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Space Action
Developer(s)Arne Fernlund
Publisher(s)Handic Software AB[2]
Platform(s)Commodore 64
Release1983[1]
Genre(s)Scrolling shooter

Space Action is a horizontally scrolling shooter created for the Commodore 64 by Arne Fernlund.[3] The game took three months to develop and was distributed on cartridge by the Swedish company Handic. More than 10,000 copies were sold world-wide. The game became popular in Italy, where about 7,000 of the copies were sold, and was also a minor success in Australia.[2]

Legacy

Space Action made an appearance at an exhibition that the Swedish National Museum of Science and Technology held in 2008.[4]

Fernlund did some work on a sequel, Space Action 2, but it was never completed.[5]

The history behind Fernlund creating Space Action was featured in the Swedish documentary "Det svenska spelundret" (eng. "The Swedish gaming wonder").[6]

References

  1. ^ "Veteraner berättar om spelbranschen från 80-talet och framåt" (in Swedish). 30 September 2009. Archived from the original on 2012-03-28. Retrieved 2011-07-28.
  2. ^ a b "Pionjärerna - berättelsen om den svenska spelprogrammeringens förgrundsfigurer" (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 2012-03-24. Retrieved 2011-07-28.
  3. ^ "Fynd från dataspelens stenålder" (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 2011-09-27. Retrieved 2011-07-28.
  4. ^ "Historia och nutid med spel på museum" (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 2012-10-07. Retrieved 2011-07-28.
  5. ^ "Space Action 2". Games That Weren't. September 8, 2014. Archived from the original on January 6, 2018. Retrieved January 5, 2018.
  6. ^ "Varning för barn". Det svenska spelundret. Season 1 (in Swedish). August 18, 2021. Event occurs at 23:31. Sveriges Television. Archived from the original on August 18, 2021. Retrieved August 18, 2021.