Garbage Pail Kids mobile game launched

Those 1980s collectible cards misfits return as a mobile app in "Garbage Pail Kids: The Game," creator Jago Studios announced in a joint news release with The Topps Company on Tuesday.

"Garbage Pail Kids: The Game" is a card collecting and strategy role-playing mobile game available on the App Store. Jago Studios developed the game under license from Topps, which originated the sticker trading cards in 1985 as a parody of the popular Cabbage Patch Kids dolls.

The sticker cards even led to a 1987 film, "The Garbage Pail Kids Movie."

Production of the cards stopped in 1988 after sales dwindled, but a new generation of Garbage Pail Kids stickers were introduced in 2003.

"An entire generation grew up with the outrageous and satirical character art of the Garbage Pail Kids, imagining what the cards would look like if they were to come to life," Stuart Drexler, Jago Studios CEO, said in a news release. "We are excited to bring these '80s icons to mobile and offer GPK fans entertaining new ways to interact with their favorite characters."

The mobile game incorporates fully animated versions of the 1980s cards and beyond to battle against other Garbage Pail Kids, Jago said in its release.

"When GPK was originally launched back in the day, mobile games or mobile phones did not exist," Ira Friedman, vice president of global licensing at Topps, said in a news release. "Thanks to the giant leaps in technology since those early times, our fans can now experience the fun, the thrills, and the visual audaciousness of the Garbage Pail Kids property through their phones— whenever they want."