Press Coverage – Crash Looks At Tronix Launch – Crash, February 1992
As already detailed, the breakup of Virgin Mastertronic in summer of 1991 required a new name for the budget brand. Crash, in February 1992, announced […]
History
Press Coverage – Tronix Budget Label Launched – 1991
A few months after Virgin Mastertronic divested its Sega distribution business back to Sega Japan, in the summer of 1991, the company rebranded budget games […]
Press Coverage – ACE Names 50 Most Influential People In Games Industry – ACE, July 1991
Who were the most influential people in the UK games industry in 1991? ACE ran a feature split over many pages in its July issue […]
Press Coverage – Special Feature On The Growth Of Budget Games – Crash, October 1987
In October 1987 Crash devoted two pages to a feature on budget games, against the background that more than half of the games sold in […]
Press Coverage – 16 Blitz In Depth Look – Your Commodore, December 1989
Your Commodore followed on from Amiga Format’s feature on the launch of 16 blitz a month later, in December 1989. The changing priorities of the […]
Press Coverage – 16 Blitz Range Is Launched – Amiga Format, November 1989
Wearing suits considerably smarter than they normally donned for a day at the office, budget manager Andrew Wright is flanked by Frank Herman and Alan […]
Press Coverage – New Budget Rivals Arrive – Popular Computing Weekly, August 1989
Plenty of competitors continued to pop out of the woodwork. And it’s that man again – Richard Bielby is amongst them. Popular Computing Weekly 3rd […]
Press Coverage – Magnum Light Gun – Sinclair User, August 1989
Following our venture into accessory manufacturing with the Magnum Joystick, we then marketed and distributed the Magnum Lightgun. This spread in Sinclair User, August 1989, […]
Press Coverage – Mastertronic… The T-Shirt? – Crash, August 1989
An aggresive new image as the company started moving away from the old Mastertronic styling. I had one of these T-shirts and very good for […]
Mastersound Checklist
In parallel with launching their budget video label Mastervision, Mastertronic also dipped their toes into the world of music in 1987 with Mastersound. The range […]