''Space Action'' is a horizontally scrolling shooter created for the

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by Arne Fernlund. The game took three months to develop and was distributed on cartridge by the Swedish company Handic. More than 10,000 copies were sold world-wide. The game became popular in Italy, where about 7,000 of the copies were sold, and was also a minor success in

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Legacy

''Space Action'' made an appearance at an exhibition that the Swedish National Museum of Science and Technology held in 2008. Fernlund did some work on a sequel, ''Space Action 2'', but it was never completed. The history behind Fernlund creating ''Space Action'' was featured in the Swedish documentary "Det svenska spelundret" (eng. "The Swedish gaming wonder").

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''Space Action''
at Gamebase 64 1983 video games Horizontally scrolling shooters Commodore 64 games Commodore 64-only games Video games developed in Sweden