Merchandise – Virgin Mastertronic Christmas 1989 Wine Bottle!
Christmas 1989. Every member of staff at Virgin Mastertronic received a bottle of wine with the attached label. Don’t go looking for the exclusive Maison […]
Month: September 2023
Press Coverage – Tronix Club is launched – Home Computing Weekly, 21 July 1985
The Tronix Club is born. This ad in Home Computing Weekly, 21 July 1985 promised a lot and at least one satisfied customer responded, in […]
Press Coverage – Action Biker teased – Sinclair User, July 1985
This appeared in the light-hearted “Gremlin” column, Sinclair User July 1985, hence the spoof nature of the article. It was nonetheless a little naughty to […]
Press Coverage – Locomotion Review, Popular Computing Weekly – 2nd May 1985
In this review of Locomotion, in Popular Computing Weekly 2nd May 1985, the comments about Mastertronic show the difficulty the games industry had in coming […]
Press Coverage – Mastertronic Advertising in Germany – 1985
Our distributor in Germany was John Kellas, based in Soest, Westphalia. He did his own thing when it came to publicity.
Press Coverage – Mastertronic Inc Adverts April 1985
This news snippet was in American magazine Ahoy, April 1985 and it heralds the start of the manufacturing of Mastertronic disks in the USA. The […]
Game Review: King Tut (Vic 20, Mastertronic)
Astonishingly, even though memory expansions were readily available for the Vic 20, only two Mastertronic titles required them. Commercially it made sense, allowing their games […]
The Two Faces of Martin Alper
Of Mastertronic’s original four directors, Martin Alper stood out as being the one with the marketing flair, the big creative ideas, the personality that inspired […]
Mastertronic Collectors Archive Weekly Digest – 10th September 2023
Another week has passed here at the Mastertronic Collectors Archive. We’ve been busy working behind the scenes as well as creating plenty o new content, […]
Vic 20 Mastertronic Checklist
The Vic 20 was one of the formats supported by Mastertronic right from the start. Many of the early systems received support right until the […]