January 2026 - Mastertronic Collectors Archive

Game Review: Rockford – The Arcade Game (Commodore 64, Mastertronic)

26 January 2026 Warren Pilkington 0

Rockford: The Arcade Game was a conversion of the Arcadia Systems arcade game, where the systems were based on Amiga boards and used that hardware […]

Mastertronic Collectors Archive Weekly Digest – 25th January 2026

25 January 2026 Simon Plumbe 0

The excitement of our recent football special is over so it’s time to get things back to some sense of normality here at the Mastertronic […]

Game Review: Kane (ZX Spectrum, Mastertronic)

22 January 2026 Brian Kemp 0

Cowboys and Indians You play as the sheriff who wishes to make peace with the Indians. You must travel over four levels, shooting birds down […]

Game Review: Back To Reality (Commodore 64, Mastertronic)

19 January 2026 Warren Pilkington 0

Back To Reality tries to set the tone for you being alone and isolated in space, and indeed the lengthy plot on the inlay of […]

My Top 5 Vic 20 Mastertronic Games

17 January 2026 Simon Plumbe 0

Even though I’d been a gamer since the mid-70s starting off with one of the early Pong clones and then moving onto LCD and tabletop […]

Game Review: Gnasher (ZX Spectrum, Mastertronic)

17 January 2026 Brian Kemp 0

Yes, it’s a Pacman clone! On the front cover of the cassette inlay, there is a rather angry (and squarish) yellow character with very sharp […]

Game Review: Roller Kong (Commodore 16 and Plus/4, Melbourne House)

13 January 2026 Warren Pilkington 0

Melbourne House established themselves for the Commodore 16 and Plus/4 system with a string of releases early in the machine’s life. This did give them […]