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Greve Graphics was the first video game developer

Video game developer

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in Scandinavia. The company was founded in 1982, by Lars Hård (executive director

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, programmer

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and musician

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), Bengt Caroli (programmer) and Nils Hård (graphics

Graphics

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). The publisher was American Action

American Action (company)

American Action was a Swedish company that, during the 1980s, published many computergames for the homecomputer Commodore 64. Among the games was Zorro , Law of the West , Soldier One , Captured , The SuperCan , Blood'n Guts , 1943 - One Year After , Sky...

Games

The companies first game was Soldier One. It was a wargame, containing seven minigames. The game was marketed hard in Scandinavia, there hundreds of thousands kids got an advertisement leaflet in the mailbox. The game sold over 75.000 copies only in Sweden.

Greve Graphics developed och released, from 1985 to 1987, the following games:

1985 - Soldier One
1986 - The SuperCan
The SuperCan (video game)
The SuperCan is a computer game for the Commodore 64 from 1986, developed by Greve Graphics and published by American Action. The music in The SuperCan was the first to include Single-channel delay....

(never released)
1986 - Captured
Captured (video game)
Captured is a platform game for the Commodore 64 from 1986, developed by the Swedish Greve Graphics and published by American Action. The main game was programmed by Bengt Caroli. The music and sound engine was programmed by Lars Hård. Lars also composed all original music and made all sound effects...
1986 - Blood'n guts
1987 - 1943 - One Year After
1987 - Goremium (only in 5 copies, not complet)

Collectionbox

Four of the company's games was released in a collectonbox 1987 called 4 Action Hits (there one of the gamenames was shorten to "'43: One Year After").

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