Det verkar som att vi svenskar har erövrat internetet eller något, eftersom vart jag än tittar så ser jag svenskar eller andra personer från Norden, speciellt på multiplayer spel (kan bero på att jag lägger märke till just dem och filtrerar ut allting annat men ändå).

Tror att folk tycker att det är en smula ohyffsat om vi fortsätter att tala svenska här ;)

Sweden has for a long time been a leading country when it comes to just computers & internet. We had the worlds highest computer density in the entire world for several years (though I don't know if this is still the case), and were also one of the first countries to really focus on giving the vast majority of the population access to broadband (the so called "Bredband för all" initiative), that is why there are Swedes everywhere (and our neighbors were also quite early when it came to building out the infrastructure needed to support widespread broadband)

Alright, as I'm not getting any more guesses, I'm closing this in roughly 4h. If you think you know any of these games, then send in your guesses!

And that is that! Only a few people had the courage to even enter, and out of those only two managed to guess the correct games.
Astroglobular guessed Hero Core for game 4 & DProject guessed MER Innebandy for game 1, which were both correct.

So for those interested, here are the games & clues:
1: MER innebandy: The worlds only commercially released floorball game, and a game that was released as a marketing tool for the Coca Cola company, to sell MER, a soft drink with fruit flavour (hence the coca cola bottles & orange cat). It seem to have a small fan community in the Czech republic, but apart from that, there is very little to be found on the net about this game. The game was Unique Development Studios' (of Ignition fame) first game, and it was not a good one. Clumsy controls, poor adherence to the actual rules and ugly graphics (even for its time, it was released in 97) made this one a game best forgotten.

2: Deo Gratias: This is one of the many creature types that you can create in Deo Gratias. I posted screenshots from this game in the "What is this game?" thread a while ago, one of which showed another creature on the same screen. The hints shows "God" and a french telephone (to hint at one of the developers of this game, France Télécom Multimédia). This game is of no real historical significance and is probably best forgotten.

3: SL the game: This was a pretty unfair one. This game was made as a form of educational game by SL (Storstockholms Lokaltrafik) and the marketing company Nord & Syd Virtua, and they gave it away to a lot of elementary schools in and around Stockholm (I don't know if mine got any, but we were still running Win 3.1 back in 97/98, so our computers could probably not run the game anyway). Because of this initiative, the game received a very short lived international fame, before it was forgotten again. Outside of educational circles and people who collect old edutainment games, this game is almost entirely unknown. It was not actually a bad game though, imagine a simplified and very primitive Cities in Motion meets the buldozer function in Sim City, and you have a decent idea of what this game is about, managing public transportation, and wanton destruction of private property (for some strange reason, the game never punished you for wanting to pave the entire city, as long as you did not touch any historical landmarks). The game relatively accurately portrays Stockholm as it looked in 1997, including the state of the public transportation, and it was probably released in 98 (though wikipedia says 97).
The screenshot shows Stockholm's Olympic stadium, as does the hint (to shows that this is in fact a game based on a real city). The buss is one owned by SL.

4: Hero Core: This is a pretty good free title, that I would recommend that you all check out. The screenshot in question shows the first enemy of the game, and some of the environment around it. The game plays a bit like a mix between Section Z (hint shows the box art from the NES release of that game) and Metroid, with almost GameBoy-like graphics


And random.org has decided that Austrobogulator will get to pick a game!

Bah, unlucky this time. Well, one cannot always be victorious :) Thanks for the giveaway, it really strained my poor brain.

You had a 50% chance of winning that one. Anyway, I'm just about to post my next giveaway, so stay tuned!

Yay! Thanks. Also, Hero Core is an awesome game ^__^ I remember playing the shit out of it when it was released.

Runespell Overture seems interesting.

Edit: Also, congrats to DProject for being able to identify a crazy obscure game :P

Props to the Austrobogulator and DProject for actually knowing one of them!

Thanks for the contest AFnord, even if it was extremely difficult. :)