The Def Guide to Zzap!64

Compilation Full Price

£6.00 or over (Changed to £9.00 or over)

Issues

2-103
June 1985 – December 1993

Occasional compilations were reviewed as a main review or other sections but majority were reviewed in a compilation feature.

Number of Compilations

128

94 Compilations were scored
34 Compilations had no score

Top 20 Compilations

Lucasfilm Prestige 96%
Supreme Challenge 95%
Five Star Games 94%
Epyx Epics 94%
Solid Gold 93%
Ten Great Games 93%
10 Computer Hits 4 92%
Big Box 2 92%
Spy vs Spy Trilogy 92%
Magnificent Seven 91%
Yak's Progress 90%
6-Pak 90%
Superstar Seymour 90%
Taito Coin-Op Hits 90%
4 Smash Hits 88%
Chart Busters 88%
2 Hot 2 Handle 88%
Top Ten Games II 86%
Summer Gold 85%
Konami Coin-Op Hits 84%

21 worst compilations

Spy's Demise & Spy Strikes Back!, The 10%
Starfire & Fire One 22%
4 Soccer Simulators 24%
Super Fighter 28%
Grandslam Collection, The 29%
4 Action Hits 30%
Box Twenty 36%
TNT II: Double Dynamite 40%
Power Plays 41%
Arcade Classics 42%
Coin-Op Classics 42%
Arcade Alley 43%
Classix 1 45%
Psycho's Soccer Selection 45%
Now Games III 46%
Unbelievable Ultimate 46%
Sport Top 10 48%
Classic Collection 48%
Summertime Specials 48%
Hit Pack 49%
Ten Mega Games Volume 1 49%

Two Games were reviewed as part of a compilation

Magicland Dizzy 83%
Hard Drivin' 20%

Type of reviews

Zzap! Test 2,8,59
Crucial Compilations Comparisons 25
Zzap! Adventure 32
A Crucial Christmas Compilation Comparison 33
Another Crucial Compilations Comparisons 38
Compilofax 44
Compilofax II 45
Zzap! 64/Amiga 48
Boxed History 70
The Summer Collections 75
The Summer Collection 76
The Summer Collections! 77
The Winter Collection 79,80
Mega Mix! 82-84,86,88
Compilation Elation! 91,92
Compilations! 93-95,97
Reviews! 100,102,103

Companies

34 different companies

Top number of reviews by companies

US Gold 26
Beau Jolly 12
Ocean 12
Gremlin Graphics 10
Domark 9
Elite 7
Code Masters 5
Ubi Soft 5
Virgin Games 4
Accolade 3
Hewson 3
Imagine 3
The Hit Squad 3
Zeppelin Games 3

Reviewers

16 different reviewers reviewed full price compilations
55 compilations had no reviewers named

Number of reviews

Julian Rignall 33
Gordon Houghton 9
Paul Glancey 8
Ian Osborne 8
Miles Guttery 6
Chris Hayward 3
Phil King 3
Gary Penn 2
James Price 2
Bob Wade 1
Gary Liddon 1
Harlequin 1
Mark Caswell 1
Matthew Evans 1
Robin Hogg 1
Stuart Wynne 1

Issues reviewed

Bob Wade 2
Chris Hayward 92,95,97
Gary Liddon 8
Gary Penn 2,8
Gordon Houghton 45,48
Harlequin 32
Ian Osborne 82,83,91,92
James Price 97,103
Julian Rignall 2,8,33,38
Mark Caswell 84
Matthew Evans 48
Miles Guttery 93-95,100,102
Paul Glancey 44
Phil King 59,86,88
Robin Hogg 59
Stuart Wynne 59