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Game Review: Supercup Football (Commodore 64, Rack-It)

7 January 2026 Simon Plumbe 0

If you ask most Commodore 64 owners, the chances are that International Soccer will come high up in people’s lists of the all-time greatest football […]

Game Review: Five-a-Side Soccer (Commodore 64, Mastertronic and MAD)

5 January 2026 Warren Pilkington 0

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 […]

Nice Music, Shame About the Game – Commodore 64 (Part 2)

30 December 2025 Warren Pilkington 0

Several Commodore 64 games players, and indeed, fans of the SID sound chip in particular, will have had some conversations over the years beginning with […]

10 Great Mastertronic Commodore 64 Remixes – Part 2

21 December 2025 Warren Pilkington 0

Several Commodore 64 Mastertronic games had some outstanding soundtracks that graced the SID chip, from the likes of Rob Hubbard, David Whittaker, Jeroen Tel, and […]

Game Review: Energy Warrior (Commodore 64, Mastertronic)

21 December 2025 Warren Pilkington 0

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: Dark Tower (Commodore 64, Melbourne House)

13 December 2025 Warren Pilkington 0

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: Action Biker (Commodore 64, Mastertronic)

7 December 2025 Simon Plumbe 0

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 […]

Game Review: Storm (Commodore 64, Mastertronic)

21 November 2025 Warren Pilkington 0

Storm first started out on the Amstrad CPC before getting a conversion to the ZX Spectrum and later the Commodore 64.  There is a very […]

Game Review: Frenesis (Commodore 64, Mastertronic)

16 November 2025 Warren Pilkington 0

Frenesis was originally released on the Atari XL/XE series first, with the Commodore 64 version being next and closely followed with the Commodore 16 and […]

Game Review: The Captive (Commodore 64, Mastertronic)

7 November 2025 Warren Pilkington 0

The loading screen to The Captive seems to have you held prisoner somewhere, which of course is a nod to Nigel Johnstone’s nickname he used […]

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