The fall 2018 parade of new hardware continued last week when Amazon kicked open the cages at the Alexa zoo and let loose more than a dozen new smart home products--including an Echo device for your car. And while Amazon was the biggest news last week, it wasn't the only thing in the tech world worth talking about. Here's what you might have missed. This week on the Last Week in Tech podcast, we take a look into the current trend of retro gaming consoles and talk about some of our favorite classic titles while the other hosts make fun of my pathetic Punch Out skills.

Amazon announced more than a dozen new hardware products today, along with several software updates, all aimed at bringing its voice assistant Alexa to more devices in your home--and even to your car. Some of the products were updates to existing Echo devices; others were brand new, like a new Echo Sub speaker, or a Fire TV device that acts as a DVR for local TV broadcasts. And, as rumored, there was a new home appliance in the mix too: An Amazon Basics microwave that works with Alexa and will sell for the low price of $60. There were few dramatic flourishes at the media event in Seattle, Washington as senior vice president of devices and services Dave Limp rattled off the new products. The event was held on the top floor of Amazon's Spheres, a biodome located directly next to the company's corporate offices.

Amazon could be planning to seriously beef up its line of Alexa-enabled devices. The internet giant is mulling the launch of eight new devices that can be controlled just by using your voice and its digital assistant technology, Alexa. It could release a microwave, amplifier, receiver, subwoofer and an in-car gadget, CNBC reported, citing sources close to the situation. Smart speakers are becoming a fixture in our households. That's according to Adobe, which found in a poll of US consumers that nearly half could own one by the end of the year Amazon could reveal these new devices at an event by the end of this year, an internal document indicated, CNBC said.