Game Review: Questprobe feat. The Hulk (C64, Americana)
Scott Adams is a name that will be familiar to most of you who grew up in the 8-bit gaming era. If the name isn’t […]
Reviews
Game Review: Tutti Frutti (Commodore 16 and Plus/4, Mastertronic)
Mastertronic released many games that were exclusive to the Commodore 16 and Plus/4 format, and one of these was Tutti Frutti, coded by Shaun Southern. […]
Game Review: BMX Racers (Commodore 16, Mastertronic)
One of my first reviews for this website looked at Richard and David Darling’s BMX Racers for the Commodore 64. It has to be said […]
Game Review: Gaplus (Commodore 64, Mastertronic)
Being a budget publisher, one of the things that you wouldn’t expect from Mastertronic was licensed titles. Yet that’s what they released when a limited […]
Game Review: Vegas Jackpot (Vic 20, Mastertronic)
Slot machines and video games have gone hand-in-hand for as long as the industry has been around. Whether its computers or consoles, it’s safe to […]
Press Coverage – Locomotion Review, Popular Computing Weekly – 2nd May 1985
In this review of Locomotion, in Popular Computing Weekly 2nd May 1985, the comments about Mastertronic show the difficulty the games industry had in coming […]
Game Review: King Tut (Vic 20, Mastertronic)
Astonishingly, even though memory expansions were readily available for the Vic 20, only two Mastertronic titles required them. Commercially it made sense, allowing their games […]
Game Review: New York Blitz (Vic 20, Mastertronic)
The games industry back in the 80s managed to release titles that would be rejected in an instant these days. New York Blitz, and those […]
Game Review: Rockman (Vic 20, Mastertronic)
The early days of the 8-bit era were notorious for an endless flood of unofficial ports of arcade games. Every publisher was guilty of this […]
Game Review: Thunderbirds (PlayStation 2, Blast!)
Gerry Anderson’s Thunderbirds was one of the most iconic and instantly recognisable children’s TV shows of the 1960s. Despite only lasting for 32 episodes, it’s […]