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Best sellers and Releases
There are three tables on this page
The Top 30 - Sales on all formats - Titles released on a Mastertronic label
(Mastertronic 199, MAD, Mastertronic Plus, Bulldog, Ricochet, Entertainment USA)
| Title | Unit
Sales |
notes |
|---|---|---|
| FORMULA 1 SIMULATOR | 568013 |
Perennially, somewhat inexplicably, popular racing game |
| GHOSTBUSTERS | 412922 |
The budget re-release of Activision's hugely successful full price title |
| BMX RACERS | 345423 |
Best of the early titles by the Darling brothers |
| FINDERS KEEPERS | 330758 |
First in David Jones' Magic Knight sequence. |
| VEGAS JACKPOT | 306957 |
Funny how popular fruit machine simulations are. From Mr Chip Software |
| SPEED KING | 304499 |
Re-release - one of my favourite racing games |
| DOUBLE DRAGON | 289510 |
No introduction needed for this budget re-release |
| KIKSTART | 286256 |
Enduringly popular racing game by Mr Chip based on motorbikes with a head to head feature that permitted two players to race against each other |
| KIKSTART 2 | 283585 |
A rare example of a sequel doing as well as the original |
| CHILLER | 280173 |
Controversial Darling brothers spin on M. Jackson. I paid real money for this and wished I hadn't. |
| KANE | 262829 |
Another of my favourites, multitasking action with a Western flavour |
| ACTION BIKER | 251515 |
Our first "3D" game, unhampered by the KP Skips tie-in |
| ONE MAN & HIS DROID | 212722 |
Excellent action puzzler with one of Rob Hubbard's best tunes |
| MOLECULE MAN | 210693 |
Popular room/puzzle Sabre Wulf style game |
| 180 | 196155 |
Darts game, cleverly satirising the current popularity of the game on TV |
| NINJA | 194897 |
Our first fighting title, cashing on the vogue for Eastern violence |
| STORM | 193074 |
A well received Gauntlet clone |
| FEUD | 191381 |
Clever, but rather frustrating, maze and magic arcade. Best of the many titles produced for us by Binary Design |
| WAY of the EXPLODING FIST | 182407 |
Budget re-release of Melbourne House's smash hit |
| SPECTIPEDE | 178115 |
Everybody had a clone of Centipede |
| MILK RACE | 174110 |
In the 1980s Britain's Milk Marketing Board sponsored a cycle race. So we did a title based on it. |
| MASTERCHESS | 167601 |
Undeservedly successful chess game |
| LA SWAT | 161672 |
I liked this street scene shoot 'em up. From Utah based Sculptured Software. |
| SPELLBOUND | 152378 |
David Jones' follow up to Finders Keepers - I found it hard to get into it. Excellent music by Rob Hubbard |
| ROCKMAN | 143882 |
A big C16 hit. I never played it. |
| BIG MAC | 139946 |
Clever arcade platformer by Mr Chip - an early example of a quality budget release |
| LAST V8 | 127331 |
First MAD games release at £2.99 |
| VIDEO POKER | 127174 |
Another pointless gambling simulation (but a great cover. I have the original) |
| SQUIRM | 123006 |
Another Centipede clone (I assume, never having played it) |
| NONTERRAQUEOUS | 121533 |
Stupid name, set in a huge maze but unplayable. |
(Including re-releases of other publishers games on the Americana, Rackit, Rebound and Ricochet labels)
| machine | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AMSTRAD | 8 | 20 | 49 | 25 | 21 | 15 | |
| ATARI | 1 | 12 | 18 | 3 | 4 | 1 | |
| BBC | 4 | 3 | 10 | 3 | 1 |
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| C16 | 8 | 17 | 15 | 4 | 1 | ||
| C64 | 21 | 22 | 28 | 69 | 58 | 35 | 11 |
| DRAGON | 1 | 1 | |||||
| ELECTRON | 3 | ||||||
| MSX | 3 | 6 | 21 | ||||
| S128 | 1 | 2 | |||||
| SPECTRUM/AMSTRAD Duo tape | 18 | 10 | |||||
| SPECTRUM | 17 | 26 | 30 | 68 | 42 | 27 | 16 |
| VIC | 12 | 5 | 1 | ||||
| Total releases | 55 | 78 | 120 | 254 | 133 | 98 | 44 |
| machine | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AMIGA | 3 | 14 | 11 | 11 | 4 |
| ATARI ST | 3 | 12 | 12 | 11 | 2 |
| IBM | 8 | 11 | 10 | 7 | 3 |
| Total releases | 14 | 37 | 33 | 29 | 9 |
