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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...
Starlifter was programmed by Steve Lee, who in the early days of Commodore 64 games, brought you the likes of Falcon Patrol and its sequel. Although not obvious when reading the inlay, when loading the game up and seeing his name on the title screen, you would hope for something that would be good fun to play. The plot of the game is simple too – effectively you n...
Time for another round-up of all the new content we’ve added over the last seven days here at the Mastertronic Collectors Archive. As we said last time, we’re doing a lot of long term planning and content stockpiling right now for some of our upcoming themed weeks, but we’ve still got a brand new article and a few more reviews for you including a couple of arcade shooters fro...
Several Commodore 64 Mastertronic games had some outstanding soundtracks that graced the SID chip, from the likes of Rob Hubbard, David Whittaker, Jeroen Tel, and many more. It was natural as people fell more in love with these soundtracks that they would think “what if I remade it with some nice instruments and made a remix of it?” – and clearly that struck a chord with both...
Unlike the Commodore 64 version of Dizasterblaster, which had previously been released by Mr Chip as Ad Infinitum before then getting a music makeover on its re-release, for the Commodore 16 and Plus/4 systems, this game would prove to be one of the two original games released on the Americana label, the other being