iPad Arcade now can be enjoyed with a retro style Cabinet so that you feel a sense of flashback to the good ole’ days of gaming!

iCade has several new editions this year.  For One, it integrates with your iPad® to create an authentic, arcade-style tabletop cabinet complete with joystick and 8 arcade buttons. Retro design allows you to enjoy and entertain and challenge friends and family to a number of downloadable game apps. Specially designed cradle ensures safe loading and unloading of your iPad®, while providing a solid, secure fit even during the most intense gaming sessions. Offers an ideal viewing angle and connects to arcade controls wirelessly via Bluetooth®. Simply launch any supported iCade-compatible app and play. Compatible with over 100 Atari® classics including Asteroids, Centipede and Battlezone. Apps are available as in-app purchases when you download the free Atari® Greatest Hits app to your iPad®; includes one free game with download. Wooden cabinet with retro arcade design. Includes 2 AA batteries and instructions. Imported.

Pac-Man is now iCade compatible! The new version adds support for the iCade allowing you to use the iCade arcade cabinet joystick to control this retro gaming classic. The total number of compatible games available for iCade on the iPad now exceeds 200 and GROWING each day!

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Best Game Apps To Play on iCade

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AIRATTACK HD
AirAttack HD is an award winning next-generation top down air combat shooter with stunning 3D graphics alongside great audio, effects and awesome game play. Dogfight your way through 10 great missions and test your skills against an onslaught of 64 different enemy types. Collect power ups and weapon upgrades and barrel through 3D environments in this classic top down arcade experience.

ARCADE JUMPER
Hop into the most retro-inspired intense side-scrolling platformer ever on iOS! Arcade Jumper takes place during the 1980s when Eddy’s little brother Jimmy gets sucked into Ghosty’s magical Megacade arcade machine! To get him back, Eddy must jump and bump through Ghosty’s randomly created old school arcade themed levels!

ATARI’S GREATEST HITS
Download this App to receive Missile Command for FREE, and collect up to 100 classic Atari games! Relive the Golden Age of Gaming with a collection of the most popular retro games from the 70s and 80s. This extensive catalog pays homage to each of the originals, with controls designed to mimic what Atari fans remember from 30 years ago! For those who love the classic gaming experience, this handheld breakthrough is sure to guarantee hours of fun.

BABY MONKEY (GOING BACKWARDS ON A PIG)
You are a monkey, clinging to a pig as it takes you for the ride of your life! Avoid ‘Space Unicorns’ and ‘Nom Nom Hamsters’ while hanging onto a bucking squealing pig in this addictive side scroller. Leap pits and cliffs while the pig tries to knock you off by destroying everything in its path. Skillfully time your jumps to reach power-ups and achieve record scores. Enjoy the ever-changing artwork and catchy music in this survival game for all ages.

BOB’S ACTION RACING
Created by Bob Fungus for the Fungus 500 in the late 70s and early 80s, Bob’s Action Racing has been reborn so that gamers all around the world can experience the arcade racer on the iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch. Experience classic racing action in a title that utilizes the same 17 color palette introduced by the Fungus 500 back in 1979.

BOX CAT
Box Cat is a retro arcade smasher created exclusively for iOS. Smash into cars and create traffic mayhem! Drive Box Cat towards oncoming cars with tilt or touch controls. Progress through Adventure mode to complete achievements, unlock new Cats and discover the world of Box Cat. Battle waves of cars and trucks in the relentless Survival Mode. Enjoy life while smashing through 7 lanes of heavy traffic in Rush Hour mode.

COMMODORE 64
Developer Manomio brings back the best selling personal computer of all time: the one and only officially licensed Commodore 64 for your iPhone and iPod Touch! Experience an authentic C64 gaming experience with real arcade style controls, classic sounds effects, and over 50 available free and paid titles.

COMPRESSION HD
Compression HD takes the famous falling blocks game concept and redefines it. Use all the block dropping skills you’ve mastered in the past, and then discover an all new level of strategy that only Compression HD can offer…

CYBORG LIVESTOCK
Cyborg farm animals are threatening farms everywhere! Its up to you to stop them. So strap on your jetpack, grab your shotgun, and lets shoot some robots! You’re the last farmer in the fight against evil Cyborgs destroying farms around the world! Go head to head with Cyborg Cows, Chickens, Goats and Pigs. Use Powerups to gain the advantage and gobal highscore charts plus tons of achievements keep the game going.

