Game Review: Speed King (Commodore 16 and Plus/4, Mastertronic)
After the original Digital Integration game Speed King had been re-released for the Commodore 64, Mastertronic thought it would make sense to get the game […]
Articles by Warren Pilkington
Mastertronic: Ricocheting the MAD Bulldogs of Entertainment (They Sold Millions, Part 2)
You will remember that some time ago we looked at the real big hitters in terms of sales of Mastertronic games here at the Mastertronic […]
Game Review: Speed King (Commodore 64, Mastertronic)
Mervyn J. Estcourt had programmed the motorcycle racer Full Throttle for the ZX Spectrum, released by Micromega, before turning his attention to the Commodore 64 […]
Game Review: Spectipede (Commodore 16 and Plus/4, Mastertronic)
After Tony Kelly of Mr Chip Software had programmed a version of Spectipede on the Commodore 64, that was different from the original Spectrum version […]
Game Review: Spectipede (Commodore 64, Mastertronic)
After the original release of Spectipede from R&R Software, programmed by Kevin Allison, was re-released by Mastertronic, it was natural that the game was a […]
Game Review: GWNN (Commodore 16 and Plus/4, Mastertronic)
Your mission in GWNN is to effectively head across the galaxy and to find the enemy bases, where you will need to rescue the scientists […]
Micro Natters Part 1: A Mastertronic Re-Release Guide – Commodore 64
Although many of you may associate Ricochet as Mastertronic’s primary re-release label, followed later by the likes of Mastertronic+ and Tronix, what may not be […]
Game Review: Challenger (Commodore 64, Mastertronic)
The game Blitz, originally based on Atari’s Canyon Raider, was released on the Vic-20 in 1981, and Mastertronic also released a Blitz clone for the […]
Game Review: Hektik (Commodore 16 and Plus/4, Mastertronic)
The original Commodore 64 version of Hektik was released in 1984, and some two years later, the original programmer Martin Ellis went back to the […]
Game Review: Spellbound (Commodore 64, MAD)
Spellbound is the second of the Magic Knight series of games, created by David Jones. The Commodore 64 conversion work was handled by Richard Darling, […]