Mygrandmotherisgone

2021-03-09

Swedish arcade/pinball links

Visiting or living in Sweden and want to enjoy some pinball and arcades? Try these links! Hit the thumbs up for their Facebook pages. Report dead links or give us a new one in the contact form to the right. Enjoy!

Last updated: 2021-03-17

BUY A NEW PINBALL

FALKENBERG www.4fun.nu (American Pinball, Chicago Gaming & Jersey Jack) 👍
KUNGÄLV www.retroarcade.se (Homepin)
LINKÖPING www.arcadedreams.se (Stern) 👍
STOCKHOLM www.flipperdoktorn.se (Stern) 👍
NORWAY/SWEDEN www.parts4pinballs.com (Stern main distributor) 👍
ÖREBRO www.free-play.se (Pinball Brothers, Spooky Pinball) 👍

BUY A USED PINBALL

GÖTEBORG www.adonbolagen.se 👍
SWEDEN www.blocket.se
SWEDEN www.svenskaflippersallskapet.com
SWEDEN Flipper- & Arkadspel (Forum, Köp & Sälj) (6500 Facebook members) 👍
SWEDEN Flipperspel (1600 Facebook members) 👍

RENT A PINBALL

BORÅS www.pinballseye.se 👍
HYSSNA www.gameroom.se 👍
LINKÖPING www.ralfsarkadspel.se 👍
MALMÖ www.thesilverball.se
STOCKHOLM www.flipperdoktorn.se 👍
STOCKHOLM www.flippergubben.se 👍
VÄSTERÅS Black Lounge Pinball 👍
VÄSTERÅS www.flippin.se 👍
ÖREBRO www.free-play.se 👍

REPAIR YOUR PINBALL

BORÅS HPin-restore 👍
DEGERFORS www.degerforcepinball.wordpress.com 👍
HYSSNA www.gameroom.se 👍
RONNEBY www.flipperservice.se 👍
JÖNKÖPING Urban Berg 👍
SKELLEFTEÅ www.mygrandmotherisgone.se 👍
STOCKHOLM www.flipperdoktorn.se 👍
STOCKHOLM www.flipperexperten.se 👍

PINBALL SPARE PARTS

HYSSNA www.gameroom.se 👍
KLAGSTORP www.pin-games.se
LINKÖPING www.demand.nu/retrotech
ÖREBRO www.free-play.se 👍
TAIWAN/NORWAY www.scandinavianpinball.com 👍

BUY A NEW ARCADE GAME

BJUV www.bjuvia.se
KUNGÄLV www.retroarcade.se
LINKÖPING www.arcadedreams.se 👍
STOCKHOLM www.biljardexperten.se

BUY A USED ARCADE GAME

SWEDEN www.arkadtorget.se
SWEDEN www.blocket.se
SWEDEN Flipper- & Arkadspel (Forum, Köp & Sälj) (6500 Facebook members) 👍

REPAIR YOUR ARCADE GAME

GÖTEBORG www.fix-on.se 👍
HYSSNA www.gameroom.se 👍
SKELLEFTEÅ www.mygrandmotherisgone.se 👍
STOCKHOLM www.flipperdoktorn.se 👍

ARCADE GAME SPARE PARTS

HASSELA www.arkadbutiken.se 👍
HYSSNA www.gameroom.se 👍
KISTA www.elfa.se
LINKÖPING www.demand.nu/retrotech
MALMÖ www.mouser.se
ÖREBRO www.free-play.se 👍

SIMILAR MACHINES FOR ARCADES

BORÅS www.bactive.se
HÖGANÄS www.bexsport.com 👍 / www.gamesson.com 👍
JÖNKÖPING www.biljardkungen.se 👍
KARLSTAD www.katsu.se
KARLSTAD www.ringbingo.se 👍
KRISTIANSTAD www.raysautomater.se
GÄVLE www.spelbord.se 👍
GÄVLE www.spelexperten.com 👍
SKÖVDE www.shufl.se 👍
STOCKHOLM www.biljardexperten.se 👍
STOCKHOLM www.spelaktiviteter.se 👍
ÄNGELHOLM www.biljardbolaget.se

OKAY, OKAY... BUT WHERE DO I PLAY!?!?

