The Swedish Games

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 …

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...

You're right, it seems that most of the games are available there as well! And I'm glad that they've apparently been able to make Urbanoids work, with its combination of Java and HTML. Thanks for the tip!

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 …

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...

Kosmopolska - Manual

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

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.

Model showing off a T-shirt with the logo for the Swedish computer magazine “Allt om Hemdatorer” (“Everything about Home Computers”), 1983:

This looks great! Would it be okay if I reposted it on Tumblr?

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…

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…

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...

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…

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…

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...

Sure, I'll give that the official The Swedish Games stamp of approval, because it would be really funny.

If you were to make a third Tron game, what genre would it be?

I've been thinking about writing about IMP sometime in the future, and this looks like an amazing resource, thank you so much!

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...

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.

Kommande utställningar

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...

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 …

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 …

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...

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.

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 (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…

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...

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…

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…

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...

I absolutely love this article, and appreciate the exhaustive research you did for it. I'm happy to know that despite the company name, Sweden can't be blamed for Custer's Revenge.

I want to go to a Swedish Pride parade with a sign that says "KÖN BÖRJAR HÄR" ("The line/gender/sex starts here"), and an arrow pointing down at my head.

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 …

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 …

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...

I've become fascinated by the "enchanced CD" format recently (there are apparently at least two different Swedish music CDs with games on them), but I didn't know it was used to try to combat piracy!

Best Swedish Gundam pilot since Allenby Beardsley.

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…

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…

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...