Game Review: Specventure (ZX Spectrum, Mastertronic)
When you read the inlay instructions of Specventure, you could be forgiven for needing to know something about the internal workings of a ZX Spectrum! […]
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Mastertronic Collectors Archive Weekly Digest – 27th October 2024
It’s been another great week in terms of reviews here at the Mastertronic Collectors Archive. When we entered our second year for the website we […]
Game Review: Orbitron (Commodore 64, Mastertronic)
Orbitron was made with the popular utility The Games Creator, and not by the Darling brothers – the identity of who made it remaining unknown. […]
Game Review: Gun Law (Atari, Mastertronic)
I’ve mentioned in other reviews that Mastertronic wasn’t afraid to release games that were “influenced” by arcade classics. Some were blatant clones of games we […]
Game Review: Jungle Story (Commodore 64, Mastertronic)
Jungle Story was made with the popular utility The Games Creator, but unlike other early Mastertronic releases was not by the Darling brothers – the […]
Game Review: Dingbat (Commodore 16 and Plus/4, Mastertronic)
Dingbat (or to give it its full title screen name: Dingbat, Wombat, Kick a Kangaroo) was Shaun Southern’s final single (not compilation) release Mastertronic game […]
Mastertronic Collectors Archive Weekly Digest – 20th October 2024
It’s been another busy week here at the Mastertronic Collectors Archive. We’ve got plenty of new game reviews once again and we now have two […]
Game Review: Vegas Jackpot (BBC/Electron, Mastertronic)
In the early days of the company, there were few Mastertronic games more iconic that Vegas Jackpot. Released on no fewer than seven platforms, it […]
Game Review: BMX Racers (ZX Spectrum, Mastertronic)
BMX Racers, like a few of Mastertronic’s releases, has a strange history behind it. Ported to a few platforms, there were two different versions of […]
Game Review: BMX Racers – Version 1 (Commodore 64, Mastertronic)
BMX Racers was, as with other early releases programmed by Richard and David Darling, was made with their own The Games Creator. Like the predecessor […]