Trigger Happy
Steven Poole's substantial examination of the world inside your console, combines an exhaustive history of the games industry with a more subtle look at what makes certain kinds of games more engaging than others. e.g. what works in which genres--the RPG versus the god game--and the relationship of video games to other forms of media.
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
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 and Mr. Zzapback for doing the Zzap, ZzapTest, ZzapRrap, ZzapBack logos...
Since 5th November 1999 and more than 3000 before that.
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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
20 January 2010 I decided to try out this new fancy web thingy... Twitter! ... more
11 October 2009 Yeap. You read correctly. Oli Frey Zzap originals are now at the Zzuperstore. ... more
18 December 2007 The domains zzap64.com and zzap64.org have been registered and now point to zzap64.co.uk. ... more
7 June 2007 As many of you regulars know. I have done very little with the site over the past few years. That's been down to a number of reasons, e.g. lack of motivation, seemingly insurmountable amount of work and lack of direction. ... more
5 April 2007 It's taken around 8 years but the front page has just clocked up 300,000 hits on the hit counter. That's quite a significant number when you think about it. ... more
18 April 2006 It's been a long time in coming but Roger's book about Oliver Frey and his art is now out. Go to the Oli Book page for more info and links ... more
26 January 2006 Oliver Frey recently discovered a load of old photos from the early Newsfield days in a disused drawer. Roger sent them to Mort along with some comments and Mort passed them onto me. I got permission from Roger to show them to the world so here they are! ... more
3 January 2006 I have started to add the 100 All-Time Computer Greats by Mel Croucher feature to the site. The other 3 parts will be added shortly. ... more
Trigger Happy
