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Mastertronic: Low Budget King? [message #146065]

Sun, 04 December 2005 21:23

jbones
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Mastertronic is probably the most underrated game company for the 64.
They put out a handful of affordable, classic games. I definitely had
the following and purchased all but Ghettoblaster:

1985: The Day After
Challenger
The Last V-8
The Master of Magic
The Slugger
Street Beat: An Adventure in the Land of the Good Groove
(Ghettoblaster)
Sub Hunt

Here's a link to their catalog. Brings back some good memories.

http://www.lemon64.com/games/list.php?type=publisher&nam e=Mastertronic&lineoffset=0

Codey/2D

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Re: Mastertronic: Low Budget King? [message #146069 is a reply to message #146065]

Sun, 04 December 2005 21:39

RobertB
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On Sun, 4 Dec 2005, jbones wrote:

> Here's a link to their catalog. Brings back some good memories.
>
> http://www.lemon64.com/games/list.php?type=publisher&nam e=Mastertronic&lineoffset=0

And you can download the games at http://www.mastertronic.net

Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug

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Re: Mastertronic: Low Budget King? [message #146070 is a reply to message #146065]

Sun, 04 December 2005 21:42

Oldbitcollector
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Had you seen this?

http://www.mastertronic.net/

Oldbitcollector

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Re: Mastertronic: Low Budget King? [message #146187 is a reply to message #146070]

Sun, 04 December 2005 21:56

jbones
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Awesome site, thanks. I can't believe the the actual release dates on
those games, it's been so long!

-Codey/2D

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Re: Mastertronic: Low Budget King? [message #146189 is a reply to message #146065]

Sun, 04 December 2005 22:44

David Murray
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"jbones" <jbones76@gmail.com> wrote in
news:1133749421.559432.195290@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:

I looked at the catalog. I have never played any of those games except for
Panther, which was one of my favorite. For some reason I was thinking
Master of the Lamps was made by them, but it must have been activision.
Anyway, I'm tempted to try out Kentilla or some of those other adventure
games. I've been looking for a good adventure game to go through. Haven't
played one in 10 years or more.

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Re: Mastertronic: Low Budget King? [message #146197 is a reply to message #146065]

Sun, 04 December 2005 23:20

Damian Caynes
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jbones wrote:
> Mastertronic is probably the most underrated game company for the 64.
> They put out a handful of affordable, classic games. I definitely had
> the following and purchased all but Ghettoblaster:
>
> 1985: The Day After
> Challenger
> The Last V-8
> The Master of Magic
> The Slugger
> Street Beat: An Adventure in the Land of the Good Groove
> (Ghettoblaster)
> Sub Hunt
>
> Here's a link to their catalog. Brings back some good memories.
>
> http://www.lemon64.com/games/list.php?type=publisher&nam e=Mastertronic&lineoffset=0
>
> Codey/2D

Actually some other companies also produced many classic budget titles,
such as Firebird and Codemasters.

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Re: Mastertronic: Low Budget King? [message #146240 is a reply to message #146197]

Mon, 05 December 2005 06:11

Jason
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Slartibartfast wrote:
> Actually some other companies also produced many classic budget titles,
> such as Firebird and Codemasters.

There's quite a bit of cross-over between Mastertronic and Codemasters, the
early Mastertronic titles were written by David and Richard Darling, Last V8
was "reborn" as Red Max which even uses a redone version of the "extra"
first level of V8 128, their Games Creator became Creations (it was also
sold by Mirrorsoft prior to Mastertronic having the rights, i believe) and
the BMX games trend the Darlings started with BMX Racers continued to BMX
Simulator and onwards to all the other likkle simulators.

But personally, if i had to point at one budget company i'd point at
Firebird Silver / Silverbird simply for games like Warhawk. Like
Mastertronic.net there's a great Telecomsoft (originally a division of
British Telecom and the base company behind Firebird, Silverbird and
Rainbird) history site run by a former employee at;
http://www.birdsanctuary.co.uk/
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Re: Mastertronic: Low Budget King? [message #146644 is a reply to message #146065]

Tue, 06 December 2005 08:26

Jerry Kurtz
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My favorite Mastertronic title was by far "Ninja."

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Re: Mastertronic: Low Budget King? [message #147044 is a reply to message #146065]

Wed, 07 December 2005 14:53

Ian McCall
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On 2005-12-05 02:23:41 +0000, "jbones" <jbones76@gmail.com> said:

> Mastertronic is probably the most underrated game company for the 64.
> They put out a handful of affordable, classic games. I definitely had
> the following and purchased all but Ghettoblaster:
>
> 1985: The Day After
> Challenger
> The Last V-8
> The Master of Magic
> The Slugger
> Street Beat: An Adventure in the Land of the Good Groove
> (Ghettoblaster)
> Sub Hunt

.....Hunter Patrol
One Man And His Droid (-fantastic- music)
Chiller, incredibly hard
Nonterraqeous I think?
Kane - excellent animation

I had loads of them, and enjoyed them a lot.

Cheers,
Ian

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Re: Mastertronic: Low Budget King? [message #147084 is a reply to message #146240]

Thu, 08 December 2005 04:46

John Selck
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Jason wrote:
> But personally, if i had to point at one budget company i'd point at
> Firebird Silver / Silverbird simply for games like Warhawk.

Mastertronic released a huge amount of games but 90% of them were lousy.
Firebird released far less but the games usually had a higher quality
(except the first ones they did).

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