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.
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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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October 27, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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.
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
teckningsmuseet.se
October 28, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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...
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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
October 27, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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...
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
October 27, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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...
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.
magasinetfilter.se
October 21, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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...
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:
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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…
theswedishgames.wordpress.com
September 1, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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...
theswedishgames.wordpress.com/2025/09/01/j...
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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
August 15, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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 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
August 15, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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...
Reposted by The Swedish Games
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
July 9, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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...
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
July 9, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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...
Reposted by The Swedish Games
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
June 9, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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...
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
June 9, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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...
Reposted by The Swedish Games
Hooja: The Game is based on a Swedish music group that jokes about stereotypes about people from northern Sweden. theswedishgames.wordpress.com/2025/05/20/h...
Hooja: The Game (2023)
The Torne Valley (“Tornedalen” in Swedish, “Tornionlaakso” in Finnish) is a large region that stretches across the border between Sweden and Finland. The people who live in this region are known as…
theswedishgames.wordpress.com
May 20, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Hooja: The Game is based on a Swedish music group that jokes about stereotypes about people from northern Sweden. theswedishgames.wordpress.com/2025/05/20/h...
Hooja: The Game is based on a Swedish music group that jokes about stereotypes about people from northern Sweden. theswedishgames.wordpress.com/2025/05/20/h...
Hooja: The Game (2023)
The Torne Valley (“Tornedalen” in Swedish, “Tornionlaakso” in Finnish) is a large region that stretches across the border between Sweden and Finland. The people who live in this region are known as…
theswedishgames.wordpress.com
May 20, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Hooja: The Game is based on a Swedish music group that jokes about stereotypes about people from northern Sweden. theswedishgames.wordpress.com/2025/05/20/h...
Hjälp! Rånare! is a Swedish book that was adapted into a TV miniseries, with some impressive animated video game-inspired sequences: theswedishgames.wordpress.com/2025/03/26/h...
Hjälp! Rånare! (2002)
Laura Trenter is the daughter of famous Swedish detective book authors Stieg Trenter and Ulla Trenter, so it’s perhaps not surprising that she has written crime fiction as well. Unlike the works of…
theswedishgames.wordpress.com
March 26, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Hjälp! Rånare! is a Swedish book that was adapted into a TV miniseries, with some impressive animated video game-inspired sequences: theswedishgames.wordpress.com/2025/03/26/h...
The Talkshow is a Swedish game with an unique gameplay premise, an impressive voice cast, multimedia ambitions, and a lot of “edgy” humor.
theswedishgames.wordpress.com/2025/01/23/t...
theswedishgames.wordpress.com/2025/01/23/t...
The Talkshow (2001)
Content warning: Description of a game with “edgy” humor, including mentions of sex and drug use. I must admit that I haven’t personally watched a lot of TV talk shows, and especially not the “tabl…
theswedishgames.wordpress.com
January 23, 2025 at 11:56 AM
The Talkshow is a Swedish game with an unique gameplay premise, an impressive voice cast, multimedia ambitions, and a lot of “edgy” humor.
theswedishgames.wordpress.com/2025/01/23/t...
theswedishgames.wordpress.com/2025/01/23/t...
I have created an article for the Swedish game Kosmopolska on The Cutting Room Floor, with the cut content I wrote about in my most recent blog post (including the unused sound files!):
tcrf.net/Kosmopolska
tcrf.net/Kosmopolska
Kosmopolska - The Cutting Room Floor
tcrf.net
November 14, 2024 at 8:09 PM
I have created an article for the Swedish game Kosmopolska on The Cutting Room Floor, with the cut content I wrote about in my most recent blog post (including the unused sound files!):
tcrf.net/Kosmopolska
tcrf.net/Kosmopolska
I have discovered a number of unused graphics in the Swedish game Kosmopolska, suggesting a gameplay element that didn’t make it into the final game: theswedishgames.wordpress.com/2024/11/13/u...
Unused graphics in Kosmopolska
As I noted in my post about the obscure Swedish game Kosmopolska, the game consists of several different types of gameplay, including a series of real time strategy missions in which you’re competi…
theswedishgames.wordpress.com
November 13, 2024 at 7:50 PM
I have discovered a number of unused graphics in the Swedish game Kosmopolska, suggesting a gameplay element that didn’t make it into the final game: theswedishgames.wordpress.com/2024/11/13/u...
