Palm Studios

Company Owner
Rick Palm

Age: ???

Position: Founder

Location
Stockholm

Sweden

Company History
Palm Studios opened its doors in Stockholm Sweden on 12/1/1985. Rick Palm studied programming at the University of Stockholm for 3 years, after which he worked for the truck manufacturer Scania where he programmed industry computers and their assembly line robots. However Rick had always had a creative side and when he saw some news about the consoles that were being created over at the other side of the Atlantic he decided to give it a try.

Rick started to work on his very first game before he even created his company. This was at the same time he still worked for Scania, however he managed to get enough funds to start his own company.

The company HQ was in the middle of Stockholm and was in an apartment Rick rented for the purpose of the company. It was there where his real first Project started behind closed doors.

And They Came!
'And They Came! was a text based strategy game where you control Earth's defenses against an impending alien invasion.

You managed the funding, research and workforce of the army and loadouts. The game itself progressed from the year 1984. The story part was mostly newspaper articles about various events that unfolded depending on what the player chose to do in the events that came. It had 3 endings that the player could get.

And They Came! was developed for the PC, but Rick Palm had sent out interest letters to the major console manufacturers with a demo-version on a floppy disk in hopes to catch their attention. The game was eventually ported to the Gamewagon.