DIVERSION HD
Diversion is the ultimate 3D platformer for iOS with 4 unique worlds, 140 levels, and 300+ characters to unlock and collect! As you progress through levels you’ll unlock more challenging game play and hazards.140 challenging levels will require timing and puzzle solving skills to complete and unlock the hundreds of playable characters including: Ninja, Alien, Rocket, Karate, Robo, 60s, Zombie, Burglar, Tiger, Egyptian and even the Freaky Chicken and Future Banana!

DONKEY JUMP
This might be the hardest platform game you have ever played! Description below. The objective of the game is to fight off enemies (killer bees, killer aggressive rats and one huge secret monster at the end of the level) with super sonic ammunition and save the farm with “Jenny” the Donkey in a barn or save “Don Juan”. Jump your way through different levels and environments to unlock characters, fight bosses, and save the donkey of your dreams.

EMERALD MINE
In Emerald Mine you play as a miner trapped deep underground. Your objective is to collect the minimum number of gems to open the exit portals. Explore the caves to find all the gems and try to avoid the hazards which include exploding bugs, tanks, aliens and acid pools. Be careful of falling boulders and debris as they will crush you.

ENBORNX
Enborn-X is a side-scrolling shooting game that concentrates on a “giant boss battle”. You control armored girl Enborn-X to fight back a giant enemy named Enborn. Everytime you destroy Enborn, it respawns as a bigger and stronger creature. Your goal is to kill it as many times as you can and as fast as possible with your powerful weapons in order to get the high score.

FLASHBACK
Take yourself back to the early ’90s in the award winning Amiga version of this cyberpunk action-adventure, originally developed by Delphine Software International. Set in the year 2142, you assume the role of Conrad B. Hart, an agent for the Galaxia Bureau of Investigation, and attempt to piece together your erased memory in order to save the earth that is under threat of destruction by aliens. Can you complete the 7 levels in this classic platformer to destroy the aliens and save the world?

FORGET-ME-NOT
Forget-Me-Not is a tiny little arcade game for one or two players. Mazes + monsters + shooting. Run around the infinite, ever changing corridors of the NEON DUNJUN, gathering flowers and shooting everything. ZAP! Grab the key to the next floor.. try not to let monsters take it off you. Once you’ve picked all the flowers, the doorway shall appear. Grind the walls for a speed boost and the power of squishing! This title features a two player device sharing mode. Take a friend along to help and/or hinder your progress.

FREEESH
You’ve been given a small nucleus. It’s your job to feed, grow and protect the little fella, at all costs. Sounds easy but it’s not. You made it through the first evolution without incident but now that you’re in the second, danger lurks everywhere. Feed and protect your nucleus well, if you want to reach higher levels of evolution in this original, arcade type of game. Be careful to avoid the bigger and red molecules as you feed your nucleus smaller ones to thrive and survive.

FROGGER DECADES
Celebrate Frogger’s 30th birthday with an all new adventure! Frogger Decades is an exciting new chapter in the Frogger family of award-winning games, featuring breathtaking animation with an original musical soundtrack and cast of new characters to experience the Frogger world in a whole new way. This game features high quality 3D graphics, intuitive controls, multiple play options and much more!

FRUITY THE SNAKE HD
Fruity The Snake is a remake of the classic supper addictive and fun Snake game. Enjoy rich colorful graphics and original music/sound effects as you munch as much fruit as you can to get the high score.

GOATUP
GoatUp is easily the best goat-related platform game on iOS. Your goal is to raise a family – as high as you can! Kiss billy goats and eat grass to get kids. Keep jumping to lead your flock as high as you can. On the way you’ll encounter various enemies, pass through zones inspired by the history of platform gaming, and collect hundreds of unique bonus items.

