November 2024 - Mastertronic Collectors Archive

Game Review: The Exploits of Fingers Malone (Commodore 16 and Plus/4, Mastertronic)

28 November 2024 Warren Pilkington 1

The Exploits of Fingers Malone (which I shall refer to by its shortened name of Fingers Malone for the remainder of this review) is the […]

Game Review: Phantom Attack (Vic 20, Mastertronic)

27 November 2024 Simon Plumbe 1

During the early stages of establishing the company, Mastertronic focused on licensing most of their games from other publishers. In the case of the Commodore […]

Game Review: Kikstart (Commodore 64, Mastertronic)

23 November 2024 Warren Pilkington 0

Kikstart started out being released by Mr Chip Software themselves back in 1984, with Mastertronic’s re-release the year after with the subheading of “Off Road […]

Game Review: The Caves Of Doom (Amstrad, Mastertronic)

22 November 2024 Patrick Furlong 0

A First For Me… The Caves of Doom marks a significant moment with the CPC for me as it was one of the first two […]

Game Review: Megabolts (Commodore 16 and Plus/4, Mastertronic)

21 November 2024 Warren Pilkington 0

Megabolts is a Mr Chip Software game, but unlike most of their releases, not programmed by Shaun Southern or Tony Kelly, but Stuart Cross, with […]

Game Review: Loco-Motion (ZX Spectrum, Mastertronic)

20 November 2024 Brian Kemp 1

Full Steam Ahead! Your locomotive always departs from the bottom-right area of the screen. Along the bottom and left-hand side of the screen, track is […]

Game Review: Pigs in Space (Commodore 64, Mastertronic)

19 November 2024 Warren Pilkington 0

Pigs in Space was one of a series of games made with The Games Creator, but had up to three releases. The original release was […]

Mastertronic Collectors Archive Weekly Digest – 17th November 2024

17 November 2024 Simon Plumbe 0

It’s been quite a special week for us at the Mastertronic Collectors Archive as we’ve been able to bring all of you our first ever […]

Game Review: Game Ninja (Amstrad, Entertainment USA)

17 November 2024 Patrick Furlong 2

Porting Games from the Americans Mastertronic were known for bringing games coded in the USA for the Commodore 64 and Atari 8-bit line of computers […]