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Season 1

The story of the development of the Danish video game industry from 1963 to 2018, covering games for the first Danish transistor computer, the Commodore 64, Amiga 500, SEGA Genesis/MegaDrive and Saturn, TV games, Flash web games, modern PC games and smartphones.

Where to Watch Season 1

4 Episodes

I begyndelsen var spillet
E1
I begyndelsen var spilletTells the story of Denmark's two first computer games for the GIER mainframe in 1963: NIMBI and Twenty Questions. Also tells the story of Denmark's first major game developer, Kele Line, created by a 17 year old Keld Jensen, and the following economic troubles of the company. Lastly the story of how the members of Cronic, an early Danish demo group consisting of Karsten Hvidberg, Mikale Balle and Jesper Kyd got started on video game development.
Erobr verden!
E2
Erobr verden!Tells the continued story of Søren Grønbech, who moves to USA to make the Amiga game Sword of Sodan. Also tells of his business with Ivan Sølvason who made it big with SilverRock and the development of OsWald and Hugo. Lastly continues to the story of the three Crionics developers who also move to the US to found the company Zyrinx and develop games for SEGA consoles.
AAA Eventyr
E3
AAA EventyrTells the story of the beginning of the Danish AAA game industry and how IO Interactive was founded. Another story told is of the hit teenage girl focused web game PowerBabe by Pink Floor Entertainment and the tragically canceled game Recoil Retrograd by Zeitguyz.
Indie power
E4
Indie powerTells the story behind the most downloaded game of all time, Subway Surfers from SYBO Games for mobile devices. Other indie game studio stories are also told, such as the founding of BetaDwarf and development of the game FORCED in an unused classroom which became the illegal headquarter and living space of the studio. Studio PlayDead's critically acclaimed game Limbo and Inside are discussed, as is the hit game Deep Rock Galactic by Ghost Ship Games.