Hirvee

Hirvee is a small DOS game from the Finnish home-computer scene about which virtually nothing has survived — no known author, no release year, just a program that once made the rounds on Finnish BBSes. The only clue is the name itself: "hirvee" is colloquial Finnish for "hirveä", meaning "terrible" or "awful", which in games of this kind was usually the author's self-deprecating joke rather than a warning to the player.

Anonymous little one-offs like this are typical of the Finnish scene of the 1990s. Hobbyists wrote them to amuse their friends, gave them away for free, and as a result they almost never reached the big international archives. The easiest way to find out what Hirvee actually offers is to try it yourself — the game runs right in your browser on OldGame.cz.