Generation 64 - How the Commodore 64 inspired a generation of Swedish gamers 🌎

The Commodore 64 proved to be a milestone release in the world of computing. Launched in 1982, it immediately captured the imaginations of an entire generation of gamers, artists, musicians, crackers and programmers, who would push its meagre hardware to create a range of amazing games, demos, art packages, CAD programs and music synthesisers. Young people the world over learned their craft on the C64, but in Sweden the machine’s legacy is unparalleled: it sired a raft of incredible talent s who have since gone on to create amazing products and services that have, without exaggeration, changed the world. Generation 64 by Jimmy Wilhelmsson chronicles this talented group , tracing their path s from backroom coders to giants of the connected world. Karl Hornell was a games developer who created P oker Room.com in 1999, which was later sold to Ongame for £450 million. Frederik Liljegren started a demo group , and later became the founder of highly respected developer DICE, which produced Star Wars: Battlefront . Kim Nordstrom started life as a graphic designer, helped develop the PlayStation 4 , and is now Head of Studio at King, which enjoyed some success with a little game called C andy Crush Saga . Former coder Oskar Stål is now Chief Technical Officer of the music streaming service Spotify. And on it goes… Bitmap Books is proud to present the English language version of Generation 64 , which features in-depth interviews with dozens of Swedish entrepreneurs.