Play official Commodore 64 games on your mobile phone
Kiloo signs deal with Commodore to bring C64 into the mobile era
Gamers of a certain age, you better sit down – this is genuinely exciting news. Kiloo has signed a deal with Commodore to co-publish more than 20 'classic' C64 games for mobile phones.
The games will be taken mostly from the original computer's heyday (the early-to-mid 1980s), and will be released over the next two and a half years.
Kiloo has also revealed details of the first three games in the series. They are thrusting space game Jupiter Lander, futuristic noughts and crosses game Triad, and brick-pushing title Jack Attack.
Okay, so they're not that exciting, but you have to start somewhere. Fingers crossed that the other 17 games include the likes of Paradroid, Creatures, Wizball, Bruce Lee, Grog's Revenge, Pub Games, and Emlyn Hughes International Soccer. Although we admit that is a personal request list.
Of course, which games come to mobile will depend on Kiloo and Commodore first figuring out who owns the rights to certain classic C64 games – not easy if the particular publishing companies went bust long ago – and then signing them up.
