Game Review: Action Biker (ZX Spectrum, Mastertronic)
One of Mastertronic’s biggest sellers of 1985 wasn’t an arcade clone as many of their early titles often were. Nor was it a re-release from […]
Articles by Simon Plumbe
Mastertronic Collectors Archive Weekly Digest – 7th December 2025
We’re back once more with another round-up of all the latest content and updates here on the Mastertronic Collectors Archive from the last seven days. […]
Game Review: Action Biker (Atari, Mastertronic)
One of the biggest problems when it came to budget games for the 8-bit Atari was loading times. While disk speeds were fantastic, cassettes were […]
Game Review: Action Biker (Commodore 64, Mastertronic)
Most of the early games from Mastertronic were blatant copies of popular arcade games, or were re-releases from other publishers that they acquired to build […]
Mastertronic Collectors Archive Weekly Digest – 23rd November 2025
We’re back again with another round-up of all the latest content that we’ve added to the Mastertronic Collectors Archive website over the last seven days. […]
Game Review: Questprobe – Spiderman (BBC Micro, Americana)
While I’m usually drawn more to arcade shoot-em-ups when it comes to retro gaming, I’ve always had a soft spot for RPGs and text adventures. […]
Mastertronic Collectors Archive Weekly Digest – 16th November 2025
It’s time once again to take a look at all the latest updates here at the Mastertronic Collectors Archive. While we don’t have as many […]
Game Review: Mission Mercury (Vic 20, Virgin Games)
The name Steve Lee might not be familiar to Commodore fans, but his games certainly will be. When it comes to Mastertronic, his most well […]
Mastertronic Collectors Archive Weekly Digest – 9th November 2025
It’s been another busy week here at the Mastertronic Collectors Archive and once again we’ve been working on both plenty of new reviews, updating more […]
Game Review: Questprobe – Spiderman (ZX Spectrum, Americana)
Back in the 1980s, gaming was always seen as being hobby for nerds – and it generally went without saying that if someone was a […]