Game Review: Silkworm (Amiga, Virgin Mastertronic)
While Mastertronic may have dabbled with arcade licenses on their own with the likes of Double Dragon and Gaplus, joining forces with Virgin opened up […]
Month: February 2025
Game Review: Finders Keepers (Commodore 64, Mastertronic)
The Commodore 64 version of Finders Keepers does do its best to follow the plot of the Spectrum original at least. As Magic Knight, you […]
Mastertronic Collectors Archive Weekly Digest – 11th February 2025
It’s been a week of updates all round as we’ve spent time doing extra research and working through our files and we’ve updated and expanded […]
Game Review: The Incredible Shrinking Fireman (ZX Spectrum, Mastertronic)
Collect, Click and Select The Incredible Shrinking Fireman involves picking up items with the aim of obtaining the five parts of the stretching rack and […]
Game Review: Kikstart (Commodore 128, Mastertronic)
After the initial success of Kikstart on the Commodore 64, and with the very different but fun Commodore 16 and Plus/4 version, it was a […]
Game Review: Psycho Shopper (Vic 20, Mastertronic)
Whoever thought going to the shops could be so dangerous? Well Mastertronic obviously did when they released Psycho Shopper for the Vic 20. This strange […]
Game Review: The Curse of Sherwood, (ZX Spectrum, Mastertronic)
Setting The Scene with a Blood-Stained Parchment When reading the inlay instructions for the game, it is clear from the outset that Sherwood Forest has […]
Press Coverage – Submitting Games To Mastertronic – Sinclair User, August 1985
A very well written article in Sinclair User August 1985 which unusually looks at the business side of games development and publishing. It includes quotes […]
Mastertronic Collectors Archive Weekly Digest – 4th February 2025
This last week has been the most significant ever for us here since we launched the Mastertronic Collectors Archive website. While it’s been fairly quiet […]
Game Review: Finders Keepers (Commodore 16 and Plus/4, Mastertronic)
After the success of Finders Keepers with the original Spectrum version and conversions such as the Commodore 64, the Commodore 16 and Plus/4 version appeared […]