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Game Review: Questprobe feat. The Hulk (ZX Spectrum, Americana)

21 January 2024 Simon Plumbe 0

We’re nothing if not fair here at the Mastertronic Collectors Archive. We want to cover as many different games and platforms as possible on the […]

Game Review: Questprobe feat. The Hulk (C16, Americana)

8 January 2024 Simon Plumbe 0

I won’t go in to too much detail about the plot or the background of this first title in the Questprobe series from adventure writer […]

Game Review: Questprobe feat. The Hulk (C64, Americana)

4 January 2024 Simon Plumbe 0

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 […]

Game Review: Tutti Frutti (Commodore 16 and Plus/4, Mastertronic)

27 November 2023 Warren Pilkington 2

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)

15 November 2023 Simon Plumbe 3

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)

16 October 2023 Simon Plumbe 0

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)

21 September 2023 Simon Plumbe 0

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

16 September 2023 Anthony Guter 0

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)

13 September 2023 Simon Plumbe 3

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 […]