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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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Once again, real life got in the way of us being as active as we wanted to over the last couple of weeks here at the Mastertronic Collectors Archive, but we’ve been working hard to make up for it over the last few days. First up, we’ve got a brand new checklist for you all, covering the Atari ST and while it’s still early days for this we hope to add to this on a regular basi...


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It was Christmas morning 1985. A big box awaited myself and my brother, and inside it was not a Commodore 64, but the Commodore Plus/4 Pack. This was being sold off in most department stores in the UK for around £100, and had the computer, a joystick, cassette deck and ten games.  It was a good pack to start you off, even if this and its sister system, the Commodore 16, ...


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When Commodore released the Amiga, which was meant to be a games machine released by Atari, they needed to release their own rival computer to challenge Commodore’s flagship system. Rather than attempting to compete technically, Atari went straight for people’s wallets giving the Atari ST an immediate advantage in the marketplace, giving it a greater foothold, especially in t...


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Trailblazer started life not, as people may think, on the Commodore 64. In fact, it was first released on the Commodore 16 and Plus/4, with the game receiving excellent reviews for its fast pace and superb playability.  Although it was one player only, all the main game elements originated from that version, and it was natural that Shaun Southern would convert his own ga...


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The Opening Main Menu

Before playing the game, you’ll see the main menu screen.  Here you can chose one or two players, their names, controls and difficultly levels.

The difficulty of the computer player ranges from 1 to 4, with the default being 1 for easy.  To change this, pressing the respective key (number 6) takes a while to respond before the level numb...


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