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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:
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> 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
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> Here's a link to their catalog. Brings back some good memories.
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> http://www.lemon64.com/games/list.php?type=publisher&nam e=Mastertronic&lineoffset=0
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> 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 #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:
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> 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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Registered: January 2005
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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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