Press Coverage – Home Computing Weekly, 22nd May 1984
Home Computing Weekly, 22 May 1984, reported on the growing interest in budget software. The really fascinating nugget in this piece is the reference to […]
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Press Coverage – Computer and Video Games, May 1984
Imagine’s financial problems, amidst general gloom about the quantity of unsold software after Xmas 1983, forced them to cut prices. The trade, as represented by […]
Press Coverage: Home Computing Weekly – 8th May 1984
Home Computing Weekly, 8 May 1984, followed up on its story a month before, about the launch of Mastertronic, with a correction. If there had […]
Press Coverage – Personal Computer News, 14th April 1984
Personal Computer News, a weekly magazine, noticed a newcomer to the games scene, on 14 April 1984. As was often to be the case, Nick […]
Press Coverage – Micromart July 2016
Some nostalgia in the pages of MicroMart, July 2016.
Ricochet Game Checklist
Ricochet was the first budget re-release label to be launched by Mastertronic. It featured games licensed primarily from Martech, Activision, and Melbourne House. Updated: 2nd […]
Game Review: Bullseye (Spectrum, Mastertronic)
Mastertronic burst onto the scene in April 1984, revolutionising both where we could buy our games, and how much (or how little!) we had to […]
Mastertronic Collectors Archive – Introduction
Welcome to the Mastertronic Collectors Archive. This brand new website is dedicated to all things Mastertronic – the 1980s video games website, launched in 1984. […]
Press Coverage – Mastertronic Group Closes – November 2015
Not exactly a press cutting. This is what popped up when I visited the Mastertronic.Com website just to see if there was anything new. A […]
Game Review: Impossible Mission (C64, Ricochet)
The Commodore 64 was still in its formative years in 1984. Developers were still getting to grips with the hardware, both in terms of its […]