Press Coverage – Computer Publishers Moving To Consoles? – The Games Machine, Issue 1
Issue 1 of The Games Machine, a magazine interested in all new forms of computer entertainment, asked leading names in the home computer industry if […]
History
Press Coverage – Mastersound unveiled – Computer and Video Games, July 1987
Mastertronic had a brief foray into two mainstream forms of entertainment, videos and music. This ad, in Computer & Video Games July 1987, gives a […]
Press Coverage – David Jones promotes Stormbringer – Amstrad Action, July 1987
David Jones, author of newly-published Stormbringer, seen here in his ludicrous knight get-up in a corner of our Paul Street office, as part of a […]
Press Coverage – Dominance of Business-Lead Publishers In The Industry – Crash, June 1987
A very thoughtful article by Robin Candy (Crash, June 1987) in which he reviews the changing structure of the games software industry and compares the […]
Press Coverage – Whatever Happened To Richard Bielby? Crash Issue 39, April 1987
A very rare mention of Richard Bielby, the man who organised the teams of distributors in Mastertronic’s early years. As our distribution channels grew we […]
Press Coverage – Melbourne House Buyout, Amstrad Action, April 1987
The takeover of Melbourne House was big news (at least, it felt like to us.) Here is how Amstrad Action reported it, in April 1987. […]
Press Coverage – Beam Software Retrospective, Next Generation, September 1997
The magazine Next Generation published a retrospective on Beam Software, the Australian owners of Melbourne House (prior to its sale to Mastertronic), in the September […]
Press Coverage – Mastertronic Buys Melbourne House – Popular Computing Weekly, February 1987
No question about the story of the week for PCW.
Press Coverage – Mastertronic Pursues A Pirate – Popular Computing Weekly, 30th October 1986
Piracy was a problem for every business publishing software. Normally the concerns were about the ease with which tapes could be copied. Pinching the code […]
Press Coverage – Geoff Heath Joins Mastertronic – Popular Computing Weekly, 23rd October 1986
PCW, 23 October 1986, reports the appointment of Geoff Heath to a senior, but rather vague-sounding, position with Mastertronic. It also printed a picture of […]