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What is this Nostalgiapelit?
Nostalgiapelit is a non-commercial and totally ad-free flash game site. The games are remakes of nostalgic slot and amusement machines from past decades. In Finland the old slot machines are rare because they were demolished or ripped to parts after use because gambling laws. Most of machines were made in Finland or were made only for the Finnish market and cannot be found elsewhere. There are also games like the coin flicking game called “pajatso” which was a significant part of Finnish gambling history and still is. The people like to remember the old good times but those machines do not exist anymore in pubs, shops and gas stations for example. That is why we decided to make simulated versions.
Who are you?
We are three freelancers who found each other from the Internet. We decided to make games as a hobby. Graphics are drawn by Juha, music is composed by me and Roy make’s all this into a working game.
Why do you make these games?
This is just our hobby. The first game called “Viidenkymmenen pennin pajatso” – the traditional Finnish coin-flicking slot machine was made only for our relatives and friends but the success of the game encouraged us to make the game public for all people.
Ok. Sounds fun. Is this site popular?
Yes it is. There were over one million unique visitors only in two months and over two million after couple of months. Most visitors came from Finland (country of five million citizens) and that is a great result for a small Finnish non-commercial site. According to TNS-Metrix we were better than the news portal of second largest newspaper in Finland with 37000 unique visitors per day. Now the site has some thousand visitors per day but the average visit time in the site is increasing every month thanks to our new titles.
There have been numerous articles in various local and international newspapers, magazines and blogs like Helsingin Sanomat which is the biggest daily subscription-based newspaper in Scandinavia and popular casual game play blog jayisgames.com just to name few. There have been a few inserts in Finnish gaming and web related TV programs also.