The following places has at least 10+ games:

THANKS! TEACH ME MORE!

www.arkadtorget.se
www.bally.se
www.cc.arkadtorget.se
www.flippersm.se
Fornjot Pinball 👍
www.geekjoan.com
www.instagram.com/sveark
Northern Pinball
www.pinballbrothers.com
www.spelinspektionen.se 👍
www.stockholmpinball.com
www.svenskaflippersallskapet.com

DEFUNCT (OR ON HOLD?) PAGES/PLACES/COMPANIES/ORGANISATIONS

www.arf.arkadtorget.se
KALMAR Kalmar Pinball 👍
www.retro-games.se
www.retrospelsmassan.se/isa
www.scandimatic.se
Spelautomatsamlarnas Förening
SVAR - Sveriges Automatutställares Riksförening

INTERNATIONAL HOT PINBALL LINKS

www.ipdb.org
www.ifpapinball.com
www.ipsnd.net
www.pinside.com
www.pinballowners.com
www.replayfoundation.org
www.thisweekinpinball.com

INTERNATIONAL HOT ARCADE LINKS

www.arcadeotaku.com
www.arcade-museum.com
www.ukvac.com
www.twingalaxies.com

2018-12-19

Rederiet Gamer's Guide

Rederiet is Sweden's longest running soap opera on TV. I lasted 20 seasons from 1992 to 2002. A total of 318 episodes was produced. Every episode was 45 minutes long making it 14 310 minutes or almost 239 hours of pure fun. All episodes are available at SVT Play. The series actually contains some funny moments for gamers. We will here let you know all of them as we watch it all over again.

1992

Season 1, episode 5 (10:30): One of Gustafs monitors are acting weird. This monitor/TV is almost the same as the SABA M 25 that Victor from Revansch! uses.

Season 1, episode ? (??:??): Pirojo's son Esa is playing Game Boy in one of the episodes, forgot which though.

1993

Season 3, episode 1 (4:30): One of the founders and the former general of Retrospelsmässan appears briefly with his grandmother when Uno is falling in the stairs. His name is Kristofer Aspman-Hansson, nowadays a Swedish game collector. Very young in this episode.

Season 3, episode 8 (39:30): A girl is playing the pinball Whirlwind (Williams, 1990) in the ship's arcade hall. And yes, she places here soda on top of the glass. You can also see Electrocoin's Neo Geo cabinet, two SEGA Mega Tech and SEGA's Virtua Racing. There is at least one more pinball in the room, unknown title though. And a exchange machine.

Season 3, episode 12 (30:00): Raspen is playing the pinball Creature from the Black Lagoon (Bally, 1992) when thinking of Kåkå, he is approached by two beautiful women that wants him to join them to the disco. He refuses. You can also see Rollergames (Williams, 1990), two(!) Star Wars (Data East, 1992) and the brand new games White Water (Williams, 1993) and Rocky & Bullwinkle (Data East, 1993). A girl is sitting on one of the Star Wars machine talking to her boyfriend. In the background a racing game is slightly shown, but which game is it?

(34:00) Later in the same episode Raspen plays Super Nintendo among the famous Bergsala plastic mountains, on a Philips CRT TV. A Finnish boy helps him. You can see the Game Boy logo on several places. Kåkå i pregnant, maybe a child would be fun after all he seems to think.

Season 3, episode 15 (32:00): Raspen has multiball on the pinball The Addams Family (Bally, 1992) when Kåkå interrups.

1994

Season 5, episode 4 (36:00): A drunken unpleasant man destroys one of the ship's one-armed bandits. You can clearly see that the owner of the slot machine is Sven-Aage Bengtsson's company Arcadia, who also had arcade games at for example Gröna Lund.

