The Swedish Games
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https://theswedishgames.wordpress.com/ A blog dedicated to writing in English about games created in, or somehow associated with, Sweden, and other pieces of Swedish media related to games.
For this year’s anniversary of The Swedish Games, I’ve written about some recent personal experiences related to my favorite obscure Swedish video game, Kosmopolska: theswedishgames.wordpress.com/2026/07/09/m...
My Kosmopolska year
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 th…
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But hey, one screenshot can be a luxury for lost games media. The adventure game Rue Noir from 1998, one of the earliest ”hosted online” single player games, doesn’t even have a single screenshot online. We only have the logo. That’s all. Nothing else survived.
Bamse is a Swedish Game Boy game based on a beloved Swedish cartoon character, though it’s actually a retooling of the Australian game Baby T-Rex: theswedishgames.wordpress.com/2026/06/08/b...
Bamse (1993)
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…
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Bamse is a Swedish Game Boy game based on a beloved Swedish cartoon character, though it’s actually a retooling of the Australian game Baby T-Rex: theswedishgames.wordpress.com/2026/06/08/b...
Bamse (1993)
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…
theswedishgames.wordpress.com
The remake of the cult classic Swedish Macintosh game Dubbelmoral! has been released just in time for the 2026 Lund Carnival, and it has many interesting additions: theswedishgames.wordpress.com/2026/05/15/t...
The Dubbelmoral! remake (2026)
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 o…
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The remake of the cult classic Swedish Macintosh game Dubbelmoral! has been released just in time for the 2026 Lund Carnival, and it has many interesting additions: theswedishgames.wordpress.com/2026/05/15/t...
The Dubbelmoral! remake (2026)
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 o…
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We used to be a nation where we made games where your mother attacked you with meatballs theswedishgames.wordpress.com/2023/08/20/d...
Dubbelmoral! (1990)
Sweden has many notable universities, and several cities that can be considered “university cities”, but I believe that there is no city more associated with higher learning in Sweden than Lund, lo…
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I have made English subtitles for an episode of the Swedish PC game “The Talkshow”: theswedishgames.wordpress.com/2026/04/03/a...
An episode of The Talkshow
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 you…
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I have made English subtitles for an episode of the Swedish PC game “The Talkshow”: theswedishgames.wordpress.com/2026/04/03/a...
An episode of The Talkshow
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 you…
theswedishgames.wordpress.com
Java on the Brain is an old website with many interesting and well-made Java games by Swedish programmer Karl Hörnell: theswedishgames.wordpress.com/2026/03/08/j...
Java on the Brain (1996)
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 …
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Java on the Brain is an old website with many interesting and well-made Java games by Swedish programmer Karl Hörnell: theswedishgames.wordpress.com/2026/03/08/j...
Java on the Brain (1996)
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 …
theswedishgames.wordpress.com
I’m particularly proud of my latest addition to my website about the game Kosmopolska: A complete English translation of the game manual. kosmopolska.neocities.org/ManualEnglish
Kosmopolska - Manual
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I visited the Mattias Adolfsson exhibition today, and he was kind enough to sign the manual to my copy of Kosmopolska! I can highly recommend visting Laholm and viewing the exhibition yourself.
The Swedish Games@swedishgames.bsky.social · 9mo agoFans of Swedish game Kosmopolska may be interested to know that the Museum of Drawings in Sweden will have an exhibition of art by Mattias Adolfsson, who made the game graphics, between January 31 and May 24, 2026. Adolfsson himself will be present at the opening: teckningsmuseet.se/utstallninga...
Model showing off a T-shirt with the logo for the Swedish computer magazine “Allt om Hemdatorer” (“Everything about Home Computers”), 1983:
Lösningen is a satirical Game Boy game about the police investigation of the murder of Swedish prime minister Olof Palme: theswedishgames.wordpress.com/2026/01/15/l...
Lösningen (2025)
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 Swe…
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Lösningen is a satirical Game Boy game about the police investigation of the murder of Swedish prime minister Olof Palme: theswedishgames.wordpress.com/2026/01/15/l...
Lösningen (2025)
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 Swe…
theswedishgames.wordpress.com
Sword Princess Amaltea – The Visual Novel is based on a Swedish manga set in a fantasy world where gender roles are reversed: theswedishgames.wordpress.com/2025/12/20/s...
Sword Princess Amaltea – The Visual Novel (2021)
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…
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Sword Princess Amaltea – The Visual Novel is based on a Swedish manga set in a fantasy world where gender roles are reversed: theswedishgames.wordpress.com/2025/12/20/s...
