Under the agreement THQ has rights to publish wireless games based on more than fifty Intellivision brands including some of the 1980s’ most popular games, such as Utopia, Night Stalker, Space Battle, Space Armada, Shark! Shark!, Armor Battle, Triple Action, and Astrosmash. The first game to be released, Astromash, will be launched initially in the US for the Motorola i85 and i50sx phones.
Millions of people have fond memories of Intellivision from their childhood, and we take that legacy seriously, said Keith Robinson, president of Intellivision Productions, Inc. and one of the original Intellivision game developers. We found the same pioneering spirit at THQ that Intellivision had back in the early Eighties. That and their publishing track record make THQ the ideal partner to bring our classic titles to the next generation of gaming technology.
Big things are expected of the wireless gaming industry as mobile phone technology broadens possibilities. According to Datamonitor, there are already 21.6 million wireless gamers in the US for THQ to market its games to.
