A History Of Mastertronic - For those of us who bought games from the petrol station

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Spellbound was one of my favourite MAD games. Picked it up for £1.99. I also think Finders Keepers was on this label. Superb!


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Way of the exploding fist and Double Dragon were classics on this label
How these guys used to sell their games at £1.99 where every other label were selling at £5.99 - £7.99 was unbelievable.

A good read. I'm awash with nostalgia now. Nice find GimpyMoo
 
Oh, nice find will have a read later but just seeing the name gave me a little shiver of nostalgia. :)
I remember these games being sold everywhere and due to their cheap price you'd always stop and have a look to see which ones they had and quite often end up buying one just based on the cover alone. Had some right crackers on the C64. Happy days.
 
I used to cycle to a news agent that sold these. I can remember them all on a rotary rack. Orange for Amstrad, red for c64, yellow for Spectrum
 
Soul of a robot, empire fights back.

Two of the very first games i bought myself, a steal at 1.99, they were as good as anything released at full price.

86 they released a game called the incredible shriking fireman, quality back then:)
 
Great read.

To be able to buy games at that (equilivant) kind of price now you have to be about 2 - 3 years behind the times.... i know i do it!


I remember the days of getting games from the local newsagents and garage. Had hundreds of games for the C64, funny really as i cant stand having more than about 3 games for the pc on the go.
 
I think, as people have said above who had 100's of games, you had to try the games on the C64. Nowadays with very quick loading, you can try 10 games in a couple of minutes. With C64's, Spectrums, etc. you loaded the game, sat through the sometimes brilliant loading screens - some with music (Ocean was great at this) and some with invader-load (space invaders whilst loading!) and then, finally, played the game. As you had waited sometimes 5 minutes for the game to load you would play it! The magazines were brilliant as well - with full games on the tapes - not just shammy PD demo games - proper full games!

Ah the memories! I still have serveral computers (C64 / Amiga 1200 Tower / Amiga 2000) and I am still collecting them - so if you have anything spare and don't want it let me know!



M.
 
Nice read, definately a trip down memory lane. I remember me and my mates playing kikstart for hours, although gaming has come a long way I still miss those days.
 
Nice lil slice of history there.

I bought tons of budget games for my speccy - but strangely according to the release lists the only Mastertronic game I bought was Werewolves of London.
 
had quite a few of these games....some were good some were not so good...
Firebird(Rainbird) and Codemasters did the same thing...Codemasters first game ever released was BMX simulator on budget label which i have upstairs in my attic along with many others...great memories;)

First games i bought on mastertronic was The curse of sherwood and Knightyme(sequel to Spellbound)
 
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