Press Coverage – A Closer Look At Codemasters – Amstrad Action, September 1988
Amstrad Action had a major feature on Codemasters in the September 1988 issue. The first extract below mentions the early history of their involvement with […]
Articles by Anthony Guter
Press Coverage – Mastertronic Relaunced – PC Gameworld, August 2003
PC Gameworld picks up on the relaunch of Mastertronic, several years after the company ceased trading.
Press Coverage – Richard Branson Talks About The Mastertronic Acquisition
The growth of the Sega part of Mastertronic’s business, the partial acquisition by Virgin in 1987, full control in 1988 and the sale of the […]
Press Coverage – Amiga Format Arcade Shoot-Em-Up Retrospective – Amiga Format, 1993
Amiga Format published a special issue in 1993 (actual date not known) looking back on the Amiga gaming scene. It included this feature on our […]
Press Coverage – Crash Looks At Tronix Launch – Crash, February 1992
As already detailed, the breakup of Virgin Mastertronic in summer of 1991 required a new name for the budget brand. Crash, in February 1992, announced […]
Press Coverage – Tronix Budget Label Launched – 1991
A few months after Virgin Mastertronic divested its Sega distribution business back to Sega Japan, in the summer of 1991, the company rebranded budget games […]
Press Coverage – ACE Names 50 Most Influential People In Games Industry – ACE, July 1991
Who were the most influential people in the UK games industry in 1991? ACE ran a feature split over many pages in its July issue […]
Press Coverage – Special Feature On The Growth Of Budget Games – Crash, October 1987
In October 1987 Crash devoted two pages to a feature on budget games, against the background that more than half of the games sold in […]
Press Coverage – 16 Blitz In Depth Look – Your Commodore, December 1989
Your Commodore followed on from Amiga Format’s feature on the launch of 16 blitz a month later, in December 1989. The changing priorities of the […]
Press Coverage – 16 Blitz Range Is Launched – Amiga Format, November 1989
Wearing suits considerably smarter than they normally donned for a day at the office, budget manager Andrew Wright is flanked by Frank Herman and Alan […]