Game Review: Vegas Jackpot (Vic 20, Mastertronic)
Slot machines and video games have gone hand-in-hand for as long as the industry has been around. Whether its computers or consoles, it’s safe to […]
Slot machines and video games have gone hand-in-hand for as long as the industry has been around. Whether its computers or consoles, it’s safe to […]
In this review of Locomotion, in Popular Computing Weekly 2nd May 1985, the comments about Mastertronic show the difficulty the games industry had in coming […]
Astonishingly, even though memory expansions were readily available for the Vic 20, only two Mastertronic titles required them. Commercially it made sense, allowing their games […]
The games industry back in the 80s managed to release titles that would be rejected in an instant these days. New York Blitz, and those […]
The early days of the 8-bit era were notorious for an endless flood of unofficial ports of arcade games. Every publisher was guilty of this […]
Gerry Anderson’s Thunderbirds was one of the most iconic and instantly recognisable children’s TV shows of the 1960s. Despite only lasting for 32 episodes, it’s […]
Mastertronic burst onto the scene in April 1984, revolutionising both where we could buy our games, and how much (or how little!) we had to […]
The Commodore 64 was still in its formative years in 1984. Developers were still getting to grips with the hardware, both in terms of its […]
In 1984 the world was treated to a surprise and unexpected blockbuster box office hit. A bizarre blend of comedy and supernatural adventure featuring some […]
Mastertronic dominated the budget games industry in the 1980s, but as with every games company they had to start somewhere. BMX Racers was one of […]
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