Sunday, January 30, 2011

ThinkGeek's iCade iPad to move closer to the game, the reality in the form of a .cab file

Filed under: iPadby Kelly Hodgkins (RSS feed) Jan 11th 2011 (9) ThinkGeek iCade gaming cabinet: 30 AM, since 2001, ThinkGeek has been translated into products, April Fools Day gag. Some products are silly, some of the outrageous, and some are conceptually and cool and Show promise in the actual product. ICade gaming Cabinet-star April Fools 2010, this latter group belongs to. ICade is a retro gaming cabinet (.cab) file, which hearkens back to the 80s and its arcade gaming craze. Table-top unit allows you to turn your iPad display, even if the cab file itself contains a joystick, buttons and Bluetooth to connect to the arcade in my iPad.

After a few copycat versions hit the scene, ThinkGeek has not realized is the real benefit of such a product, and the Atari and ION interacting with the concept of this efficient. Atari will publish its classic arcade games such as asteroids versions of the iCade-friendly. These games on the iPad and the functioning of the monitoring shall be carried out in the BT connection on the joystick and game buttons. Application programming interface (API) is also released, so that in the current game developers to create the iCade-compatible versions of the games.

The unit will start shipping in April 2011, and are for Us $ 99.99 retail. You are interested in one of the players there until scooping when it becomes available?

[Via the Gadgeteer]


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