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Game Reviews

Game Review: Zork I (Amiga, Infocom)

28 May 2025 Simon Plumbe 0

Infocom’s range of text adventures were a thing of legend amongst anyone who played them. In the 8-bit era not many UK gamers were fortunate […]

Game Review: Fighting Warrior (Commodore 16 and Plus/4, Mastertronic)

27 May 2025 Warren Pilkington 0

Fighting Warrior is set in Egypt, and you are the Fighting Warrior, the champion of all the land (not quite and all the world though.) […]

Game Review: One Man and His Droid (ZX Spectrum, Mastertronic)

26 May 2025 Brian Kemp 0

The Only Way Is Up (Well, Not Quite) Straight from the beginning, you need to move your Droid through a lot of fast moving Ramboids […]

Mastertronic Collectors Archive Weekly Digest – 25th May 2025

25 May 2025 Simon Plumbe 0

It’s that time again, as we bring you our round-up of all the new content and updates to the Mastertronic Collectors Archive from the last […]

Game Review: Fighting Warrior (Commodore 64, Mastertronic)

25 May 2025 Warren Pilkington 0

Fighting Warrior is set in Egypt, and you are the Fighting Warrior, the champion of all the land (not quite and all the world though.) […]

Game Review: Super Nudge 2000 aka Fruitbank (Commodore 64, Mastertronic Plus/ PAL Developments)

22 May 2025 Warren Pilkington 1

Super Nudge 2000 is what the game says on its cover, and indeed, has the letters Supernudge on the Spectrum version of the game.  However, […]

Game Review: Los Angeles SWAT (ZX Spectrum, Entertainment USA)

22 May 2025 Brian Kemp 0

Not Quite Rolling Out the Red Carpet Once you start a new game, it doesn’t have the background drawn out ready.  Instead, a very slow […]

Mastertronic Collectors Archive Weekly Digest – 18th May 2025

19 May 2025 Simon Plumbe 0

Well, it’s been an eventful few weeks here at the Mastertronic Collectors Archive! Eagle-eyed readers will have noticed that we haven’t really updated the site […]

Game Review: World Darts (Amiga, Mastertronic)

5 May 2025 Mark Macrae 0

Back in the 80s, the first thing to look forward to after Christmas was the BDO World Darts championship, also known as Embassy World Darts […]

Game Review: Dynamix (Commodore 64, Mastertronic)

4 May 2025 Warren Pilkington 1

Dynamix started out as a game with a different name entirely – Kinetix.  The game was pitched to publishers under that name and already had […]

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