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Month: October 2023

Press Coverage – Codemasters Is Launched! – Popular Computing Weekly, 18th September 1986

16 October 2023 Anthony Guter 0

Codemasters is announced. In this article, in Popular Computing Weekly, 18 September 1986, there is a fallacious statement about AI Products Ltd. This company (for […]

Press Coverage – Ariolasoft Becomes UK SEGA Distributor? – Popular Computing Weekly, 11th September 1986

16 October 2023 Anthony Guter 0

The Sega Master System was on sale in the US and Japan but had yet to reach Europe when PCW, on 11 September 1986, reported […]

Press Coverage – Mastertronic Launches The Magnum Joystick – Popular Computing Weekly, 14th August 1986

16 October 2023 Anthony Guter 0

Mastertronic sold its own joystick – the Magnum – for a brief period. It clicked a bit but was effective and the pistol grip distinguished […]

Press Coverage – Amstrad User Visits Mastertronic – August 1986

16 October 2023 Anthony Guter 0

This major article in Amstrad User, August 1986, captures Mastertronic in highly confident mood. The distractions of full-price software, increasing competition in the budget market […]

Gaplus Title Screen

Game Review: Gaplus (Commodore 64, Mastertronic)

16 October 2023 Simon Plumbe 0

Being a budget publisher, one of the things that you wouldn’t expect from Mastertronic was licensed titles. Yet that’s what they released when a limited […]

Press Coverage – Industry Hit With Shortage Of Programmers – Popular Computing Weekly, 10 July 1986

7 October 2023 Anthony Guter 0

A brief review of the more serious home-computer magazines in 1986 provides many examples of software houses advertising for programmers or games to be submitted. […]

Press Coverage – More Rumours About Mastertronic On The Stock Market – Sinclair User, 19 July 1986

7 October 2023 Anthony Guter 0

As with the PCW story, there was little real news behind this story and nothing came of it. Nor was there to be a range […]

Press Coverage – Games For 99p? – Popular Computing Weekly, 19 June 1986

7 October 2023 Anthony Guter 0

Two news items in Popular Computing Weekly, 19 June 1986, of passing interest. Being “Out-Mastertroniced” by a competitor selling games at a RRP of 99p […]

Press Coverage – Mastertronic Stock Market Floatation? – Popular Computing Weekly, 29 May 1986

6 October 2023 Anthony Guter 0

Rumours about Mastertronics grand financial strategy surfaced from time to time, as in this news item in Popular Computing Weekly, 29 May 1986. The idea […]

Press Coverage – Special Feature On Mastertronic – Amstrad Action, April 1986

6 October 2023 Anthony Guter 0

Amstrad Action, then a relatively new publication, produced this major feature on Mastertronic in April 1986. The “Mastertronic Team” pictured below is Colin Johnson, our […]

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