Mastertronic Collectors Archive Weekly Digest – 27th October 2024
It’s been another great week in terms of reviews here at the Mastertronic Collectors Archive. When we entered our second year for the website we […]
Articles by Simon Plumbe
Atari (8-Bit) Mastertronic Checklist
While Atari’s range of 8-bit computers was almost as popular as the Commodore 64 in America, in the UK it took a backseat to the […]
Game Review: Gun Law (Atari, Mastertronic)
I’ve mentioned in other reviews that Mastertronic wasn’t afraid to release games that were “influenced” by arcade classics. Some were blatant clones of games we […]
Mastertronic Collectors Archive Weekly Digest – 20th October 2024
It’s been another busy week here at the Mastertronic Collectors Archive. We’ve got plenty of new game reviews once again and we now have two […]
Game Review: Vegas Jackpot (BBC/Electron, Mastertronic)
In the early days of the company, there were few Mastertronic games more iconic that Vegas Jackpot. Released on no fewer than seven platforms, it […]
Finders Keepers Heads To Nintendo Gameboy As Limited Physical Release!
Here on the Mastertronic Collectors Archive, we have a page where we promote all the various fan remakes of some of our favourite Mastertronic games. […]
Game Review: BMX Racers (ZX Spectrum, Mastertronic)
BMX Racers, like a few of Mastertronic’s releases, has a strange history behind it. Ported to a few platforms, there were two different versions of […]
Mastertronic Collectors Archive Weekly Digest – 13th October 2024
Time for our weekly roundup of all the new content and updates here on the Mastertronic Collectors Archive. Some of the highlights this week include […]
Melbourne House Books Checklist
As well as their extensive software range, Melbourne House were well known for releasing a wide selection of programming books for most 8-bit platforms. These […]
Game Review: Apollo 2 (ZX Spectrum, Mastertronic)
Mastertronic’s Apollo 2 for the ZX Spectrum has something of an identity crisis. Originally published in 1983 by Darkstar, the game’s actual title is Apollo […]