Season 5, episode 9 (29:00): Pehr Silver har turned the restaurant into a western themed one. Without any real reason Siv Svensson is playing Game Boy (probably Tetris, if it is turned on?) in the bar, when her boyfriend Carl is mocking her. You can also see the slot machines again in this episode.

1996

Season 8, episode 9 (33:00): After some seasons without any real gaming references (just lots of gambling) we again meet the Game Boy in the bar. Little girl Blanca loans Jokers gaming device. Tony helps her start the Golf game seen in the scene. The sound is probably from another game though.

1997

Season 11, episode 7 (1:58): Tony is in the hospital with the kid Jonas. He gives the analog Real Hockey game to him as a present. This game by SweGame AB challenged the classic Stiga table hockey in the 90s, but was soon forgotten again.

Season 11, episode 9 (2:25): Tony is again in the hospital with Jonas. Jonas has a very nice bed set with classic 90s racing Super Mario! Worth a peak. Can also be seen in episode 11 and 12.

Season 11, episode 12 (31:58): Finally some real video games again! Jonas gets a Game Boy Pocket in silver from his dad. The game cartridge is yellow and probably Donkey Kong Land (Rare, 1995), but the screen is really hard to see. It might be number 2 in the series also, it was released at this time. However number 3 was not.

To be continued...

2018-11-28

Swedish comics timeline

Here it is, the timeline over the longest running comics in Sweden. I think I got the hold of everyone over 30 years in business. Of course Kalle Anka (Donald Duck) is in the frontseat with it's 70 years. Sad thing that Egmont canned Seriemagasinet in the year of 2000, it was then tied with Donald and could have been used to test lots of comics since the name isn't tied to any specific comic.

You can see Egmont's efforts in two ways. One is that they is the big bad company with almost monopoly over Swedish comics. At least if you talk about recurrent comic magazines, lots of others release albums for example. On the other hand what would have been left if not Egmont did it? Nothing at all?

Fantomen (The Phantom) is very popular in Sweden and the second longest running comic magazine. 91:an i currently having the third place and Knasen (Bettle Bailey) will become fourth in just five years. Both funny comics about the life at an army base. It is also interesting to see what companies have publiced the different magazines through the years. Look for the colors.

The very first Swedish comic book was Musse Pigg-Tidningen (The Mickey Mouse paper) in 1937. Beating Donald Duck with over 10 years! The big suprise on this chart is probably Tom & Jerry, still so popular they can have their own magazine!

If you see something wrong here, just mail us!

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2018-10-31

Best board games?

This is the best board games each year according to some different awards. The names are mostly in English, but in the original language if such a name is missing.

American "Origins Award" is also an important price but has a very confusing time line and lots of different awards that inflict with each other. The Swedish price "Årets spel" is not a very important price but one of the oldest beginning in 1984.

Interestingly enough "Årets spel" 2018 is Diamant, a game from 2005! All others in this list chose Azul. But this seems to be the way of board games, they are not released everywhere at the same time. Good games might last longer than people think. Another example is the "Spiel des Jahres" winner in 1991: Um Reifenbreite that is actually a Dutch game from 1979!

It also seems that the Swedish jury during the 00s had almost the same taste for board games as "Spiel des Jahres", but later that changed again. Weirdly, Ubongo has won "Årets spel" twice, first 2003 under the name Pyramidens portar, then again in 2009! Somebody did not know their own history very well.

If you see something wrong in this list, please mail us. As you also see there are some questions marks. The "Origins Awards" are so full of questions it is impossible to list it...

