What are your Fave. Mastertronic games? (C64)

[marcfrick2112]

Hey everyone,

 

I suddenly got a huge 'retro urge'... and I fondly remember the cheap (but often pretty good) Mastertronic games...

 

Anyway, I am SURE I used to have way more 'good' games by them... but moving + 20 years.. things get misplaced...

 

Certainly, some games had great music. ('Master of Magic' comes to mind... by the almighty Rob Hubbard..)

 

*oh... sheepishly... does anyone have a scan of the Prowler manual?*

 

Anyway, here's a few I enjoy:

Action Biker

Ninja

SWAT (well, it's OK)

Master of Magic

Prowler

 

So, let's here your favorites!

 

Or, am I just weird... lol

[BydoEmpire]

I was a huge fan of Mastertronic's c64 stuff. They were budget games, but they were usually really, really good. Even if every game on the disk wasn't great, you were pretty much guaranteed one gem on there. I was never disappointed, anyways. So without further ado...

 

Kane is one of my favorite c64 games of all times. Odd, since generally I have no interest in Westerns.

[yell0w_lantern]

Ninja

[+orpheuswaking]

Not a C64 user, but I have all of the Atari 8bit Mastertronic titles on Cassette. Looking at the release list the C64 got a lot more games. Some interesting history on the company here

 

http://www.guter.org/mastertronic.htm

[Oge]

1) Dan Dare III (The Escape)

2) Milk Race

3) Kane

 

Classic Mastertronic cover tapes were wonderful:

 

 

Cheers,

Oge

[marcfrick2112]

Cool posts, everyone! I know there's more I am forgetting...

 

 

I think 'Knight Games' + II were Mastertronic?

[Shephda]

Not a C64 user, but I have all of the Atari 8bit Mastertronic titles on Cassette. Looking at the release list the C64 got a lot more games. Some interesting history on the company here

 

http://www.guter.org/mastertronic.htm

 

Thanks for the link, that is nice reading.!

[FABombjoy]

I really liked Captain Zzap / Zapp / Flash Gordon as a kid. A bit easy once you've gone through it once or twice. I still fire up the SID tunes from it now and again.

[cimerians]

Ninja

Action Biker

Kikstart

Knight Games

 

Ninja was great even if he bounced around kinda goofy.

[Pengwin]

Never a C64 user, but I have great memories of some Mastertronic games. My favs are probably (in no particular order):

 

Ninja

One Man and His Droid

Spellbound

Universal Hero (even better now you can get the 'fixed' version)

[Impaler_26]

My favorite Mastertronic game for the C64 is Bionic Granny ......... err.... just kidding!

 

My real faves are:

 

Ninja

Gaplus

Speed King

Panther

Kikstart I + II

 

 

I think 'Knight Games' + II were Mastertronic?

 

Knight Games I + II are from English Software.

Edited October 29, 2011 by Impaler_26

[high voltage]

A8 versions were available on disk in US as well.

Whilst in the UK C64 + Spectrum received many more Mastertronic games, they've gotten more trash too. I think A8 has the best balance of 'good' Mastertronic games.

 

I like Kickstart, Henry's House (funnily one of the best UK written games too), Knight Tyme series, Universal Hero, Colony, Molecule Man, Chimera and Power Down

Edited October 29, 2011 by high voltage

[marcfrick2112]

My favorite Mastertronic game for the C64 is Bionic Granny ......... err.... just kidding!

 

My real faves are:

 

Ninja

Gaplus

Speed King

Panther

Kikstart I + II

 

 

I think 'Knight Games' + II were Mastertronic?

 

Knight Games I + II are from English Software.

 

OK, thanks!

 

And I forgot Captain Zzap (or Zapp?) and Chimera....

[Impaler_26]

I forgot to mention that you can just go to gamebase64.com and scroll through the list of games released by Mastertronic.

 

http://www.gamebase64.com/search.php?f=1&t=3&s=mastertronic&b=Go!&d=18&h=1&a=0