Press Coverage – David Jones promotes Stormbringer – Amstrad Action, July 1987
David Jones, author of newly-published Stormbringer, seen here in his ludicrous knight get-up in a corner of our Paul Street office, as part of a […]
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Press Coverage – Dominance of Business-Lead Publishers In The Industry – Crash, June 1987
A very thoughtful article by Robin Candy (Crash, June 1987) in which he reviews the changing structure of the games software industry and compares the […]
Press Coverage – Whatever Happened To Richard Bielby? Crash Issue 39, April 1987
A very rare mention of Richard Bielby, the man who organised the teams of distributors in Mastertronic’s early years. As our distribution channels grew we […]
Press Coverage – Melbourne House Buyout, Amstrad Action, April 1987
The takeover of Melbourne House was big news (at least, it felt like to us.) Here is how Amstrad Action reported it, in April 1987. […]
Press Coverage – Beam Software Retrospective, Next Generation, September 1997
The magazine Next Generation published a retrospective on Beam Software, the Australian owners of Melbourne House (prior to its sale to Mastertronic), in the September […]
Press Coverage – Mastertronic Buys Melbourne House – Popular Computing Weekly, February 1987
No question about the story of the week for PCW.
Press Coverage – Mastertronic Pursues A Pirate – Popular Computing Weekly, 30th October 1986
Piracy was a problem for every business publishing software. Normally the concerns were about the ease with which tapes could be copied. Pinching the code […]
Press Coverage – Geoff Heath Joins Mastertronic – Popular Computing Weekly, 23rd October 1986
PCW, 23 October 1986, reports the appointment of Geoff Heath to a senior, but rather vague-sounding, position with Mastertronic. It also printed a picture of […]
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 […]
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 […]