Check Out This Funky Atari Retro-Joystick for iPad

An Atari joystick for your iPad? Now that is sort of cool, and it actually looks like it'll work in a sincerely connected sense, unlike some of these awkward alternatives where you're basically suctioning something to the iPad's glass surface. Give thanks Discovery Alcove Games, World Health Organization've partnered with Atari to make it so.

The picture speaks for itself—a hastate, gracious way of life to drop an iPad into a dock and slap away at a handful of buttons. The connection's deterministic, thusly if you're sucking at any you're into, you can blame yourself, not the interface.

[UPDATE: I originally noted the stick supported Bluetooth and landscape painting mode, but it turns stunned that's inaccurate, thus information technology's portrait and docked, or bust (and my apologies for the error).]

Call up those old tabletop colonnade machines? The iCade? That took actual quarters? This reminds me of those, except you can suffice a lot more than free rein the cookie-cutter game repeatedly (operating room wallpaper your power with scads of micro-arcade boxes). The promotional adver claims it'll work with games like Asteroids, Centipede, and Projectile Command. The "games like" part suggests those and a whole lot more, too.

Take Atari's Greatest Hits, where we're speaking Battlezone, Black Widow, Crystal Castles, Gravitar, Star Raiders, Niff, Lunar Lander, Super Breakout, Tempest, and more.

Discovery Bay proclaimed in archaeozoic Lordly that information technology was partnering with Atari to manufacture a gaming supportive for Atari's Greatest Hits for the iPad, so we more or less knew this was approach, but not what it'd look up equivalent.

The only thing it probably South Korean won't do? Work with non-Atari iPad games, which is too mediocre, as I'm sure there'd be an audience for this sort of matter (maybe something with six or octonary buttons?) and pro fighter games like Street Fighter IV.

What'll IT cost? No word, but the Joystick IT Arcade control stick (the one you have to stick with the iPad's glass surface) costs about $20, and a full-connected iCade runs $100, thusly I'd guess someplace betwixt $30 and $50.

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