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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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“Another Visitor… Stay a while… Stay Forever…” Few lines in gaming are as instantly recognisable as that digitised taunt which opens Impossible Mission, Dennis Caswell’s landmark 1984 creation for Commodore 64.  Long before cinematic cut-scenes, sprawling save systems and tutorials that held your hand like an anxious parent, Impossible Mission threw players into a hostil...


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Some four months after the ZX Spectrum conversion of Las Vegas Video Poker, the MSX version was released – using the later Entertainment USA type cover art – and indeed a catalogue number from the 310 range rather than the USA ones. This happened to be the only Entertainment USA game that was released on the MSX.

When loading, the game has the same loading scre...


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Slamball was first released in the USA by Synapse Software in 1984.  If that name sounds familiar, that is because they also released the likes of Blue Max, Fort Apocalypse and the conversion of the Sega arcade machine Zaxxon too.  Naturally, when Americana was launched in 1986, it made sense to bring over to the UK games which may not have made it across the pond b...


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It’s been another busy few weeks for us here at the Mastertronic Collectors Archive, with more work on our regular checklists, plenty of new reviews including more coverage for MSX fans out there, and another video over on our new YouTube Channel.

Talking of our YouTube channel, we’re going to be running some competitions over there soon for our subscribers once we hit...


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All fun has been banned by The System that is controlling The Universe.  The System has indoctrinated everything to have total control.  There are, however, four teenage Wrangles whose mission it is to find Terminus, their leader and brains to re-educate against The System and gain freedom within the Universe once again.

A One Player Game with Four Chara...

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