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SVT<\/a> is the Swedish national public television. They recently announced their new series Det svenska spelundret<\/a>, which translated to “The Swedish game wonder” or something. It is a five episode documentary series about the history behind and the creation of the flourishing Swedish computer game industry. In Swedish and the only subtitles available are also in Swedish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In episode two, there’s a look into the home computer demo scene of the late 80s and early 90s that more or less kick-started some of the early game studios.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You know who were very present in the Swedish demo scene in the late 1980s? Me. I even dabbled a little into games and I wrote a few, at least beginnings of games on the Commodore 64, but I didn’t have the persistence and discipline to finish those projects so they never actually ended up anywhere further than playable prototypes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I grabbed a frame from the show. At 5:06 there’s this photo, taken at some copy party<\/em> in the late 80s (in the show they say early 90s but many photos were older). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The yellow circle was added by me to better highlight yours truly. Behind me in the blue-white striped shirt is my brother Bj\u00f6rn. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

This specific picture was from the copy party in Eskilstuna<\/a> Sweden 12 – 15 May 1989 that I helped organize. A few hundred teenage nerds in a school over the weekend. I was eighteen years old at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We, in the form of the demo group Horizon, won the demo competition there with our demo Dolly Party<\/a><\/em> (in which I contributed code using my nick name Bagder<\/strong>). Here’s a YouTube recording of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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