HARD LINES
Take on all comers, avoid collisions and score MILLIONS of points in this stunning game of skill and quick reflexes! Inspired by classic arcade games from years gone by, guide our plucky underdog hero Lionel in his epic task to kill all the lines, pick up lovely glowy things, fight for survival, and most importantly DON’T CRASH! This is literally the funniest game you will ever play that has a glowing yellow line as the main character. Screen-searing graphics, a bass-thumping retro soundtrack and endless replay value make this must-play package unlike anything else you’ve played.

HAUNTED HALLWAY
Run for your life! Plundering an ancient tomb for treasure, the courageous Adventure Bob has gotten in a bit over his head. Escape from ghastly ghouls, skeletons, bats and traps in this action packed platforming adventure! Haunted Hallway features clever level design and fantastic platforming challenges. Be sure to collect as many coins as you can to boost your score through 24 levels of challenging action. If you’re feeling particularly brave, you can grab diamonds for an extra challenge.

HUMMINGZ EVO HD
A garden is a peaceful place, you think? Hummingz EVO will teach you, that there is WAR under the hood! Shoot your way through many different levels filled with nasty bugs, spiders, frogs, bees and more. Fight huge BOSS enemies and collect extras. Up for some retro arcade action spiced with extra bullets and BOSS enemies? Hummings comes with beautiful artwork optimized for the iPad display.

HUNGRYMASTER
Delica and her talking cat Saten are hungry! Lucky for them they know how to turn the monsters that infest the nearby forest into fruit. Your goal is to survive long enough to collect enough fruit to feed yourself and the locals.

HYPERBOWL
This authorized version of HyperBowl for the iPhone and iPad is brought to you by one of the developers on the team that created the original arcade and attraction game over ten years ago. Swipe the screen to push the bowling ball around six richly imaginative fantasy worlds – the eerie Classic lane, ancient Rome, an idyllic Forest, rocking High Seas, the streets of San Francisco and the bright night lights of Tokyo. Enjoy the scenery, but remember to head for the pins! Play 1-4 players in the original Arcade Mode or quick-play with your Game Center account, featuring a leaderboard for each lane and up to sixteen achievements for completing lanes, consecutive strikes and bowling a perfect game!

IBLACKJACK HD
Experience the action of iBlackJack HD on your iPad or iPhone! This table top card game includes new high roller chips, the option to listen to your own tunes, and the ability to place 0$ bets without effecting your overall winnings.

INC
The year 2135, the world is ruled by Corporations, humans are slowly being replaced by robots and machines, and the most powerful humans are now looking for ways to transfer their souls into robots, for eternal life. Fight your way thru four stylish worlds, surviving a large variation of different robots and machines that only have one mission, stop you from reaching your goal: save Dr Robotus! The unique graphical style, cool retro music and sound effects, and our well known hard-but-fair gameplay turn INC into an entertaining action adventure.

INFLUX
Grab the controls of this futuristic racer and pilot the Zeus1 to Victory!In the 23rd Century the Influx Gauntlet is considerd to be the most challenging race of all time. Racers come to test their skills, proving who is best. Piloting the advanced Zeus1 you have your eyes set at being number 1, but it wont be easy. Barrel through endless obstacles in this dynamically generated tube shooter.

INTERSTELLAR FORCE
InterStellar Force! is a retro side scrolling space shooter of intergalactic proportions. Fight an endless number aliens across the galaxy and on distant planets.

IRONSTAR ARENA
Test your Star Fighter instincts for “fight AND flight” against enemy flyers and automated drones in this arcade-style battle arena. Defeat your enemy by destroying all of their back-up fuel cells, or by breaking down their shields and destroying the enemy ship itself. Use an arsenal of weapons and strategies that include missile and shell fire, destroying the automated drones or using them to your advantage against the enemy, reloading from your ammunition depot or repairing your shields at your repair station when strategically necessary, and more!

JUNGOOL
In a jungle, far far away, lies a village in turmoil. The village Shaman has a quest for you (our ‘all round hero’) to save the young, the tribe, and ultimately the entire world. Travel through a myraid of stunning and magical locations, solving puzzles, defeating enemies, and retrieving the masks that give you the special powers you need. Experience this exuberant and exhilarating adventure and absorb yourself in its puzzling and addictive charm. Unlock new worlds to face new challenges, and achieve global highscores to demonstrate your greatness.

