Game Review: Street Olympics (Commodore 16 and Plus/4, Mastertronic)
Joystick waggling games in the vein of the arcade game Track and Field have always been a popular theme, with athletics being a much bigger […]
Month: May 2024
Game Review: Transformers – Battle To Save The Earth (Commodore 64, Mastertronic)
With the size of the franchise today, you’d expect to see Transformers video games released for every major platform on a regular basis. But that […]
Game Review: Jet Pac (ZX Spectrum, Ricochet)
Unlike many I didn’t start with consoles or computers – instead it was one of the old Pong clones in the 70s. Moving on from […]
Game Review: Mr Puniverse (Commodore 16 and Plus/4, Mastertronic)
The sequel to Big Mac – The Mad Maintenance Man only appeared on the Commodore 16 and Plus/4, and in the blurb Mastertronic seemed to […]
Press Coverage – Mastertronic secures Double Dragon licence – Sinclair User, February 1988
Sinclair User, February 1988, picked up on the Double Dragon licence deal first reported by PCW. I’m not sure what “cutting out the middle men” […]
Press Coverage – SEGA Master System advert in Zzap 64?! – Zzap 64, February 1988
Sales of Sega consoles took off in 1988 and Mastertronic began serious advertising campaigns. This one was in Zzap64, February 1988 – interesting in that […]
Press Coverage – Mastertronic sponsors full price games chart – Sinclair User, January 1988
Strange ad from Woolworths (remember them?) in Sinclair User, January 1988. They list only full-price games but name and picture Sega, and have the Mastertronic […]
Press Coverage – More talk on Virgin buying into Mastertronic – Your Computer, January 1988
Your Computer, January 1988, focused on the attractions to Virgin of buying into Mastertronic (though the Sega connection passed them by).
Press Coverage – Virgin buys Mastertronic… again? – ACE, January 1988
Virgin bought a 45% stake in Mastertronic in the summer of 1987. It seemed to take a long time for some to get the news. […]
Press Coverage – Rockford unveiled as first game from new-look Melbourne House – ACE, January 1988
The first fruits of the Arcadia project began to hit the shops. A fresh look for Melbourne House as well. Pity the game was so […]