Simon Plumbe, Author at Mastertronic Collectors Archive

Game Review: Questprobe feat. The Hulk (C16, Americana)

8 January 2024 Simon Plumbe 0

I won’t go in to too much detail about the plot or the background of this first title in the Questprobe series from adventure writer […]

Game Review: Questprobe feat. The Hulk (C64, Americana)

4 January 2024 Simon Plumbe 0

Scott Adams is a name that will be familiar to most of you who grew up in the 8-bit gaming era. If the name isn’t […]

Infinite Frontiers – Celebrating 35 Years Of Geek Culture…

1 January 2024 Simon Plumbe 0

For those of you reading this who aren’t familiar with the name, Infinite Frontiers is the fan organisation behind this website. Founded in 1989, we’ve […]

Game Review: BMX Racers (Commodore 16, Mastertronic)

15 November 2023 Simon Plumbe 3

One of my first reviews for this website looked at Richard and David Darling’s BMX Racers for the Commodore 64. It has to be said […]

Commodore 16 Checklist Cover Scans Issue

11 November 2023 Simon Plumbe 0

Thanks to one of our readers, Andy Zeidler, it’s been brought to our attention today that there’s been an issue with some of the cover […]

Commodore 16 Mastertronic Checklist

6 November 2023 Simon Plumbe 1

Mastertronic supported all four of Commodore’s 8-bit systems and unlike the Vic 20, most of their ranges had something for the Commodore 16 and Plus4. […]

Game Review: Gaplus (Commodore 64, Mastertronic)

16 October 2023 Simon Plumbe 0

Being a budget publisher, one of the things that you wouldn’t expect from Mastertronic was licensed titles. Yet that’s what they released when a limited […]

New sci-fi novel from David Jones, Booting Ada, released on Amazon

3 October 2023 Simon Plumbe 0

David Jones, author of the Magic Knight series of games (Finders Keepers, Spellbound, Knight Tyme and Stormbringer) has just released his first novel, Booting Ada. […]