The iPhone (and iPod Touch) have quickly emerged as bonafide gaming platforms with company after high profile company releasing mobile games for them, and sales at an all-time high. Yet you are stuck playing the systems with the touch-screen controls built in.
No longer however. An Australian company named 22Moo has created the first iPhone/iPod Touch controller called the “GameBone Pro iPhone controller”. Which, as the name suggests, is shaped like a bone.
The controller most closely resembles a Super NES controller and includes an 8-way D-Pad, four face buttons (A,B,C and D) and two shoulder buttons. It even includes its own battery that can supply extra power to your iPhone!
The controller doesn’t hook up to the system through a cable though or attack to it in any way, so you will need to rest it against something else to play, which could be a potential drawback. The company may release a horizontal and vertical stand for the iPhone though.
The GameBone controller will be released in September for an as-of-yet unspecified price. Check out the 22Moo GameBone Pro iPhone controller web-site to vote on the price you’d like to see it released at.