Simon Plumbe, Author at Mastertronic Collectors Archive

Mastervision – The Search Gets Complicated…

3 May 2024 Simon Plumbe 2

If you’ve looked over at our checklist, you will have seen that Mastertronic’s obscure VHS range Mastervision is one of the most difficult of all […]

ZX Spectrum Mastertronic Checklist

30 April 2024 Simon Plumbe 4

The Sinclair ZX Spectrum was one of the biggest platforms supported by the original Mastertronic company. Titles were released right from the company’s launch in […]

Mastervision Checklist Gets A Step Closer To Completion

23 April 2024 Simon Plumbe 2

As you will be aware, one of the most difficult Mastertronic ranges for us to have tracked down has been their VHS label Mastervision. With […]

New YouTube video from Kim Justice looking at the history of Mastertronic and Arcadia

14 April 2024 Simon Plumbe 0

YouTuber Kim Justice has just released a new video taking an in-depth look at the history at the rise and fall of our favourite budget […]

Game Review: Duck Shoot (Vic 20, Mastertronic)

6 April 2024 Simon Plumbe 0

One of the very first releases from Mastertronic, Duck Shoot, gave a good indication of what many of their early games were going to be […]

A Mastertronic Range To Get MAD About…

20 March 2024 Simon Plumbe 2

Unlike most budget publishers, Mastertronic were known to have countless sub-labels. While Ricochet existed solely for re-releases and Rack-It was established to support fellow publisher […]

Infocom Checklist

16 March 2024 Simon Plumbe 0

As well as re-releasing 8-bit budget games on cassette through labels such as Ricochet, Mastertronic licensed a large number of text adventures from Activision from […]

Mastertronic Collectors Archive – Interact With Us!

10 March 2024 Simon Plumbe 0

We’ve been quite active here at the Mastertronic Collectors Archive, with our regular reviews, checklists and other content but there’s one thing we’d like to […]

Game Review: Undermine (Vic 20, Mastertronic)

6 March 2024 Simon Plumbe 0

Mastertronic weren’t afraid of releasing games that were blatant clones of popular arcade games in their early days. It made things easier for developers to […]