KATANA JACK
Welcome to Katana Jack! The first game finger-painted on the iPad where you will see how the game’s artwork was created while you play. Based on the classic platformer “Bomb Jack”, you must jump, fly, and survive through 90 levels & 15 finger-painted stages to destroy all the lanterns that don’t allow Jack to sleep. If you break the lighted lanterns following the established order you will be rewarded with more stars. And each new stage of the game requires a minimum number of stars to enter.

LEAGUE OF EVIL
The world needs your help! Evil scientists worldwide have joined forces forming a “League of Evil”; the only super agent who can stop them is YOU! As a special trained agent you can double jump, flipping your way over obstacles. You are also training in wall jumping gaps to reach new heights. So get ready to show your sick acrobatic moves across 60 challenging levels! Fight your way through your mission and find the mad scientist to deliver a well earned pixel punch in the face!

MAGMAZE
MagMaze is a universal application with sweet high resolution graphics designed for retina display and iPad. With 5 fun and easy game play modes and more than 200 handcrafted mazes, an astonishing 3000-PLUS variations are possible! There are more than 200 mazes of various shapes and sizes; mazes like you’ve never seen. With MagMaze, the easy gameplay lets you simply change the floor color, one square at a time or collect stars while avoiding enemies. Stay alert though because when moving around the mazes, you leave a trail that bad guys will follow.

MATCH PANIC
Tap on the right or left side of the screen to make a match – it’s as easy as that! Or is it? Beat the clock to level up and keep up the pace to increase your score multiplier. Keep an eye out for power ups to help blast your way to the next level. Unlock a dozen cute pixel characters and compete with your friends on 5 Game Center Leaderboards. Earn all 9 Game Center Achievements for the ultimate challenge!

MEGANOID
Meganoid comes in full 8bit retro pixelart style, complete with chiptune and sound effects. Each challenging level can be completed within a minute of gaming, making the pace of the game pretty fast, but many levels require multiply tries to complete. 90 hard levels, playable in three modes: Hero mode, Sarge mode and Oreah mode.

MINOTAUR RESCUE
Minotaur Rescue is an old school arcade-style game for up to 4 players at once on iPad (2 players on iPhone). Battle gravity, space rocks and marauding saucers as you fight to rescue endangered minotaurs and survive to gain the highest score.Classic 8-bit graphics combine with modern effects, intense gameplay and finely tuned touch controls to provide a satisfying and exhilarating arcade gaming experience.

MINOTRON: 2112
Faster, smoother, and in every way better than the original, MINOTRON: 2112 brings you 100 levels of intense, fun and humorous arena shooting action, laced with shattering explosions and spectacular effects. Four game modes offer fun and challenge to players of every level, from novice to hardcore, on iPad or iPhone. Minotron: 2112 is OpenFeint enabled, and achievements and leaderboards are maintained in both OpenFeint and GameCenter. Get your beast on and challenge for the highest score!

MOS SPEEDRUN
Jump, dodge and race Mos through 25 glorious stages of fast paced retro platforming action! With exceptionally clever level design, gorgeous pixellated graphics and solid platform dynamics you’ll want to keep playing and playing. Find secret areas, collect the spooky hidden skulls, grab every coin, and, once you get fast, you can try to beat the speed-run time! There really is something for all skill levels, from casual to hard-core gamers. There are 12 cool costumes to unlock throughout the game, see if you can find every spooky ghost and you’ll get a new costume for each one.

MUFFIN KNIGHT
Fertilize the forest with the unicorn, cover the sky with black holes, flood the world with candy, but just get the muffins back! Muffin Knight is an action-packed platformer with stunning visuals and a myriad of fairytale characters, each with their own unique abilities which gain strength as you advance.

NO GRAVITY
Are you brave enough to play No Gravity? You’ll need steady nerves and a strong heart to fly around dangerous obstacles, face hostile environments and use deadly weapons to accomplish your missions and protect your people. Hurry, download this iPhone version of the PSP favorite, before it’s too late.

