While I love the iPhone’s accelerometer and how current apps and games take advantage of it, Super Monkey Ball is just plain hard.  Hand me a controller with a D-pad or joystick and I could make short work of it, but tilting the iPhone like a madwoman isn’t working all that well for me.  Enter iControlPad - they’ve been working on a gamepad for the iPhone for a little while now, but it looks like they are closer to a working model that would be sold for around $30.  Sound good?  Yeah, I thought so.

TouchArcade has anonymously received pictures of another iPhone gamepad that could also be in the works and they’ve posted these images.  There’s no other information on this second possible gamepad, so its validity is uncertain, to say the least.  It’s reasonable to think that there’s more than one company out there looking to capitalize on the iPhone as a gaming device, so the idea isn’t that far-fetched.

While we’re on this topic of gaming on the iPhone, I have to admit that I don’t play games all that often on my iPhone.  As I did before the advent of the 2.0 firmware and the App Store, my iPhone is primarily my phone, personal information manager, portable email and web-surfing device, and iPod, and games are something I do only when I need to kill time while waiting in line or when I’m too antsy to focus on anything else.  So, if any gamepads are released in the $30 range, that might be too steep for a casual iPhone gamer like me.  But what about you?  How much would you be willing to pay for a gamepad for your iPhone?  Tell us in the Comments section!

 Via [TouchArcade ]