The Def Guide to Zzap!64 - Home

C64 Main Games Demos Magazines GameBox 64 Links

Selected Book from Amazon

Trigger Happy: Videogames and the Entertainme The Edge calls Trigger Happy a "seminal piece of work." For the first time ever, an aficionado with a knowledge of art, culture, and a real love of gaming takes a critical look at the future of our videogames, and compares their aesthetic and economic impact on society to that of film. Thirty years ...

View Item on Amazon.
The Ultimate History of Video Games Inside the Games You Grew Up with but Never Forgot. With all the whiz, bang, pop, and shimmer of a glowing arcade. The Ultimate History of Video Games reveals everything you ever wanted to know and more about the unforgettable games that changed the world, the visionaries who made them, and the fana...

View Item on Amazon.
Supercade: A Visual History of the Videogame It was a time when technology was king, status was determined by your high score and video games were blitzing the world... Supercade is the first book to illustrate and document the history, legacy and visual language of the video game phenomenon, from the fist interactive blips of electronic light...

View Item on Amazon.
Replay: the History of Video Games A riveting account of the strange birth and remarkable evolution of the most important development in entertainment since television, Replay is the ultimate history of video games. Based on extensive research and over 140 exclusive interviews with key movers and shakers from gaming's past, Replay te...

View Item on Amazon.
Masters Of Doom: How two guys created an empi Masters of Doom' is the true inside story of John Carmack and John Romero, co-creators of the most innovative and notoriously successful video games in history - Doom and Quake. They created an empire, ruled a multi-billion-dollar industry, and provoked a national controversy.

View Item on Amazon.

Searching and eBaying

Search the site using

View Mort’s auctions.

Recent Features

Desert Island 5 1/4’s
A Sensible Chat - Part 1
A Conversation Piece - Greg Ba
A Chat with Andrew Braybrook
Lucasfilm Interviews - Part 2

All Features

Recent Reviews

Citadel
Super Scramble Simulator
Rick Dangerous
Buggy Boy
IK+ / International Karate +

All Reviews

Recent Messages

Cameron Davis aka Gazunta in General, 24 May 2024

ZZAP! LIVE 2023 in General, 03 Sep 2023

Roger Kean in Staff, 09 Jan 2023

Zzap!64 #107: 20 years young in General, 10 Feb 2022

2022 Annuals in General, 01 Feb 2022

Redevelopment of Scans Section in Announcements, 15 Nov 2021

Please wait while the issue table is loading...

Collections

Editorials
Zzap! Rrap
Reviews
The Terminal Man
Walker's Way
Birth of a Paradroid
Mental Procreation
The Making of Lemmings
Hack to the Future

Zzap! Megatapes

All of the editorials from the magazine available
Zzap's letters page presented by Lloyd Mangram
Reviews of games which received gold medals
A comic strip which ran in Zzap's early issues
Diary of a Game - Citadel by Martin Walker
Diary of a Game - Paradroid by Andrew Braybrook
Diary of a Game - Morpheus by Andrew Braybrook
Diary of a Game - Lemmings by Alter Developments
Mel Croucher's humourous predictions to up the Year 2000
The tapes are now starting to come online

Misc.

Full Contents
History of Zzap!
Detailed History
Trip to Ludlow
Staff
View all Covers
Zzap Bible
Rrap Message Board
Zzuperstore
Zzap 107 Misc.
Def Tribute to Zzap!64
Early Newfield Photos

A list of all articles that are online (excl. editorials)
A summary of Zzap's past
A detailed history of Zzap
An article detailing my trip to Ludlow to find the old offices of Zzap!
Information on all the editorial staff over the years
Thumbnails of all the Zzap! covers on one page (N.B. Page over 1MB)
Online database containing ratings etc. of all games reviewed in Zzap!
The Rrap is back! Read/write messages relating to anything Zzap!
Get the various magazine scan DVDs in here
Download issue 107 and related articles
Download the magazine as published in Retro Gamer for Zzap’s 20th Birthday
A collection of early Newsfield related photos from Roger

Credits etc.

The Zzap!64 logo and associated images are copyright Oliver Frey 1985 - 2024 and used here with permission.

Get some of his art yourself on the official The Art of Oliver Frey site.

Thanks to Philippe Lesire for scanning in most of the Walker's Diaries and also scanning in some covers, Charles Walkden for scanning a few things from issue 3, Alessandro for scanning in lots of stuff from the early issues, Stephen Stuttard for scanning in just about every issue! , Dimitris Kiminas for doing the editorials for 1990 to 1994, and putting the final touches to the staff table page and donating the text from early reviews, Mr. Zzapback for doing the Zzap, ZzapTest, ZzapRrap, ZzapBack logos and Barry Flowers (aka Sixteen Plus) for the Zzuperstore logo.

Iain Black is a participant in the Amazon EU Associates Programme, an affiliate advertising programme designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.co.uk.

News

11 Aug 2019
Board back open after spamming to death

Well that was quite a lot of spam..... Typically, it happened while I was down Internet access for a week.
... more

04 Dec 2018
Upgrading Forum

Well, that didn't go well. Forum and site was down for a bit this morning when I was trying to upgrade the forum software.
... more

04 Sep 2015
Majority of Scans Temporary Off-line

The hosting of Gamebox64.com and around 70 of the Zzap! issue scans has been closed, a week or so earlier than I thought. I'm looking into getting new hosting.
... more

25 Jul 2015
Reset Magazine Zzap! Themed Issue Out Now!

Reset #07 has been released and is downloadable now. The issue pays tribute to Zzap!64 and features stunning original cover art by Anthony Stiller, paying homage to the Zzap No.1 Elite cover by legendary artist Oliver Frey. Inside there are some special guest appearances from ex-Zzap writers and characters, tribute articles, and a feature article about the C64 version of Elite by Anthony Olver of Elite Archives (C64 Elite also celebrates its 30th anniversary and was reviewed in Zzap No.1).
... more

10 Jun 2015
BIT Live Brighton 20th June - Who is going?

So who is going to BIT Live Brighton? It would be good to have a Zzap forum meetup in some pub beforehand, I believe Chris is giving a list of various meetup pubs before the event so we could pick one of them.
... more

11 Apr 2015
Next Issue of Reset magazine will be Zzap themed

As the birthday is drawing to a close, I'm happy to be able to announce that the next issue of ~~[url=http://reset.cbm8bit.com/]~~Reset magazine[/url] will be heavily Zzap focused.
... more

Old News
Really Old News