Sword Princess Amaltea – The Visual Novel (2021)
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…
theswedishgames.wordpress.com
I translated "Møt meg i Malaga" ("Meet Me in Malaga"), an MS-DOS game produced in the late 1980s for the Norwegian Ministry of Culture and Science, intended to promote safer sex and warn about HIV risk in particular. You take on the role of a teenager backpacking across Europe by train.
Meet Me in Malaga [Unofficial English translation] : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Unofficial English translation of the Norwegian MS-DOS game Møt meg i Malaga from the late 1980s.The original game is available...
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Fans of Swedish game Kosmopolska may be interested to know that the Museum of Drawings in Sweden will have an exhibition of art by Mattias Adolfsson, who made the game graphics, between January 31 and May 24, 2026. Adolfsson himself will be present at the opening: teckningsmuseet.se/utstallninga...
Kommande utställningar
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I have made English subtitles for the humorous Swedish trailer for Gears of War 3, narrated by famous Swedish historian Hans Villius: theswedishgames.wordpress.com/2025/10/26/t...
The Swedish Gears of War 3 trailer (2011)
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 …
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I have made English subtitles for the humorous Swedish trailer for Gears of War 3, narrated by famous Swedish historian Hans Villius: theswedishgames.wordpress.com/2025/10/26/t...
The Swedish Gears of War 3 trailer (2011)
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 …
theswedishgames.wordpress.com
Swedish magazine Filter recently published an article about Neocities, and one of the examples of Swedish Neocities pages in the article is my site about Kosmopolska. It’s pretty amazing to see the name of my favorite obscure 90s game in a 2025 article! magasinetfilter.se/reportage/ne...
Tycker du att internet suger? Neocities vill ändra på det - Magasinet Filter
Istället för frihet och gemenskap fick vi AI och hatalgoritmer. Kyle Drake vill rädda internet med hjälp av Neocities.
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Journalist is a game where you do research, interview people, and make use of publicly accessible official records, all in order to write stories for a newspaper in a small Swedish town: theswedishgames.wordpress.com/2025/09/01/j...
Journalist (2000)
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 ga…
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Insert Coin is a book about the history of arcade games in Sweden, including the moral panic during the 80s that basically killed off large-scale arcades in the country for several decades: theswedishgames.wordpress.com/2025/08/15/i...
Insert Coin (2017)
Growing up in Sweden during the 1980s and 90s, my memories of arcade games are usually seeing one or two cabinets in cafés, bowling alleys, movie theatres and similar establishments. Dedicated arca…
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Insert Coin is a book about the history of arcade games in Sweden, including the moral panic during the 80s that basically killed off large-scale arcades in the country for several decades: theswedishgames.wordpress.com/2025/08/15/i...
Insert Coin (2017)
Growing up in Sweden during the 1980s and 90s, my memories of arcade games are usually seeing one or two cabinets in cafés, bowling alleys, movie theatres and similar establishments. Dedicated arca…
theswedishgames.wordpress.com
For this year’s anniversary of The Swedish Games, I’ve translated an interview with Henrik Georgsson, where he talks about his involvement in the cult classic Swedish game Kosmopolska: theswedishgames.wordpress.com/2025/07/09/d...
Dataspel för vuxna (1998)
Today is the three-year anniversary of The Swedish Games, and just like the previous anniversaries, I wanted to do something involving the game Kosmopolska, since that was the game that originally …
theswedishgames.wordpress.com
For this year’s anniversary of The Swedish Games, I’ve translated an interview with Henrik Georgsson, where he talks about his involvement in the cult classic Swedish game Kosmopolska: theswedishgames.wordpress.com/2025/07/09/d...
Dataspel för vuxna (1998)
Today is the three-year anniversary of The Swedish Games, and just like the previous anniversaries, I wanted to do something involving the game Kosmopolska, since that was the game that originally …
theswedishgames.wordpress.com
Muminspelet is a tabletop boardgame based on the Moomin characters, which was designed by Moomin creator Tove Jansson herself: theswedishgames.wordpress.com/2025/06/09/m...
Muumipeli/Muminspelet (1957)
I have previously written a post on this blog where I tried to compile a list of every game, electronic or otherwise, based on the Moomin characters (and, as I noted in that post, I consider most o…
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Muminspelet is a tabletop boardgame based on the Moomin characters, which was designed by Moomin creator Tove Jansson herself: theswedishgames.wordpress.com/2025/06/09/m...
Muumipeli/Muminspelet (1957)
I have previously written a post on this blog where I tried to compile a list of every game, electronic or otherwise, based on the Moomin characters (and, as I noted in that post, I consider most o…
theswedishgames.wordpress.com