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I am Scott Stein and I'm here to talk about when iPad accessories go horribly wrong that's right for all the sleekness that is an iPad there are a lot of big bulky accessories they just don't need and unfortunately Discovery Bay games has two of them the duo gamer and the duo pinball what do you need these for well one place pinball one is a game controller one of them only works with one app the other one only works with five games that one costs $80 one cost $60 this is a lot of money to pay and frankly it's just not worth it but let's go down with each one of them and talk about why it's not worth it the duo gamer is at first something I thought I was gonna be really excited about it's a game controller for the iPad now I've really been waiting for one of these how could it possibly go wrong well first of all it's $80 that's $20 more than you'd pay for an Xbox 360 controller or a PlayStation 3 controller and Discovery Bay games controller does not feel very good this feels kind of like something you'd find it maybe a third-party knockoff worse than that feels very Hollow and stiff but it does have dual analog pads sounds great right well what can you use this with you can only use it with a select collection of Gameloft games what well Discovery Bay claims that this may be the way that accessories have to work with apps in the App Store nevertheless you want something like this to be universal you want this thing to work with as many games as possible it does work with the iPhone and I actually connected an iPhone 5 and played asphalt 7 on it that's fun but ridiculous I mean this thing is so much larger than an iPhone it's oh it looks like an iphone could actually fit inside and it runs off of two double-a batteries that come included pairs simply via bluetooth comes with this little stand but for $80 I mean you don't need this and that brings us to the duo pinball now I love pinball and I love pinball apps I love pinball apps on the iPad why wouldn't I like to do a pinball well it only works with one app or one collection of apps pinball collection HD by game problem it's a great collection of pinball games it's 11 games in there but there are pinball apps on the App Store and also pinball is already a pretty small subset of gaming and to have it be one app amongst many apps really limits what this is going to be used for and it does work reasonably well but there is a bit of a delay because of bluetooth so it's not quite as lightning quick as you'd expect and here's the thing if you're gonna play pinball games on an iPad you can tap on the screen with your fingers it's really not that hard above all the games out there that are hindered by by going to a touchscreen pinball is definitely not one of them now as a novelty gift maybe is a $10 $15 item that came with a bunch of pinball games like classic games like Midway Bally games I could see this being something that might be fun to get somebody but for $60 and not being compatible with some of the great titles out there like pinball arcade and the fact that it feels kind of weird strange construction that you don't want this and nobody really wants this peripheral oh what could have been do Oh gamer duo pinball what if these things were compatible with more games when you consider $80 and $60 equals 140 dollars is $60 less than the entry-level price of an iPhone 5 well what are you spending money on these things for I'm Scott Stein and that's a look at some of the accessories I wouldn't buy you