	Spiel des Jahres	Årets spel	As d'Or	Deutscher Spiele Preis
	Germany	Sweden	France	Germany
2019	Just One	Planet	The Mind	Wingspan
2018	Azul	Diamant	Azul	Azul
2017	Kingdomino	Patchwork	Unlock!	Terraforming Mars
2016	Codenames	Otrio	Mysterium	Mombasa
2015	Colt Express	Klask	Colt Express	The Voyages of Marco Polo
2014	Camel Up	La Boca	Concept	Russian Railroads
2013	Hanabi	Quizmysteriet	Legends of Andor	Terra Mystica
2012	Kingdom Builder	Lift it!	Takenoko	Village
2011	Qwirkle	LEGO Champion	Skull	7 Wonders
2010	Dixit	Ponder	Duplik	Fresco
2009	Dominion	Ubongo	Dixit	Dominion
2008	Keltis	Niagara	Marrakech	Agricola
2007	Zooloretto	Portobello Market	Wicked Witches Way	The Pillars of the Earth
2006	Thurn and Taxis	Bernini	Time's Up!	Caylus
2005	Niagara	Ticket to Ride	?	Louis XIV
2004	Ticket to Ride	Blokus	Ticket to Ride	Saint Petersburg
2003	Alhambra	Ubongo (Pyramidens P.)	Alhambra	Amun-Re
2002	Villa Paletti	Carcassonne	Bakari	Puerto Rico
2001	Carcassonne	Diceman	Blokus	Carcassonne
2000	Torres	N.Y. Chase	Kahuna	Taj Mahal
1999	Tikal	Herre på täppan	Spice Navigator	Tikal
1998	Elfenland	Lotus	Zatre	Tigris & Euphrates
1997	Mississippi Queen	Svea rike	Gang of Four	Löwenherz
1996	El Grande	Snapshot	Magic - The Gathering	El Grande
1995	The Settlers of Catan	Manhattan	Condottiere	The Settlers of Catan
1994	Manhattan	Foqus	Pusher	Take 6!
1993	Call my Bluff	Spectrangle	Pipeline	Modern Art
1992	Um Reifenbreite	Ostindiska kompaniet	Quarto	Flying Dutchman
1991	Drunter und Drüber	Maestro	?	Master Labyrinth
1990	Adel Verpflichtet	Balderdash	Tutankhamen's Rev.	Hoity Toity
1989	Café International	Ave Caesar	Abalone
1988	Barbarossa	The aMAZEing Labyrinth	SuperGang
1987	Auf Achse	Orient Express
1986	Top Secret Spies	Phantoms vs Phantoms
1985	Sherlock Holmes	Trivial Pursuit
1984	Railway Rivals	Mandala
1983	Scotland Yard
1982	Enchanted Forest
1981	Focus
1980	Rummikub
1979	Hare and Tortoise

2018-10-30

Board game makers

Interested of making your own game? These producers can help you. So far we have only tried Offason. More makers will be added in the future.

Board Games Maker, Hong Kong/China (no minimum order!)
www.boardgamesmaker.com

Cartamundi, Belgium
www.cartamundi.se

Fabryka Kart, Poland
www.fabryka-kart.eu

Grand Prix International, USA
www.grandprixintl.com

Long Pack Games, China
www.longpackgames.com

Ludo Fact, Germany
www.ludofact.de

NIngbo Lijia Industry, China
www.cnlijia.cn

Offason, Sweden
www.offason.se

Panda Game Manufacturing, China
www.pandagm.com

QPC Games, USA
www.qpcgames.com

Shuffled Ink, USA
www.shuffledink.com

Starry Games, Hong Kong/China
www.starrygames.com

The Ace Card Company, India
www.allplayingcards.com

But does choosing China-based producers make you a supporter of communism and oppression?

2018-10-29

Welcome to MGIG

Welcome to a new site for MGIG (Mygrandmotherisgone). This will be much easier to update, using Blogger and not html.

This page will be mostly in English so that lots of people can use it. However, texts about books in Swedish will be in the original language.

Välkommen till en ny hemsida för MGIG. Denna kommer vara mycket enklare att uppdatera med hjälp av Blogger och inte vanlig gammal html.

Hemsidan kommer vara mest på engelska för att nå så många personer som möjligt. Texter om böcker på svenska kommer dock fortsatt vara på det svenska språket.

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