Game Review: Oblido (Commodore 16 and Plus/4, Mastertronic)
Oblido is certainly one of those games that may sound obscure, and indeed it was only ever released for the Commodore 16 and Plus/4. The […]
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Press Coverage – Mastertronic Acquires Double Dragon License – Popular Computing Weekly, 31st December 1987
Birth of what was to be a highly successful arcade tie-in. Double Dragon was a smash hit both in full price and budget versions. The […]
Press Coverage – SEGA Master System Success! – Popular Computing Weekly, 31st December 1987
Popular Computing Weekly, 31 Dec 1987, is happy to publish a press briefing about the first year of Sega Master System sales. What Rachel Davies […]
Press Coverage – Games Chart Advertisement – Popular Computing Weekly, 17th December 1987
Mastertronic was infamous in the magazine world for not advertising. But the price we paid was reduced editorial coverage. Sales Director Alan Sharam believed that […]
Press Coverage – Review Disparity Between Budget And Full-Price Games – Zzap 64, December 1987
A fierce controversy in the letters pages of Zzap 64, in December 1987, about the amount of space given to budget software produced a remarkable […]
Game Review: Duck Shoot (Vic 20, Mastertronic)
One of the very first releases from Mastertronic, Duck Shoot, gave a good indication of what many of their early games were going to be […]
Game Review: P.O.D. Proof of Destruction (Commodore 64, Mastertronic)
P.O.D. (known as Proof of Destruction) does not pretend to have any fancy storyline or anything like that, and the back inlay blurb and instructions […]
Game Review: P.O.D. Proof of Destruction (Commodore 16 and Plus/4, Mastertronic)
P.O.D. (known as Proof of Destruction) does not pretend to have any fancy storyline or anything like that, and the back inlay blurb and instructions […]
A Mastertronic Range To Get MAD About…
Unlike most budget publishers, Mastertronic were known to have countless sub-labels. While Ricochet existed solely for re-releases and Rack-It was established to support fellow publisher […]
Game Review: Wizards Pet (Commodore 64, MAD)
Wizards Pet (or The Wizards Pet as the title screen says, in both cases without the use of the apostrophe) is a game where you, […]