Mastertronic Collectors Archive

The Amstrad CPC was one of the few 8-bit systems supported by Mastertronic that didn’t receive a conversion of Vegas Jackpot (the other being the MSX). Considering the fact that it was one of Mastertronic’s all-time best selling titles, it was a strange move, even more so considering that their first Amstrad title came out long before the last of it’s ports. However, all wasn...

Orion was one of a number of games programmed by Graftgold that only saw a release on the Commodore 64. Whilst the blurb on the back inlay reminds you instantly of the Star Wars film franchise, along with the mention of stormtroopers in the instructions, the plot of the game is actually quite simple. Orion is a constellation under threat, and the only way to save it is to ens...

As you will be aware, Mastertronic’s main range of games started life as the 199 Range with that emblazoned on the front cover initially, and for collectors is also known as the 310 range, mainly due to the fact that the catalogue numbers started at 0001 and ended at 0310. This did include other labels within the Mastertronic catalogue too, so the likes of Entertainm...

Until now, I’d never actually played Scumball before writing this review.  This is unusual, as generally I’ve played most of the games that I review, way back in the 80’s.

Anyway, the moment I said that I’d review this game next, there was a sudden burst of messages from the team.  It’s as if I’d stumbled on a gem and by having this game in my collection for so long (b...

Soul of a Robot is the sequel to Nonterraqueous, a game that did not receive a release on the MSX. In fact, this MSX conversion was released a year and three months after the ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC releases, and was a short-lived period where Mastertronic had the MSX format as red text on black (rather than black on white that they previously used for the format.) Only t...