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Shenandoah: Daughter of the Stars, a shoot-’em-up made by four Swedish teenagers, was just about finished and ready for a release on the Amiga in 1993. Then the project collapsed, and its developers split up. Now, nearly 23 years later, the game has been reborn as 1993 Space Machine, and it is launched on Steam for Mac and Windows PC.

In a world where remakes and retro-styled entertainment are in vogue, 1993 is both oddly pertinent and refreshingly sincere. It’s not a cash-in on an old hit or a modern game made to look old to court nostalgia. It is old. It was designed for the limitations of computers 20 years ago in an age when most developers had few if any tools to simplify their workflow.

Screenshot from the game 1993 Space Machine
Screenshot from the game 1993 Space Machine showing the menu
Credits: Krister Karlsson, Patrik Andersson, Gunnar Johansson, Douglas Kalberg, Mattias Hjalmarsson and other wonderful contributors