If you didn’t get enough of an ‘80s flashback with the C64 (aka Commodore 64) emulator app for the iPhone, prepare to really go back to the past all over again.

TUAW is reporting that Manomio LLC, the developers of the licensed C64 emulator which is now available free of charge, intend to expand their success with that nostalgic app and are currently working on two new ones -- one for the classic Atari 2600 and another for the Commodore Amiga 500.

This is exciting news to those of us at a certain age who grew up with the Atari 2600 as our first home video game console and then later snubbed their nose at the Windows-based PC and even the Macintosh in favor of the Amiga 500, a powerful early competitor to Apple on the hardware and software front that ultimately was brought down by bad management and a lack of sales.

Given that Apple has been openly hostile to emulators for the iPhone in the past, you’d think that these projects may never see the light of day. But Manomio “has put it its dues” (as TUAW puts it), including working with the Commodore 64 license holders to make sure everything is legally on the up and up.

For now, the projects are simply available as YouTube videos (embedded below), the first of which shows off the Atari 2600 emulator running Space Invaders, Berzerk (Berzerk!!) and Frogger in all their retro glory. Then, hang onto your Karate belt and prepare to be blown away by the Amiga 500 emulator running International Karate and Turrican II.

Hard to tell if the Manomio folks will be able to actually include these licensed games when the project does finally see the light of day, but our hat’s off to them for initiating such great apps in the first place. And hey, why stop with the iPhone? It would be great to see universal apps that also play on the iPad...