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It’s been another busy week here at the Mastertronic Collectors Archive. While we’ve only got a few reviews once again, we’ve been working hard updating a lot of our checklists across the board, and we have the latest instalment in one of our ongoing series of articles, this time doing another deep dive in the sales figures of Mastertronic’s games.
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Few lines in gaming are as iconic as Impossible Mission of the original C64 1984 title by Dennis Caswell.
The central lift… your gateway between rooms and your only moment of relative calm. Impossible Mission – The MissionYour mission… should you choose to accept it… is to thwart Professor Elvin Atombender from launching ...
Americana was a confusing budget label for many. It’s split ownership, run by both Mastertronic and US Gold at different stages in its lifetime focused primarily on re-releases. The majority were games of American original as the name suggested, with the rest being arcade conversions or licensed titles. But a few original titles slipped through the cracks, including Spy Trek ...
Back in 1983, Taskset released Jammin’, a bright and colourful game which involved you having to locate the four instruments for your band and place them in locations on the screen, complete with some excellent music that drove you on – even including some cover versions of Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, Sex Pistols and Jean-Michel Jarre. The concept was addictive and deservedly ...
In the two previous articles in this series, we looked at games on individual formats and how well they sold, including many surprising numbers for systems such as the Commodore 16 and Plus/4. With Anthony Guter having originally written an article about the top selling games across all formats (i.e.: total sales) we thought we would need to take a deeper dive into that...