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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
This picture, courtesy of The Big Book of Amiga Hardware, show how the multi-game Arcadia machine worked. The operators could choose which games to buy […]
The Arcadia project (using Amigas to drive a dedicated cabinet offering a choice of games) staggered into life at the end of 1987. This story, […]
The Games Machine, October 1987, showcased Hewson and the deal by which Mastertronic would create a new budget label for them, in a double-page spread. […]
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