PAC-MAN FOR IPAD
PAC-MAN, the world famous arcade classic, returns in this faithful rendition for your iPad! Play Original, Normal or Easy Mode and guide PAC-MAN with two different control modes or with your iCade. Navigate through the mazes, chomp on dots , and munch fruits and other items for big points! Chomp all of the dots to advance to the next stage. Go for high scores and high levels! Gain an extra life at 10,000 points! Gobble blinking Power Pellets to weaken ghosts temporarily and eat them up before they change back. Avoid Blinky, the leader of the ghosts, and his fellow ghosts Pinky, Inky and Clyde, or you will lose a life. Lose all your lives and it’s game over!

PIX’N LOVE RUSH DX
Do you want the clearest, cleanest, shiniest pixels money can buy? Choose Pastagames Amusement Device brand game consoles (any iOS powered device)! You get not one, not two, but three times the fun for the price of one. Of course the new Pastagames Amusement Devices eliminate dust and bad odors, but that’s not all! Thanks to the spatial technology driving each and every pixel, you get all the good old-fashioned fun that made the Standard Definition version famous, along with a whole lot more!

PLUM CRAZY
Roll the grapefruit around the maze by swiping or tapping on the screen in the direction you want to go. Squish as many plums as you can, pickup the bonuses and avoid the nasty things, all while keeping up with the rollers! Squish enough plums and you’ll advance to the next level, complete all the levels in a world and you’ll unlock a bonus mini-game!

PUZZLE BOT BLAST
A horde of smelly alien robots are taking over the kids village! Help fight them off in this fast paced puzzle game

QUIXOTIC
Take command of Earth’s last remaining line of defense against the sinister invasion forces of the accursed Beta-8 Alliance. You command the last remaining orbiting defense platform QXC-01, better know as the “Quixotic” Starstation. Power-ups will beam to your area from time to time to increase the capabilities of the mighty QXC-01… supercannon, lasersaw, and lightning nuke are but a few of the special weapons that will become available to you during your brave resistance. The enemy is merciless, the onslaught is intense.

RETRO DUST HD
Classic retro gaming returns with a vengeance in this fast paced arcade shooter. Navigate and blast your way through the Meteor fields to survive. Collect power ups to upgrade your lasers and collect special power ups to activate your super weapons including dual lasers, super lasers and 3-Way fire.Use your shields for emergency escapes. All new ‘Invasion” mode pits you not only against the Meteor fields but the Invaders for outer space in this amazing arcade cross twist.

RETROID
Retroid is a space arcade game built with lo-res voxels that features five levels of stylish blocky action. It has the unusual feature that at any time you can pinch, zoom, rotate the 3D camera to see the action from any angle. There’s a button to zoom out to orthogonal 2D view, too, if you are feeling nostalgic.

ROCK CRUSH
The original 1985 Sinclair ZX81 game was written in Z80 machine code and ran fast on that machine! This careful rewrite by the original author, features a ZX81 Emulation mode with the original graphics! ZX81’s didn’t normally have “hires” graphics modes except when special display routines were used. Try and solve all 10 original and 10 enhanced levels and see if you get the highest possible score of 99999! Use the arrows built into the walls – its easiest to play holding the iPad in your hand. If you get trapped – click on your man to blow yourself up (or press Fire on the iCade!)!!!

SIDEWAYS RACING
Drive, slide and nitro boost your way through nine tracks in Sideways, an action packed top view racer. This isn’t a casual Sunday drive, chaps. Be prepared for a wild ride.

SILVERFISH MAX
The critical smash hit iPhone game has been maximized for iPad! Weave through wave after wave of attacking space bugs and use powerful detonations to destroy your foes! Silverfish was designed for touch input to provide familiar, authentic, and unrelenting arcade action. It’s retro reborn and re-imagined!

SPACE INVERSION
Battle the invading aliens from outer space in this classic arcade invader style shooter!

SPACE INVERSION 2 HD
Space Inversion is the highly rated arcade Invader style shooter and it’s back with a vengeance! Bigger and better than ever before and now featuring a new Arcade mode with regenerating aliens and power ups to even the odds. This iPad HD version provides full use of the extra screen space available as well as 8 additional backgrounds and 1 new music track!

SPACE INVERSION PUZZLE
Play Space Puzzle, The classic Arcade Invader style shooter with a puzzle twist. Can you stop the advancement of the alien invaders ? Shoot the detonators to create explosion combo chains. use your tractor beam to move shielded aliens and rocks.

