{"id":2164,"date":"2011-09-08T03:13:21","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T03:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/?p=2164"},"modified":"2011-09-08T03:13:21","modified_gmt":"2011-09-08T03:13:21","slug":"atari-reveals-joystick-controller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/?p=2164","title":{"rendered":"Atari Reveals Joystick Controller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Atari was apparently pleased with the sales of the\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkgeek.com\/electronics\/retro-gaming\/e762\/\">iCade controller<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0it developed in conjunction with ThinkGeek. Now the classic gaming giant is introducing their own Duo Powered iPad controller.<\/p>\n<p>Atari is apparently working alongside\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/discoverybaygames.com\/\">Discovery Bay Games<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0to develop, produce, and market the new joystick controller.\u00c2\u00a0 Discovery Bay and Atari aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t offering much in terms of information \u00e2\u20ac\u201c just that the controller is coming soon. Neither company has listed a price.<\/p>\n<p>The controller is designed to work with the\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/ataris-greatest-hits\/id422966028?mt=8\">Atari\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Greatest Hits<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0iPad app, which is available from the iOS App Store free of charge. While the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcGreatest Hits\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 App offers users access to more than a hundred Atari classics, users are required to purchase each game individually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atari was apparently pleased with the sales of the\u00c2\u00a0iCade controller\u00c2\u00a0it developed in conjunction with ThinkGeek. Now the classic gaming giant is introducing their own Duo Powered iPad controller. Atari is apparently working alongside\u00c2\u00a0Discovery Bay Games\u00c2\u00a0to develop, produce, and market the new joystick controller.\u00c2\u00a0 Discovery Bay and Atari aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t offering much in terms of information \u00e2\u20ac\u201c [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2164"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}