Telcogames Secures Licensing Deal With Jaleco

London (UK) & Tokyo (Japan) 10 March 2006. Mobile games publisher and distributor, Telcogames has acquired exclusive rights from Jaleco (JASDAQ 7954), the Japanese arcade and console games publishing house, to publish Jaleco's 1990's Ninja Jajamaru Kun and Rod-Land console blockbusters for Smartphone platforms.

According to the deal, Telcogames's in-house Smartphone specialist, Magic Productions, will develop both games launching Ninja Jajamaru-Kun in Europe and Rod-Land worldwide. Rod-Land and Ninja Jajamaru Kun will be developed for Symbian, Windows Mobile, Brew and J2ME platforms.

Rod-Land was originally launched as an Arcade game in 1990 (Japan). It became so successful with the coin-ops that Jaleco ported it to the Nintendo Family Computer (Famicom). The Nintendo Family Computer version sold over 150000 units in Japan, 200000 units in the US and 150000 in Europe. The Nintendo Game Boy version sold 100000 units in Japan. On Amiga, Atari ST and Commodore 64 platforms combined over 200000 units were sold in Europe alone. The Telcogames version will be an exact replica of the original Rod-Land experience.

Jamie Conyngham, CEO and Co-Founder of Telcogames said:

"We are excited to have been granted these licences from Jaleco Ltd, Japan, whose outstanding console games portfolio includes many worldwide blockbusters. The demographics for classic console gamers match the demographics for Smartphone users - they tend to be a little older. For carriers, who are seeking premium mobile gaming content, Ninja Jajamaru Kun and Rod-Land are a perfect fit to their best of breed content offering. We expect that their customers will enjoy the mobile version of these much loved classics, as the power of sophisticated Smartphones has created a completely new benchmark in mobile gaming."

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Notes to editors:

On Ninja Jajamaru Kun and Rod-Land games:

http://www.gba.gamespy.com/gameboy-advance/jajamaru-jr-denshouki-jaleco-re-mo-ari-kou/

http://www.waxy.org/archive/2004/07/09/jaleco_b.shtml

http://play-asia.com/poOS-13-28-link-71-39-49-en-70-qbw.html

On Asia-Pacific demand: Logica CMG recent survey found that 49 % of respondents were interested in mobile games (source: Logica CMG and Mobile Entertainment)

On global mobile customer base growth: 1.59bn in 2004, 1.94bn I 2005 (forecast), representing year-on-year increase of 20,5 %. (source: Informa Telecoms and Media)

On US mobile gaming growth: mobile games market has doubled year-on-year basis, representing sales of around USD570m in 2005.

On Symbian operating system expansion: Symbian OS in four new NTT DoCoMo FOMA models (F902i, D902i, SJ902i, SO902i). The series will be manufactured by Sony Ericsson, Sharp and Mitsubishi.

About Jaleco

Established in October of 1974, Jaleco (JASDAQ 7954) is a Japanese arcade and console game publishing house, headquartered in Tokyo. The company has created games for a wide variety of consoles dating back to early days of gaming to the most modern consoles, with releases for systems including the Microsoft Xbox, Sony PlayStation and PlayStation 2, as well as Famicom (NES), Super Famicom (SNES), Game Boy, 3DO, Saturn, WonderSwan, and Dreamcast.

For a short time, the company worked under the name Pacific Century Cyber Works (PCCW), and now trades and works with the name Jaleco Ltd. The American arm of Jaleco is Jaleco Entertainment. For more details, please visit http://www.jaleco.co.jp and http://www.jaleco.com

About Telcogames

Telcogames is a global publisher and distributor of mobile games supplying games directly and indirectly to 1st, 2nd and 3rd tier carriers as well as other media partners.

With a diverse catalogue of branded and unbranded content, Telcogames has an unrivalled portfolio of over 1000 mobile games from more than 100 of the best publishers and mobile game studios globally. Using a combination of partners, direct carrier relationships and local presence, Telcogames offers mobile game developers and publishers the opportunity to increase their distribution on a worldwide basis. Telcogames has offices in France, Germany, Israel, Japan, Sweden, Taiwan and the United Kingdom (HQ). For more information, please visit our website at www.telcogames.com

For any enquiries, please contact:

Takeshi Shimizu, Telcogames, Tokyo

tshimizu@telcogames.com

Irène Nyberg, Telcogames, London (media only)

irene@stratosventures.com

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