This episode is the first mention of Booth's brother, Jared. He does not actually appear on the show until season 4 in "The Con Man in the Meth Lab."
Angela, talking to Hodgins, mentions that he's annoyed by the government, "a conspiracy of dunces". She may be referring to 'A Confederacy of Dunces', a novel by John Kennedy Toole, published in 1980.
When Booth fixes the video game controller, the system appears to be a Sega Genesis, and while the controllers aren't completely identifiable, they clearly have 2 joysticks, resembling a Playstation 2 controller.