Mastertronic Covermounted Games Checklist
Over the years, a vast number of Mastertronic games have been given away for a range of 8-bit and 16-it formats. Included as part of […]
History
Mastervision – The Search Gets Complicated…
If you’ve looked over at our checklist, you will have seen that Mastertronic’s obscure VHS range Mastervision is one of the most difficult of all […]
Press Coverage – Mastertronic Acquires Double Dragon License – Popular Computing Weekly, 31st December 1987
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
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
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 – Review Disparity Between Budget And Full-Price Games – Zzap 64, December 1987
A fierce controversy in the letters pages of Zzap 64, in December 1987, about the amount of space given to budget software produced a remarkable […]
Infocom Checklist
As well as re-releasing 8-bit budget games on cassette through labels such as Ricochet, Mastertronic licensed a large number of text adventures from Activision from […]
Press Coverage – Virgin buys stake in Mastertronic – The Games Machine, December 1987
The Games Machine, Dec 1987, announces the first stage of Virgin’s takeover. They were wrong about Mastertronic going public – this had been Frank Herman’s […]
Press Coverage – A Fan “understands” how budget games work – Amstrad Action, December 1987
A rather charming fan letter printed in Amstrad Action, December 1987. The writer’s confidence in our “strict quality control” was somewhat misplaced but he was […]
Press Coverage – Mastertronic Upcoming Release Feature – Your Commodore, December 1987
Your Commodore had a good look at Mastertronic in the December 1987 issue but the article was poorly edited. It “looks ahead” to the “new […]