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Liero is part of the Finnish shareware game scene that lasted from early 90s to mid 00s [1]. These games are super nostalgic for me and a lot of other tech minded Finns of my age!

[1] https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luettelo_suomalaisista_sharewa...

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Happy to see my own game “Oikeutta Eläimille” in this list.

I made it in turbo pascal in about 1 week, uploaded it to a BBS and it started to spread. Then pretty soon I saw it mentioned on TV and that totally blew my 16 year old mind.

I can make something and the world will react to what I make? Cool!

This is what got me interested in this gig in the first place. I am still yet to create something the world will react to, but whatever, I am enjoying the journey anyways

Liero dominated my high school computer lab in Sydney, Australia. Such great times. Still adore this game.

We played it in Canada in programming class as well.

Los Angeles, same.

Very cool to see such a list maintained. The PaybackTime 2 is still playable, albeit without sampled sounds (crashes the emulator), here: http://rflxn.com/paybacktime2/

Not just Finland, Liero was big in Estonia, too! I remember I got Liero on a floppy disk from a friend early 00's and ran it on my Win98. Good ol' days. Terep2 was another great game.

It was played in Norway too.

My younger brothers played it a lot.

Sweden as well, me and my friends played it frequently to distract ourselves in CS class.

What school did you go to? We played this _a lot_ at Norra Real, Stockholm XD

I’m (not parent) from a small town in Västra Götaland (Sweden) and we played it a lot as well :)

Brazil too. Used to play this with family and friends, especially one of my cousins. Also played it quite a few times with friends in computer classes. Everyone could play using the same keyboard at the same time, it was crazy.

It was a hit in our Czech school as well. Son of a diplomat posted in Finland brought it back here.

Wait a minute, that sounds like an old friend of mine. Were his initials ŠP?

My favorites in the Finnish scene were the cave shooters (luolalentely). Games such as Auts or V-Wing. Are there any modern games available in this genre?

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