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Some time ago Warren Pilkington took a look at the Commodore 16 version of Tutti Frutti and was extremely impressed. In fact, he awarded the C16 exclusive one of his highest scores so far here on the Mastertronic Collectors Archiv...


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You play a detective (who looks like Sherlock Holmes) who has been assigned to track down who killed the “Butler”.

To work out the clues, you need to walk around the rooms, speak to suspects, and bribe the different characters in the rooms.

Skill Levels

At the start of the game, you can choose from three skill levels.  The lower the number, the harder the game i...


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It’s been a huge couple of weeks for us here at the Mastertronic Collectors Archive. Not only have we been busy over on YouTube with more new videos, but thanks to all the recent reviews we’ve added to the site we’ve been working overtime updating a lot of our checklists. With these, not only have we been adding links to all our latest reviews but also expanding many of them ...


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Silkworm (released as Silk Worm in the arcades) is originally an arcade game, made by Tecmo. Virgin Games got the rights to produce the home conversions and they were released at full price, produced by The Sales Curve for them. Most of the home conversions appeared to show the title as Silkworm on the inlay and so on, despite the loading and title screen showing the game as ...


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Once upon a time, Double Dragon was the beat-em-up. Before Street Fighter 2 reframed the genre, this scrolling brawler set the standard for two player fisticuffs. Fighting through the streets, taking out violent thugs on a mission to rescue your girlfriend, and with fantastic graphics and brutal, violent gameplay, Double Dragon wowed players round the globe.<...


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