Indeed, the '.Simulator' series of budget games were very commercially attractive, that suffix usually made the game sell more than a title without it.

founding Code Masters in October of that year, starting with BMX Simulator.

At one point, they had a 50% in Mastertronic, but they sold that in 1986 to become independent. It's astonishing to think these founders of such a successful budget software house started out making games for what would become a huge competitor. They focused on the Commodore 64 platform, producing games such as Space Walk, Chiller, BMX Racers, Jungle Story, Orbitron, Sub Hunt and Pigs In Space (the first three of those have been ported to the Speccy). I'm going through the last issue of SU for software label mentions and, well, Code Masters was pretty much EVERYWHERE in the Speccy's final years.Ĭode Masters (or Codemasters, or CodeMasters, whatever!) arrived about halfway through the machine's commercial life, and was set up by two young brothers, who had been making games, under the name of Galactic Software, for Mastertronic. Yes, this is another titan of Speccy software that's not been picked up until now. 'Uh-oh, let's get on with the games then.' - Pete Prodge 'The biased mainstream media is infested with leftist apologists for illegal.' - Bruce Everiss

'I wonder if I'll get away with forging quotes from these people?' - Pete Prodge 'Those two? We're not too happy about certain aspects of their business arrangements, let's put it that way' - The Oliver Twins 'Pete Prodge does it again with this amazing and sensational software label post!' - David Darling 'Utterly brilliant poll discussion!' - Richard Darling

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