Posted By
Waz
on 2024-03-05
16:13:37
|  Re: Mastertronic sales
As @Ulysses777 correctly noted, the timing of game releases, especially in the early years, helped establish Mastertronic in the C16 and Plus/4 software field, and with their range of support being extensive, did get some brand loyalty back - in droves.
It's also notable that some of the sales around Christmas 1985 were when a lot of us (me included) were getting the Plus/4 Pack from department stores for Christmas, for £99 or so, which was a bargain. Naturally you wanted some extra games cheap and that's where Mastertronic came in - which is why the likes of Tutti Frutti Formula 1 Simulator Big Mac et al sold especially well for that era.
The top ten incidentally have nine Mr Chip games (no surprise whatsoever) with Shaun Southern taking four of the top five sales slots. That top ten reads as:
1 - Formula 1 Simulator - 173,498 (most sales on any single format for a single game)
2 - BMX Racers - 120,227
3 - Vegas Jackpot - 100,651
4 - Kikstart - 92,912
5 - Tutti Frutti - 91,656
6 - Speed King - 88,821
7 - Big Mac - 84,762
8 - Rockman - 84,182
9 - Squirm - 82,108
10 - Spectipede - 79,800
If you take all the sales figures added together (Mastertronic, MAD, Bulldog, Ricochet and exclude Americana, as not all figures known) then that's a massive 2,190,955 games sold altogether. Not bad at all that.
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