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T O D A Y · I · V I S I T E D · an event called Retrogathering 2008 in Stockholm, Sweden, an annual gathering for fans of old video and computer games. Gaming consoles and computers like C64, Nintendo NES, Sinclair Spectrum and Ataris. Lectures was presented by the early days enterpreneurs, today veterans. There was early conections between the music business and video games industry in the early days. CBS for example was involeved in the develpment of the PacMan game.

A video game quiz with 22 tunes was presented. Composer and game title you where supposed to remember. Music from C64, Nintendo NES and some remixes it was. I think of myself as a kind of video game music fan, but I got completely lost and succeded realy badly. I speaked with a dude that came as 6 in this competition and 2 in an overall retrogame competition. He was pleased with the day, two placements in the video game circuit in only one day. Old video game machines and subjects around them, have became objects for fashination just like old cars used to be.

The image above shows the price cermony and winner of swedich championships in original Pong video game at Retrogathering 2008 in Stockholm, Sweden.
Mr. Martin Lindell from the Swedish Game Industry Association hosted the event. More than 200 individuals attended the event.

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B I G · E V E N T · W I T H · D I C E · May 22 05.30 PM at SoStockholm Kungsträdgården. Per Strömbäck from Dataspelsbranchen.se Björn Norberg from MejanLabs and Peter Henriksson HR manager at Dice. Food and drinks and discussions.

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I · H A V E · R E L E A S E D · a demo album called "Expost Nuus" in Februar. A sample with short exerptions could be found here on allears.se. The theme is travelling and is comprehended as a concept album for a travelling video game where the main character visits different exotic places. The album is in an orcestral instrumental genre.

Visit AllEars.se and listen to the Demo

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