iCade 8-Bitty controller adds retro charm to your iPad gaming

Touch screens are all well and good, but when it comes to the growing catalogue of retro games available on iOS devices, you really need something you can button-bash away with in your hands.

ThinkGeek have just the thing, revealing today the iCade 8-Bitty, which bears more than a passing resemblance to the NES joypad.

Running off of two AAA batteries, the teak-finished iOS controller works with all the same games that run on the iCade iPad arcade cabinet, has a D-Pad, four face buttons and two shoulder buttons.

$24.99 will grab you an 8-Bitty from US gadget retailers ThinkGeek. No word on a localised UK release as of yet, but ThinkGeek ship internationally so you should still be able to pick one up.