That, of course, was only a strategic marketing decision and had nothing to do with reality.Professor Brian Strain wrote:
COMMODORE FORCE INCORPORATING ZZAP! 64
And don't you forget it!
Zzap died after exactly 4 years. (IMHO
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That, of course, was only a strategic marketing decision and had nothing to do with reality.Professor Brian Strain wrote:
COMMODORE FORCE INCORPORATING ZZAP! 64
And don't you forget it!
Hey, that was decided by the editorial team. Not that I agreed!Mayhem wrote:Then why was the new Zzap!64 labelled issue #107? Ah hah... get out of that one now
I'd say that's mostly the case, mostly. For me, that era had the best design in terms of clarity and style—closer to Edge than C&VG.With #107 we (or should I say:Craig) tried to go back to the Zzap era 1986/1987
I totally agree, and I hasten to add: you did an excellent job!CraigGrannell wrote:I'd say that's mostly the case, mostly. For me, that era had the best design in terms of clarity and style—closer to Edge than C&VG.With #107 we (or should I say:Craig) tried to go back to the Zzap era 1986/1987
Yeah, I for one think that was essentially achieved. It had the flavor of the mag in the early days. Whilst my letter didn't win letter of the month, I am sure that was just an oversight due to time restrictionsMr.Zzapback wrote:With #107 we (or should I say:Craig) tried to go back to the Zzap era 1986/1987, so what's in a number?
Did you ever come back to find frogs on the doorstep, though? I used to have to throw coins at them to get rid of them.Randy wrote:Barnaby, now there was a cracking bloke.
Rented his cottage down by the water after escaping The Boarding House From Hell and felt like a proper creative type!
Looking back, it was a right dump, but no worse than I left Gaz Penn's place.
Never came back to find the front door kicked off its hinges by the Old Bill either, but hey, that's Sarf London for you.
Gulp!Iain wrote:There sure as hell is a lot of ex Newsfield staff showing up here over the past year, it's great to see!
Reminds me to backup the forum again!