SPECTACULATOR, ZX SPECTRUM EMULATOR
In April 1982, Sir Clive Sinclair launched what was to become one of the most popular home computers ever made – the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. Spectaculator takes you back to the era where games were less about graphics and more about game play with eight classic titles such as 3D Starstrike, Dynamite Dan, and over 20 more available for download.

STARDASH
Oldschool arcade fun – From the developer of Meganoid and Super Drill Panic! See if you have the skills of the 90’s arcade games, survive the many levels by running and jumping, collecting coins, and unlocking special Temple levels. Stardash is all about gameplay thrown at you in awesome retro graphics and original chiptunes.

SUPER CRATE BOX
Vlambeer’s smash hit SUPER CRATE BOX brings back the glory of the golden arcade age when all that really mattered was getting on that high score list! Grab your baseball cap and loosen your pants, it’s time to fight endless hordes of enemies and collect every weapon crate you can. Prepare for an arcade delight with tight controls, refreshing game mechanics, cracking retro art and a terribly hip chiptune soundtrack. Collect crates where-ever you go, whenever you want. Now, Super Crate Box is finally available on the go!

SUPER CROSSFIRE HD
Welcome to the intense, high-energy world of Super Crossfire. Explosive gameplay, a massive upgrade system and a huge variety of enemies makes Super Crossfire stand out as a real evolution of the top-down shooter genre.Using a unique switching mechanic, players can warp their ship from the bottom to the top of the screen at anytime. Use it at the right time to avoid enemy fire and gain the upper hand.

SUPER DRILL PANIC
Escape the many dangers in this fun retro arcade game. Steal treasure, collect coins, upgrade your adventurer gear, and RUN as fast as you can, because there is a huge boulder coming at you!

SUPER MEGA WORM
Mother Earth is on the brink of extinction and has released her last defense, the Great Death Worm, Wojira. Wojira is on a revenge mission to destroy all the Human parasites. Crawl and eat your way through waves of humans and their robots of destruction. Grow and evolve into the ultimate weapon of destruction. You are the last line of defense, can you save the world?

TEMPLE RUN
From the makers of the award-winning best-seller Harbor Master® comes the most exhilarating running game on the App Store. Test your reflexes as you race down ancient temple walls and along sheer cliffs. Swipe to turn, jump and slide to avoid obstacles, collect coins and buy power ups, and see how far you can run!

TERRA NOCTIS
Slip into the role of a small nightmare called Allen, who is not as scary as a nightmare should normally be. Fight against countless monsters, prove your skills, solve riddles and explore a huge world that employs you for hours. Find secrets, unlock bonus levels and fight against huge boss monsters! All this with thoughtful and responsive controls to enable an action-packed and intuitive gameplay.

THE EXTERMINATOR
“Excalibur John” is the Exterminator! It’s a crazy fun game where you ride a motorcycle while blasting mutant bugs! It’s a speed run that will rock your world!

TORPEDORUN
Play the part of a surfaced sub commander. Defend your Submarine with the canon, use your Tigerfish torpedoes to sink the enemy ships. Deploy mines and call for health drops.A fast action game of skill all in real time 3D. Don’t let too many ships escape, keep an eye on your health and sink those ships!

VELOCISPIDER
Part Spider, Part Velociraptor, it’s Velocispider!!! Take control of a heavily armed araknasaur in this retro arcade shoot-em-up. Your delicious endangered eggs have attracted the taste buds of the evil CEO of the Robot Seafood Corporation. He will stop at nothing to feast on your eggs, defend them from his relentless army of aquatic robot beasts.

WARBLADE HD
An alien race is invading the earth and you must travel into space and fight the strange aliens to save humanity. That’s the very simple plot of the game, but there is so much more to discover. The game is made with game play as the most important factor, fast arcade fun and lots of adrenaline pumping action.

ZX SPECTRUM: ELITE COLLECTION HD
Enjoy your favorite ZX Spectrum games in HD with this elite collection of titles. This app contains 13 included games with over 12 more available for download as in app purchases. Click the app icon for a full listing of games that can be played though this app.

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