There was another $10 off code over the weekend. At $90, I couldn’t say no. Here’s hoping they are on track for July 1st shipping.

The retro game re-releases are starting to get tedious, but the Capcom home system is doing something unique, though cumbersome. Wi-Fi enabled, you can presumably play against other opponents (or it may just keep worldwide scores):

PS5 is said to have 8k graphics support, a solid state drive and a disk drive:

http://www.vgchartz.com/article/436973/first-details-on-ps5-revealed-specs-backwards-compatible-more/