A table top arcade cab for your iPad? We can dream, anyway...
Posted by Spanner on Jul 13, 2010 08:22 (Jul 13, 2010 08:22)
I'm not the world's most gullible gamer, but I really don't know whether to believe this one or not. The geeky retro gamer in me wants to believe it badly - so bad, real bad, a-ha - but the net jockey in me finds it a little too good to be true.
The iCade is (supposedly) a miniaturised table top arcade cabinet that accepts your awesome iPad as both the screen and the electronic guts of this magnificent MAME-esque monster. The idea being you can download some classic coin-op titles from the App Store once the iCade app is released, then play them in retro style with a ball top joystick and proper buttons. It even boasts it's own speakers and sub-woofer. It appears to be on sale for an almost reasonable $149.99 over at ThinkGeek, and there's no immediate evidence that it's a jest, but it's hard to imagine Steve Jobs signing off on an official accessory like this. Of course, it could be that iCade is aimed at the jailbreak crowd, and that's enough reason for anyone on this site to free their iPad from iTunes should it prove true.
I suspect I'm being a taken in by this device's dazzling beauty (particularly given the Super Steve Bros. game advertised - hmmm...), but it's hard not to dream about owning this slice of retro goodness. Even if it's a jape, I'd put 59p on someone cobbling one together before long (though not through the App Store, natch). Your thoughts on a postcard, please.
Probably, yeah. Certainly I reckon it's too good to be true, although that's not stopped me shirking a day's work and drawing up my own plans for an iPad-equipped table top cab :-)
Jul 14, 2010 16:40:18 (
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