Essential Guide to Videogames
The Essential Guide to Videogames features over 1000 of the most important games there have ever been. And in this must-have guide they are reviewed by the very best in the business - by the people at Future magazines, the leading publishers of computer gaming magazines in the UK.
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
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 scan DVD and CDs etc. 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.
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.
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7 December 2011 The web and database server of the website are getting upgraded on Tuesday 13th December so this will probably mean the site will be down. ... more
30 September 2011 You may have noticed the site is now advert free, although it's not by choice. The advert broker I have been with for 11 years have decided to deactivate my account (and many others) because we don't fit their profile any more. ... more
7 August 2011 All DVD prices have been permanently reduced at the Zzuperstore. ... more
10 February 2011 Roger has put up a survey in relation to their site. ... more
19 January 2011 Got this email from Roger: ... more
10 December 2010 Well, I didn't get my copy in the post until Wednesday due to the snow, but it's a very good article with input from both Oli and Roger... ... more
1 May 2010 'Zzap' Black was born at 6:39pm yesterday (29th April). ... more
11 April 2010 25 years to the day when ZZap first hit the shelves and changed the face of C64 magazines forever. ... more
4 March 2010 Seems the main page of the forum (UPDATE - ALL HTML FILES IN SITE), had some malware inserted into it, coming from ns fer.com. ... more
10 February 2010 Limited edition prints are now available at Oli's Art Site ... more
Essential Guide to Videogames
