Press Coverage – More talk on Virgin buying into Mastertronic – Your Computer, January 1988
Your Computer, January 1988, focused on the attractions to Virgin of buying into Mastertronic (though the Sega connection passed them by).
History
Press Coverage – Virgin buys Mastertronic… again? – ACE, January 1988
Virgin bought a 45% stake in Mastertronic in the summer of 1987. It seemed to take a long time for some to get the news. […]
Press Coverage – Rockford unveiled as first game from new-look Melbourne House – ACE, January 1988
The first fruits of the Arcadia project began to hit the shops. A fresh look for Melbourne House as well. Pity the game was so […]
Press Coverage – Mastertronic teams with Psygnosis and Arcadia title revealed – ACE, December 1987
An interesting deal with Psygnosis for Mastertronic to do 8-bit conversions of some of their 16 bit titles, and the first view of Roadwars on […]
Mastertronic Covermounted Games Checklist
Over the years, a vast number of Mastertronic games have been given away for a range of 8-bit and 16-it formats. Included as part of […]
Mastervision – The Search Gets Complicated…
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 […]
Press Coverage – Mastertronic Acquires Double Dragon License – Popular Computing Weekly, 31st December 1987
Birth of what was to be a highly successful arcade tie-in. Double Dragon was a smash hit both in full price and budget versions. The […]
Press Coverage – SEGA Master System Success! – Popular Computing Weekly, 31st December 1987
Popular Computing Weekly, 31 Dec 1987, is happy to publish a press briefing about the first year of Sega Master System sales. What Rachel Davies […]
Press Coverage – Games Chart Advertisement – Popular Computing Weekly, 17th December 1987
Mastertronic was infamous in the magazine world for not advertising. But the price we paid was reduced editorial coverage. Sales Director Alan Sharam believed that […]
Press Coverage – Review Disparity Between Budget And Full-Price Games – Zzap 64, December 1987
A fierce controversy in the letters pages of Zzap 64, in December 1987, about the amount of space given to budget software produced a remarkable […]