<p>Today on Hacker Public Radio, we will talk about old games, and interview an expert from Sweden.</p>
 <h3>"GamingGrannar" and "Spelklassiker Musik"</h3>
 <p>In 2012, the Swedish gaming community "Level 7" voted for the blog Gaminggrannar to become "Gaming Blog of the year". Gaminggrannar (or "Gaming Neighbours") consists of David "Dave" Bostr&ouml;m, Emelie "Ekken" Karlsson and Andreas "hiro" Karlsson.</p>
 <p>Dave won the Swedish Championship in Nintendo, in 2003, and has a great Metroid collection. Ekken is an acomplished gamer, creates edible game cakes and also has a newly started collection of games with pink cartridges. hiro can be recognized by his retro game inspired tatoos, and is known for his love for series like Mega Man X and Castlevania.</p>
 <p>Together the three neighbours release a video blog about everything and anything gaming related, but often with a focus on older games.</p>
 <p>The podcast that hiro hosts together with Tobias Jensen, a NES and Amiga 500 gamer who wished he had more time for games, hit the 200th episode in november 2013.</p>
 <h3>Retrospelsm&auml;ssan</h3>
 <p>hiro and I met at Retrospelsm&auml;ssan 2013. This retro game convention is on its fourth year, and has grown considerably. Now in the second largest exhibition hall in Gothenburg, with roughly 2.000 visitors, and a three hour queue to get in. Competitions in old games, buy retrogames and consoles, cosplay competition, and so on. "Retrospelsm&auml;ssan is a yearly event with focus on consoles and computers that was released before the year 2000." -- Markus Swerlander, one of the organisers.</p>
 <p>The date for the 2014 edition of Retrospelsm&auml;ssan is already set, saturday the 3rd of may in Eriksbergshallen, Gothenburg.</p>
 <p><em>"Game and have fun!"</em><br /> -- hiro</p>
 <h3>Stuff referenced in the episode</h3>
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  <li>Gaminggrannar (Gaming Neighbours): <a href="https://gaminggrannar.se/">https://gaminggrannar.se/</a> [Swedish], Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/gaminggrannar">@GamingGrannar</a></li>
  <li>Andreas "hiro" Karlsson, Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/grannen_hiro">@grannen_hiro</a></li>
  <li>David "Dave" Bostr&ouml;m</li>
  <li>Emelie "Ekken" Karlsson</li>
  <li>"&Aring;rets Spelblogg 2012" (Swedish Gaming blog of the year): <a href="https://level7.nu/texter/read.php?id=217627">https://level7.nu/texter/read.php?id=217627</a> [Swedish]</li>
  <li>Streetfighter Workout Video: <a href="https://youtu.be/ybYFKRgC07U">https://youtu.be/ybYFKRgC07U</a></li>
  <li>Spelklassiker Musik (Classical Gaming Music): <a href="https://radiospeltorsk.se/spelklassiker/">https://radiospeltorsk.se/spelklassiker/</a> [Swedish]</li>
  <li>Retrospelsm&auml;ssan (Retrogame convention): <a href="https://www.retrospelsmassan.se/">https://www.retrospelsmassan.se/</a> [Swedish], Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/rsmgbg">@RSMGBG</a></li>
  <li>"Super Mario Beads @ Retrospelsm&auml;ssan 2013": <a href="https://youtu.be/jc3gC8xaaGs">https://youtu.be/jc3gC8xaaGs</a></li>
  <li>Retrode: <a href="https://www.retrode.org/">https://www.retrode.org/</a></li>
  <li>PowerPak: <a href="https://www.retrousb.com/product_info.php?products_id=34">https://www.retrousb.com/product_info.php?products_id=34</a></li>
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