Game Review: Kikstart (Atari, Mastertronic)
Growing up in the UK in the 1980s you can’t have failed to have seen the BBC show Kickstart. The motorcyle trials show was a […]
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Mastertronic: The Big Hitters (They Sold Millions, Part 3)
In the two previous articles in this series, we looked at games on individual formats and how well they sold, including many surprising numbers for […]
Atari ST Mastertronic Checklist
When Commodore released the Amiga, which was meant to be a games machine released by Atari, they needed to release their own rival computer to […]
Game Review: Olympic Skier (Atari, Americana)
There were only a couple of sports games released as part of the Americana range, and of those only one – Olympic Skier – made […]
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: Questprobe – Spiderman (Atari, Americana)
I’m a huge Spiderman fan. There – I said it! So before I even loaded this up first time around back in the 80s it […]
Game Review: On Cue (Atari, Mastertronic)
Sports games have been around on computers and consoles since the industry began with Atari’s Pong, so its no surprise that almost every sport has […]
Game Review: Speed King (Atari, Mastertronic)
The Atari 8-bit release of Speed King is something of a curiosity. Released on the Commodore 64 version, originally published by Digital Integration and later […]
Micro Natters Part 3: A Mastertronic Re-Release Guide – Other 8-Bit Formats
Although many of you may associate Ricochet as Mastertronic’s primary re-release label, followed later by the likes of Mastertronic+ and Tronix, what may not be […]
Mastertronic Collectors Archive Celebrates Its Second Anniversary!
Recently we celebrated a couple of milestones for the Mastertronic Collectors Archive website, publishing not only our 200th game review, but also our 64th review […]