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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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” […]