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Rapid Fire certainly has lent plenty of inspiration from films and arcade machines. The front of the inlay has a character very akin to Sylvester Stallone in Rambo, and although not instantly recognisable, is inspired by the hard-to-find arcade game Special Forces (in itself a blatant lift of Kung Fu Master but with guns.) The plot details that there is an abandoned warehouse...


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The original Commodore 64 version of Speed King had been a re-release of the Digital Integration game, and the game had proved to be a success due to the fact that you had to think about the speed and gear for corners, not necessarily going flat out all the time. Conversions were programmed for other systems, and Ed Hickman once again had the job of creating the MSX version a...


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It’s been another busy couple of weeks here at the Mastertronic Collectors Archive, but also a rather eventful one behind the scenes. Once more we’ve got a great selection of reviews spanning a healthy range of formats but unfortunately, over on our YouTube channel we haven’t been able to release as many videos as we would have liked over the last few weeks.

In fact we...


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Originally released for the ZX Spectrum by R&R Software and then re-released by Mastertronic, Spectipede eventually made its way over to a range of formats including the Commodore 64, Commodore 16, BBC Micro and unusually the Electron. While I own both of the latter two Acorn versions, I opted to check out the BBC Micro version this time…

Spectipede – Another ...

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The cops have been watching a notorious gang and have now decided that you must break into their warehouse.  The mission is to therefore destroy the warehouse and state-of-the-art equipment inside.

The gang have killed more cops than you’ve had hot dinners so need to be got rid of as soon as possible.  This sounds like the theme of a good game, but so does it...


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