Mastertronic Collectors Archive

Growing up in the UK in the 1980s you can’t have failed to have seen the BBC show Kickstart. The motorcyle trials show was a hit for well over a decade challenging riders on off-road courses filled will all manner of obstacles against the clock. The junior version was just as successful and it’s no surprise that a game was released based on it. Well, sort of. Shaun Southern, ...

The TOCA series of driving games had become big business for the game’s original publisher, Codemasters, even if by the time of TOCA Race Driver 2, the actual British Touring Car Championship, which the licence was based on, did not appear.  It was the same story for TOCA Racer Driver 3, and later editions would drop the TOCA name.  Reviews of the original release w...

There is no loading screen but once the game has fully loaded, you do get to see what looks like a loading screen.  This made me wonder why that didn’t get displayed during the loading process and just seemed counterintuitive and the wrong way around.  After all, what could have been displayed on the screen for a couple of minutes (and looked reasonably...

With the rights gained to do a game based on the 1987 Tour of Britain, which was sponsored by the Milk Marketing Board and therefore called the Milk Race, it was key for Mastertronic to get the game released on as many 8-bit formats.  With Icon Design handling most of the work, this meant that five formats, including the MSX version here, were covered.  Initial sign...

Before starting a race, you can choose one of the nine tracks available that you’d like to race around.  You can also select if this is anywhere between 1-9 laps (with the default being 2).

The tracks are Brands Hatch (Brands H’Ch), Daytona, Donnington, Jarma, Monza, Paul Ricard, San Marino, Silverstone and Anderstorp.  You will notice here ...