Press Coverage – Sales Charts Turmoil! – Popular Computing Weekly, October/November 1986
The meaning of the software charts was always being bitterly disputed. It had taken a long time for budget software to be represented but, as […]
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Press Coverage – Sega and Nintendo arrive! – Computer and Video Games, October 1986
The future looms – Tony Takoushi (later to work for Sega UK) writes about the new wave of console machines, in Computer & Video Games […]
Commodore 16 Mastertronic Checklist
Mastertronic supported all four of Commodore’s 8-bit systems and unlike the Vic 20, most of their ranges had something for the Commodore 16 and Plus4. […]
Press Coverage – Codemasters Is Launched! – Popular Computing Weekly, 18th September 1986
Codemasters is announced. In this article, in Popular Computing Weekly, 18 September 1986, there is a fallacious statement about AI Products Ltd. This company (for […]
Press Coverage – Ariolasoft Becomes UK SEGA Distributor? – Popular Computing Weekly, 11th September 1986
The Sega Master System was on sale in the US and Japan but had yet to reach Europe when PCW, on 11 September 1986, reported […]
Press Coverage – Mastertronic Launches The Magnum Joystick – Popular Computing Weekly, 14th August 1986
Mastertronic sold its own joystick – the Magnum – for a brief period. It clicked a bit but was effective and the pistol grip distinguished […]
Press Coverage – Amstrad User Visits Mastertronic – August 1986
This major article in Amstrad User, August 1986, captures Mastertronic in highly confident mood. The distractions of full-price software, increasing competition in the budget market […]
Press Coverage – Industry Hit With Shortage Of Programmers – Popular Computing Weekly, 10 July 1986
A brief review of the more serious home-computer magazines in 1986 provides many examples of software houses advertising for programmers or games to be submitted. […]
Press Coverage – More Rumours About Mastertronic On The Stock Market – Sinclair User, 19 July 1986
As with the PCW story, there was little real news behind this story and nothing came of it. Nor was there to be a range […]
Press Coverage – Games For 99p? – Popular Computing Weekly, 19 June 1986
Two news items in Popular Computing Weekly, 19 June 1986, of passing interest. Being “Out-Mastertroniced” by a competitor selling games at a RRP of 99p […]