Game Review: Make Music With Mistertronic (Commodore 64, Mastertronic)
Mastertronic attempted to use the Mistertronic character, clearly a robot but with a human face, to make their educational range more accessible to younger children, […]
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Press Coverage – Mastertronic finally starts to book advertising! – ACE, July 1989
A significant change in policy about advertising is evident in this ad, placed in ACE in July 1989 and clearly bearing the fingerprints of recently […]
Press Coverage – Mastertronic Light Gun announced – ACE, June 1989
ACE, June 1989, previewed the Mastertronic Light Gun which appeared later that year. The bundling of a piece of hardware with budget software was a […]
Press Coverage – Just what IS Continental Circus? – Sinclair User, January 1989
Sinclair User published their highlights (and lowlights) of the year in the January 1989 issue. Should this Virgin release have been titled ‘Continental Circuit?’ As […]
Press Coverage – Mastertronic announces first PC games – Sinclair User, December 1988
Sinclair User, December 1988, features our range of games for the PC in its slightly spoof but actually reality based “True Stories” regular feature. The […]
Press Coverage – PCW Show Exhibition Behind The Scenes – The Games Machine, October 1988
Rachel Davies joined from Melbourne House and relished her role as Marketing Manager for Virgin Mastertronic. Here, in a supplement created by publisher Newsfield for […]
Press Coverage – Mastertronic staff join rival at Prism – ACE, September 1988
John Maxwell was the man who reviewed and judged all the games received at Mastertronic from 1984 until the summer of 1986 when he ws […]
Game Review: Starforce Nova (Commodore 64, Mastertronic)
Starforce Nova (or Star Force Nova as on the title screen) – just like the Commodore 16 and Plus/4 version, has a thinly veiled plot […]
Commodore 64 Mastertronic Checklist
The Commodore 64 was the single biggest format covered by Mastertronic with games released on cassette and disk both in Europe and through their American […]
Game Review: Starforce Nova (Commodore 16 and Plus/4, Mastertronic)
Starforce Nova (or Star Force Nova as on the title screen) has a thinly veiled plot about being in the year 5112, and forced to […]