Mastertronic Collectors Archive

Nintendo and SEGA have both been extremely successful in not only building brands around their consoles, but in managing to create iconic characters that people […]

Tenpin bowling to this day is something I still enjoy, especially if I get a few friends together and have good couple of matches over […]

Sport of Kings started life on the ZX Spectrum, with that version programmed by Jeff Calder. It was also a first-generation MAD release with the […]

Setting up the Game After choosing whether to use the joystick or keyboard, you get to choose whether you want to read the instructions.  After […]

Olympic Skier was first released by Mr Chip Software, and back then had proved to be a hit with reviewers, with its three sections working […]

Regular site visitors will have seen some of our other themed weeks by now including our Horror and Football weeks that we’re run in the […]

We had a quiet week here at the Mastertronic Collectors Archive last week so we didn’t get to post a great deal of content, hence […]

Several Commodore 64 Mastertronic games had some outstanding soundtracks that graced the SID chip, from the likes of Rob Hubbard, David Whittaker, Jeroen Tel, and […]

I’ve always been fond of text adventures and once I started my journey into home computing, it was the first genre I delved into thanks […]

Quick Thinking was first released by Mirrorsoft back in 1983 across several systems including the ZX Spectrum and BBC Micro / Acorn Electron, as well […]