A website about Swedish game history
Mats Jonsson grew up during the 1970s and 80s in the northern part of Sweden, in the municipality of Kramfors. He began drawing comics at an early age, creating several fanzines during the 80s. After having studied to become a… Continue reading →
Today is the four-year anniversary of The Swedish Games, and as usual, I want to celebrate it by writing something about my favorite Swedish game, the game that inspired me to start this blog in the first place, Kosmopolska. I… Continue reading →
The cartoon bear Bamse, created in 1966 by Rune Andréasson, is one of Sweden’s most beloved children’s comics characters. While the character is most famous as the star of his own comic book, which started in 1973 and has been… Continue reading →
A few years ago, I wrote a blog post about the 1990 Macintosh game Dubbelmoral! (“Double standard!”), which was the official game of the venerable Lund Carnival that year (and I later made a post on Cohost about my visit… Continue reading →
I have previously written about the game The Talkshow, in which you play as the host of a TV tabloid talk show, with the goal of revealing various shameful secrets and other dirty laundry about your guests during each episode.… Continue reading →
Karl Hubert Hörnell has periodically been a fairly productive solo video game developer. He began his career as a teenager in the 1980s, programming for the Commodore 64, and according to the book Svensk videospelsutveckling, is the Swede with most… Continue reading →
On the night of February 28, 1986, the Prime Minister of Sweden Olof Palme was shot to death in central Stockholm, when he was walking home from a movie with his wife, Lisbeth. The news shocked Sweden; no Swedish politician… Continue reading →
There had been a few attempts at publishing Japanese manga and anime in Sweden during the 1980s and 90s, with various degrees of success, but the publication of a Swedish translation of Dragon Ball, which started in 2000, is usually… Continue reading →
Hans Emil Villius (1923-2012) was an extremely famous and beloved Swedish historian. He wrote dissertations and books about many historical events, but became known to a wider audience between the 1960s and 90s, when he worked for Swedish radio and… Continue reading →
The game Journalist, released in 2000 on CD-ROM for PC and Mac, is set in the fictional Swedish town Midköping. The player character (you can choose their gender and name at the beginning of the game) is a journalist that… Continue reading →