Astro Boy: Tap Tap Rush is a video game for iOS

IOS

iOS is an operating system for iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, and Apple TV.IOS may also refer to:-Companies and organisations:* Illinois Ornithological Society, American state-based bird club...

. The release date coincides with the 60th anniversary of Osamu Tezuka

Osamu Tezuka

was a Japanese cartoonist, manga artist, animator, producer, activist and medical doctor, although he never practiced medicine. Born in Osaka Prefecture, he is best known as the creator of Astro Boy, Kimba the White Lion and Black Jack...

's Astro Boy. It was released in January 2011. It is also the second game in years to be released by Global Star Software, a former publishing label of Take 2 Interactive, that will be revived in Christmas 2011, despite the fact that it is 2K Play

2K Play

2K Play is an American video game publisher that primarily publishes family and budget-priced titles. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of 2K Games and Take-Two Interactive...

's former name.

Created as a collaboration between Tezuka Productions

Tezuka Productions

Tezuka Productions is a company created by Osamu Tezuka. His son, Makoto Tezuka has the goal to extend Tezuka's manga series with new issues and publish posthumous works...

, Widefos and SJ Games, gamemakers say it will feature a wealth of characters both from Astro Boy and from Osamu Tezuka's Star System

Osamu Tezuka's Star System

Over the course of his career, Osamu Tezuka reused the same characters in different roles in different stories. The way that Tezuka used the characters in his "star system" can be seen as somewhat analoguous to a film director frequently casting members of a regular "stable" of actors in different...

, including Pluto

Pluto (Astro Boy)

, known as Bruton in the English dubbed 1980 Astro Boy television series, is a fictional character created by Osamu Tezuka. He was introduced in story arc of the Astro Boy manga....

. Also featured are Professor Ochanomizu

Professor Ochanomizu

is a fictional character in the anime and manga series Astro Boy, as well as all of its many adaptions, including the 1980s series, 2003 series, and the film. Created by Osamu Tezuka, the character has since appeared in many of his other works. He serves as a guardian to Astro, and sometimes also a...

 and Daddy Walrus.