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Codemasters: cassette-era advertising

Catalogue advertising, a shop poster and a trade advert from the home-computer years.

Codemasters shop poster showing game covers and a sports car.

Codemasters shop poster from the cassette-game era.

Credit: Codemasters / Oliver Twins archive

Source: The Oliver Twins archive

Usage: Historical publication; copyright remains with its original rights holders.

Advertising · cassette games

The covers, posters and shop-facing advertising show how the games reached players. These are historical adverts, not current offers: their prices, competitions and availability belong to the time they were printed. The trade advert is identified as 28 March 1988 in its source filename.

Codemasters shop poster showing game covers and a sports car.

Codemasters shop poster from the cassette-game era.

Credit: Codemasters / Oliver Twins archive

Source: The Oliver Twins archive

Usage: Historical publication; copyright remains with its original rights holders.

Open original scan or photograph: Codemasters shop poster from the cassette-game era

Codemasters catalogue advert showing a range of cassette game covers.

A Codemasters cassette catalogue advert from the official collection.

Credit: Codemasters / Oliver Twins archive

Source: The Oliver Twins archive

Usage: Historical publication; copyright remains with its original rights holders.

Open original scan or photograph: A Codemasters cassette catalogue advert from the official collection

Black-and-white Codemasters trade advert promoting its range to shops.

Computer Trade Weekly advert, 28 March 1988, as identified in the source filename.

Credit: Codemasters / Computer Trade Weekly / Oliver Twins archive

Source: The Oliver Twins archive

Usage: Historical publication; copyright remains with its original rights holders.

Open original scan or photograph: Computer Trade Weekly advert, 28 March 1988, as identified in the source filename

Source & credits

Original Oliver Twins Features collection

Added to this Archive on 9 October 2026. The publication date for this entry is the date of this new selection; original dates are stated separately where known. Original publishers, photographers and trademark owners retain their rights.

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