The weird case of Raw Recruit
I was surfing on WoS, when I found this game. but the odd thing is that there is no review of this game in any magazine, but the game is available in the WoS shop, so I guess this game was very bad to be reviewed in the magazines??
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Well the game is pretty crap to be honest :D
The lack of reviews in magazines might be down to Mastertronic not sending off review copies but it might also be because there was a glut of other software being released at the time and there simply wasn't enough interest in the game to include it. I think this happened with quite a few budget titles.
EDIT: A quick play on the Java emulator has allowed me to remember that it was the second stage ("Cross Country") that I could never get past as well as that the game is clearly a poor man's Combat School (which makes it a bit silly that I bought it, given that I also owned CS).
Especially Mastertronic's.
YS's "Bargain Basement" section, for instance, only covered ~10 games a month, and you can bet your ass there were more budget games being released than that.
There was a bit of a boom in budget software around the late '80s (I remember CRASH doing a feature on it) so it was likely that, as you said, there was much more being released than was reviewed by then.
Budget software really was a very different market in the 8-bit era because it wasn't about re-releases but more about smaller houses buying-up the stuff that the larger companies weren't interested in which meant you got all the dross but you also got some brilliant stuff like Amaurote and the Magic Knight games. And then there were budget companies like Players who seemed to do stuff in-house. If you spent ?1.99 on a game you hadn't seen reviewed you could be taking a real risk - maybe something like One Man And His Droid or maybe something like Raw Recruit.