Press Coverage – Tronix Budget Label Launched – 1991
A few months after Virgin Mastertronic divested its Sega distribution business back to Sega Japan, in the summer of 1991, the company rebranded budget games […]
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Press Coverage – ACE Names 50 Most Influential People In Games Industry – ACE, July 1991
Who were the most influential people in the UK games industry in 1991? ACE ran a feature split over many pages in its July issue […]
Press Coverage – Special Feature On The Growth Of Budget Games – Crash, October 1987
In October 1987 Crash devoted two pages to a feature on budget games, against the background that more than half of the games sold in […]
Mastertronic Collectors Archive website celebrates its First Birthday!
Well, it’s hard to believe it, but today we’re celebrating the one year anniversary since we officially launched the Mastertronic Collectors Archives! Over the last […]
Press Coverage – 16 Blitz In Depth Look – Your Commodore, December 1989
Your Commodore followed on from Amiga Format’s feature on the launch of 16 blitz a month later, in December 1989. The changing priorities of the […]
Press Coverage – 16 Blitz Range Is Launched – Amiga Format, November 1989
Wearing suits considerably smarter than they normally donned for a day at the office, budget manager Andrew Wright is flanked by Frank Herman and Alan […]
Press Coverage – New Budget Rivals Arrive – Popular Computing Weekly, August 1989
Plenty of competitors continued to pop out of the woodwork. And it’s that man again – Richard Bielby is amongst them. Popular Computing Weekly 3rd […]
Press Coverage – Magnum Light Gun – Sinclair User, August 1989
Following our venture into accessory manufacturing with the Magnum Joystick, we then marketed and distributed the Magnum Lightgun. This spread in Sinclair User, August 1989, […]
Press Coverage – Mastertronic… The T-Shirt? – Crash, August 1989
An aggresive new image as the company started moving away from the old Mastertronic styling. I had one of these T-shirts and very good for […]
Game Review: Munch Mania (Commodore 64, Mastertronic)
It’s no secret that Mastertronic sought “inspiration” from the arcades for many of their early releases. Like so many other publishers at the time, copyrights […]