Tobias Bjarneby

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Tobias Bjarneby
Born30 March 1974 (1974-03-30) (age 51)
Stockholm, Sweden
NationalitySwedish
OccupationMagazine writer
Years active1990–

Tobias Bjarneby (born 30 March 1974 in Stockholm) is one of Sweden's most noted video game magazine writers. [1] [2] He was the editor in chief of Super POWER magazine (renamed Super Play in 1996) from 1993 to December 2004 and has also written for Aftonbladet . Earlier, he worked for Nintendomagasinet. Currently he is the editor in chief of Level. He has advocated for public acceptance of gaming as a fashionable lifestyle rather than a geek activity.

He also wrote and directed the indie video game 198X , which was released in June, 2019. 198X features a collection of retro arcade-style minigames inside a nostalgic coming of age narrative. [3] [4] [5]

References

  1. Bjarneby: "Det är surrealistiskt att läsa Super Play" Archived 2011-07-24 at the Wayback Machine , Level 7, 2006-05-31 (in Swedish)
  2. Tobias Bjarneby - Sveriges snällaste spelskribent, Pixelmagasi.net, accessed 2010-05-25 (in Swedish)
  3. "198X". Kickstarter. Retrieved 2020-02-09.
  4. "198X Review". GameSpot. Retrieved 2020-02-09.
  5. Parkin, Simon (2019-07-07). "198X review – discover your inner Kid". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 2020-02-09.