Game Review: Five-a-Side Soccer (Commodore 64, Mastertronic and MAD)
The origins of Five-a-Side Soccer are not even from a football related game, but an ice hockey one. The US publisher Advantage Artworx had already […]
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Game Review: Alcatraz Harry (ZX Spectrum, Mastertronic)
The Plot Alcatraz Harry must escape from prison using arcade, strategy and adventure skills. Along the way, you must steal secret files, negotiate a mine field, […]
Game Review: Energy Warrior (Commodore 64, Mastertronic)
Energy Warrior was programmed across all the 8-bit formats by Binary Design, based in Manchester, but the Commodore 64 version did have a separate Mastertronic […]
Game Review: Commodore 16 Games Pack II (Commodore 16 and Plus/4, Melbourne House)
Melbourne House published the Commodore 16 Games Book in 1984, and this book contained thirty BASIC type-in games that would suit a wide range of […]
Game Review: Action Biker (ZX Spectrum, Mastertronic)
One of Mastertronic’s biggest sellers of 1985 wasn’t an arcade clone as many of their early titles often were. Nor was it a re-release from […]
Game Review: Dark Tower (Commodore 64, Melbourne House)
Dark Tower may not have appeared to be too advanced a platform game for its time on the Commodore 64, especially as the likes of […]
Game Review: Commodore 16 Games Pack I (Commodore 16 and Plus/4, Melbourne House)
Melbourne House published the Commodore 16 Games Book in 1984, and this book contained thirty BASIC type-in games that would suit a wide range of […]
Game Review: Bruce Lee (ZX Spectrum, Americana)
Fortress, Chambers and Labyrinths As the start of the game, you start in the top-left of the fortress which has mountainous terrain in the distance. […]
Game Review: Action Biker (Atari, Mastertronic)
One of the biggest problems when it came to budget games for the 8-bit Atari was loading times. While disk speeds were fantastic, cassettes were […]
Game Review: Action Biker (Commodore 64, Mastertronic)
Most of the early games from Mastertronic were blatant copies of popular arcade games, or were re-releases from other publishers that they acquired to build […]