I have made an English translation of a comic from the Swedish version of MAD Magazine, joking about the integration of computers and video games into the TV medium during the late 1990s: theswedishgames.wordpress.com/2024/10/07/m...
Med MAD Mot Mediemörkret (2000)
For a number of decades, there existed a Swedish version of the American comedy magazine MAD, called Svenska MAD (“Swedish MAD”). It actually ran during two periods: The first started in 1960 and r…
theswedishgames.wordpress.com
October 7, 2024 at 12:32 PM
I have made an English translation of a comic from the Swedish version of MAD Magazine, joking about the integration of computers and video games into the TV medium during the late 1990s: theswedishgames.wordpress.com/2024/10/07/m...
8 Bitar – Jakten på karnevalsbiljetten is the second game based on the Lund Carnival, and is much larger than the first one: theswedishgames.wordpress.com/2024/09/19/8...
8 Bitar – Jakten på karnevalsbiljetten (2006)
I have previously written about the game Dubbelmoral!, which was the official game of the 1990 Lund Carnival, an event which is arranged every four years by university students in the Swedish city of ...
theswedishgames.wordpress.com
September 24, 2024 at 10:13 AM
8 Bitar – Jakten på karnevalsbiljetten is the second game based on the Lund Carnival, and is much larger than the first one: theswedishgames.wordpress.com/2024/09/19/8...
BackPacker is a globetrotting trivia game that became extremely popular in Sweden, but doesn’t seem to have gained the same attention elsewhere, despite being released in several languages, including English: theswedishgames.wordpress.com/2024/08/18/b...
BackPacker (1995)
Many of the Swedish games I’ve written about on this blog can probably be considered pretty obscure, or at best “cult classics”, not just in foreign countries due to the language barrier, but also in ...
theswedishgames.wordpress.com
September 24, 2024 at 10:12 AM
BackPacker is a globetrotting trivia game that became extremely popular in Sweden, but doesn’t seem to have gained the same attention elsewhere, despite being released in several languages, including English: theswedishgames.wordpress.com/2024/08/18/b...
Kanonprogrammet is the earliest known Swedish computer game that is still available to play in some fashion: theswedishgames.wordpress.com/2024/06/18/k...
Kanonprogrammet (1960)
The earliest known computer game created in Sweden was for the machine known as SMIL (an acronym for “Siffermaskinen i Lund”, “The Number Machine in Lund”), which according to different sources was th...
theswedishgames.wordpress.com
September 24, 2024 at 10:10 AM
Kanonprogrammet is the earliest known Swedish computer game that is still available to play in some fashion: theswedishgames.wordpress.com/2024/06/18/k...
Sociopolitical Ramifications is an online game created in Sweden, by two people who were important contributors to the early #furry fandom: theswedishgames.wordpress.com/2023/12/14/s...
Sociopolitical Ramifications (1994)
Content warning: Discussion of a game with erotic content. The Swedish city of Linköping, located about 200 km south of Stockholm, in the province of Östergötland, is a university city, similar to Lun...
theswedishgames.wordpress.com
September 24, 2024 at 10:09 AM
Sociopolitical Ramifications is an online game created in Sweden, by two people who were important contributors to the early #furry fandom: theswedishgames.wordpress.com/2023/12/14/s...
I have written an English-language guide to emulating the old Swedish personal computer ABC 80: theswedishgames.wordpress.com/2023/09/16/e...
Emulating the ABC 80
Update 2024-08-21: I've found an additional, easier way to create disk images for the emulator with the program "ABCExplorer", and have updated the relevant section of this post with information about...
theswedishgames.wordpress.com
September 24, 2024 at 10:08 AM
I have written an English-language guide to emulating the old Swedish personal computer ABC 80: theswedishgames.wordpress.com/2023/09/16/e...
Dubbelmoral! is a comedy computer game based on Swedish student culture and the traditional Lund Carnival: 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, locat...
theswedishgames.wordpress.com
September 24, 2024 at 10:08 AM
Dubbelmoral! is a comedy computer game based on Swedish student culture and the traditional Lund Carnival: theswedishgames.wordpress.com/2023/08/20/d...