Game Review: Classic Adventure (BBC Micro, Melbourne House)
When you look at games that are released across a wide range of formats, some platforms like the BBC Micro often struggle when compared with […]
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Mastertronic Collectors Archive Weekly Digest – 15th February 2026
As you will have noticed at the start of the week, we decided to have another one of our themed weeks here at the Mastertronic […]
Game Review: Olympic Skier (Atari, Americana)
There were only a couple of sports games released as part of the Americana range, and of those only one – Olympic Skier – made […]
Mastertronic Collectors Archive Mailing List – Important Update
It’s been brought to our attention that some of you who subscribed to our old mailing list are having issues viewing posts when following the […]
Game Review: Horace Goes Skiing (ZX Spectrum, Melbourne House)
Nintendo and SEGA have both been extremely successful in not only building brands around their consoles, but in managing to create iconic characters that people […]
Announcing the Mastertronic Collectors Archive Sports Week!
Regular site visitors will have seen some of our other themed weeks by now including our Horror and Football weeks that we’re run in the […]
Mastertronic Collectors Archive Weekly Digest – 8th February 2026
We had a quiet week here at the Mastertronic Collectors Archive last week so we didn’t get to post a great deal of content, hence […]
Game Review: Classic Adventure (Commodore 16, Melbourne House)
I’ve always been fond of text adventures and once I started my journey into home computing, it was the first genre I delved into thanks […]
Mastertronic Collectors Archive Weekly Digest – 25th January 2026
The excitement of our recent football special is over so it’s time to get things back to some sense of normality here at the Mastertronic […]
My Top 5 Vic 20 Mastertronic Games
Even though I’d been a gamer since the mid-70s starting off with one of the early Pong clones and then moving onto LCD and tabletop […]