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Mastertronic Collectors Archive

The Mastertronic Collectors Archive is a website dedicated to the 1980s video games publisher, Mastertronic, packed with game reviews, checklists, features, news, and in-depth behind the scenes coverage of the ground-breaking British publisher.

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Melbourne House established themselves for the Commodore 16 and Plus/4 system with a string of releases early in the machine’s life.  This did give them some form of head start.  Here, the brief was clear: to get in and make a platforms and ladders game in the style of Donkey Kong before anyone else could get one out there, and steal a march on the opposition. ...


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We’ve been making a few tweaks to the website over the last week or so behind the scenes to try to improve not only the way we put content together but also the reader experience for all of you. As part of this, we wanted to deliver a better and more efficient mailing list for those of you who wanted to subscribe for updates on new content as we post it to the site.

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We’re back with our first update of 2026 here at the Mastertronic Collectors Archive and we hope you all a wonderful holiday season and a happy New Year. We didn’t want to abandon the site completely so we did have a few articles up over the festive period, and obviously we’ve been busy this time around with our Football Week celebrating the start of the third round of the 20...


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Flippy Side

This game is a Flippy release meaning that both the Spectrum and Amstrad versions are on the same cassette.  One side for the Spectrum and the other the Amstrad computers.  Obviously, an even bigger bargain if you owned both machines.

Just for clarity, this review is purely written for the ZX Spectrum version only.

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Even though Mastertronic sourced many of their games from other publishers, there were times when only one version was available. In these situations, they turned to many of their trusted developers to convert games to other systems to maximise their sales potential. One such release was the Amstrad version of Five-A-Side Soccer.

Five-A-Side Soccer’s Origins…

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