Popular Computing Weekly Archives - Mastertronic Collectors Archive

Press Coverage – New Budget Rivals Arrive – Popular Computing Weekly, August 1989

19 August 2024 Anthony Guter 0

Plenty of competitors continued to pop out of the woodwork. And it’s that man again – Richard Bielby is amongst them. Popular Computing Weekly 3rd […]

Press Coverage – Mastertronic Acquires Double Dragon License – Popular Computing Weekly, 31st December 1987

9 April 2024 Anthony Guter 0

Birth of what was to be a highly successful arcade tie-in. Double Dragon was a smash hit both in full price and budget versions. The […]

Press Coverage – SEGA Master System Success! – Popular Computing Weekly, 31st December 1987

9 April 2024 Anthony Guter 0

Popular Computing Weekly, 31 Dec 1987, is happy to publish a press briefing about the first year of Sega Master System sales. What Rachel Davies […]

Press Coverage – Games Chart Advertisement – Popular Computing Weekly, 17th December 1987

9 April 2024 Anthony Guter 0

Mastertronic was infamous in the magazine world for not advertising. But the price we paid was reduced editorial coverage. Sales Director Alan Sharam believed that […]

Press Coverage – Mastertronic Buys Melbourne House – Popular Computing Weekly, February 1987

11 November 2023 Anthony Guter 0

No question about the story of the week for PCW.

Press Coverage – Mastertronic Pursues A Pirate – Popular Computing Weekly, 30th October 1986

11 November 2023 Anthony Guter 2

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

11 November 2023 Anthony Guter 0

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 […]

Press Coverage – Sales Charts Turmoil! – Popular Computing Weekly, October/November 1986

11 November 2023 Anthony Guter 0

The meaning of the software charts was always being bitterly disputed. It had taken a long time for budget software to be represented but, as […]

Press Coverage – Codemasters Is Launched! – Popular Computing Weekly, 18th September 1986

16 October 2023 Anthony Guter 0

Codemasters is announced. In this article, in Popular Computing Weekly, 18 September 1986, there is a fallacious statement about AI Products Ltd. This company (for […]