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Andy posted 31-05-2001 01:03 AM GMT
Someone's already asked the question 'what was your first ever Zzap issue', but what I want to know is; what made you buy that issue in the first place? How did you discover Zzap? I actually had it recommended to me by an Amstrad owner! He was familiar with Crash due to his mate owning a Speccy, and he said that if Zzap was as good as theat, it would be pretty damn groovy. Zzap was better than Crash of course. I bought my first issue (issue 10) the very next day. A mind-altering experience that would stay with me forever.
leet posted 31-05-2001 10:19 AM GMT
A friend had a Speccy, and he used to get CRASH - I remember he had the issue that had four pages removed (due to the injunction by SU) and we were walking along York Rd, Hartlepool, reading it(Specific or what!)
Then I was on a day trip to Middlesbrough in Summer 1985 when I bought my first ZZAP!
Mayhem posted 31-05-2001 10:50 AM GMT
My mother bought it for me (issue #19). She'd seen it in the newsagents and thought she'd get it for me to read and buy games with. One of the best choices she ever did :)
waza posted 31-05-2001 11:12 AM GMT
Why? Who can say, it was so long ago BUT I'll never forget the wet Friday night after school, I brought Issue 9 all the way over here in Dunedin, New Zealand. I felt connected, even though it arrived here about 3 months after the UK release... I was hooked ever since till somewhere into the 50s. Ahh great times... even though we have kick arse tech. now and software, there is a certain charm lost from those golden years.... probably the fact every bugger has a grey box at home now and you don't have to press down on the cd/dvd rom to help load a game!
kev posted 31-05-2001 12:16 PM GMT
As i've waffled about this before, thought i'd say it again! Had a good old vic20 but was disapppointed that it wasn't as much fun as my atari 2600, then got lured in to the colourful covers of Crash and Amtix, thankfully bought a copy of ZZAP and hassled Mum and Dad (with help from little bruv) into getting us a c64.......
kev posted 31-05-2001 12:16 PM GMT
what i mean't to say was... the issue with Gunship on the cover!
Mort posted 31-05-2001 01:51 PM GMT
I saw my m8`s issue 1 just before going off to the states on a school exchange trip, did not manage to get the 1st issue but got the second and bartered a couple of games for my m8`s copy of issue 1.
BIGGEST JIM posted 03-06-2001 10:15 PM GMT
Issue 17 was my first, (sept 1986)
with "knightgames"-cover.
The cover-art grabbed me instantly.
Together with the colourful reviews, big screenshots, and cool overall look, I was instantly hooked.
There's never been no real competition though,
Zzap64 was & is the best computer mag ever published. Ta!
Rob de V.
CeeJee posted 16-06-2001 09:20 PM GMT
Somewhere around issue 22. I read them at the local Bruna before that time, thinking that this C64 would be a cool thing to have,
BIGGEST JIM posted 17-06-2001 07:23 PM GMT
Local bruna, local bruna?
CeeJee are you Dutch too?
Or has globalising really taken off??
Rob de V.
1054462 posted 18-06-2001 11:15 AM GMT
My first zzap was bought on a sunny day in Dublin. The cover had blasteroids on it and I remember thinking it looked fairly cool. Also remember being pissed off when I saw the amiga review of dungeon master. I wanted an amiga so bad! Still I read that magazine so many times the pages started to disintegrate!
nemesite posted 28-06-2001 09:36 AM GMT
The issue with the first covertape in 1987. The one with Thalamusic on the back.
CraigG posted 18-07-2001 01:02 PM GMT
#23, with Penn's way OTT editorial. Bought because I was bored with Commodore User.
mazza posted 19-08-2001 02:12 PM GMT
Issue 4 with the inflitrator cover(well it was an upside plane flying over your head)
Sheer class !
issue 9 the crimbo ed was fave ever i'd need every superlative in the book to describe that one.
Gazunta posted 20-08-2001 01:43 AM GMT
Issue 37...Apollo 18 on the cover.
(Just on a tangent...wouldn't the flag reflected on the spaceman's helmet be backwards, if it relected "the right way around" on the cover image?)
All my c64-owning compadres would be reading Zzap and CU, and each lunchtime would be spent pawing over each page talking about every game mentioned there...it was the bible :)
I wanted to get 35 (?) when I saw it on the shelves (the one with reviews of Out Run and Gauntlet 2...they were 2 of the three first games I bought for my c64 and wanted to see what the reviews were...thumbing through it at the newsagent revealed that JR's opinion matched mine perfectly) but didn't have the $ at the time (after all, I just bought 2 games!)
So Zzap 37 was the first issue I bought for myself, and it was when I was reading it that for some reason it clicked...the thought dawned on me...these guys actually get paid to play computer games all day. I want to do that.
And that's exactly what I do for a living today :)
Gazunta posted 20-08-2001 01:46 AM GMT
Oh yeah, forgot to mention, I even took #37 with me to E3 this year because I heard Paul Glancey was going to be staying in the same hotel as I was...spent the whole time carrying the beaten up issue in my bag, keeping an eye out for him :)
Andy1 posted 22-08-2001 01:58 AM GMT
Question for Gazunta; just curious...who do you write for?
Gazunta posted 23-08-2001 12:08 AM GMT
Andy: At the moment I write for a IT media syndicate here in Australia (Mostly game reviews) but I've been around...Hotgames.com, Gamers.com, Videogames.com, Pocket Games Magazine...ghost-wrote a feature for N64 magazine once (Prize goes to anyone who can spot it)...
Check out the "What Is A Gazunta" section of www.gazunta.com if you're _really_ interested :)
farhan posted 23-08-2001 01:03 AM GMT
hello, new to the board..Issue#37 (one with the pacland review and a big pacman on cover) was my first encounter with zzap, when my friend showed it to me. He used to buy regularly so i never bought but a few issues. I did bought a lot of back issues (the oldest one i guess was #11 with mercenary review) from a used books shop.
PeeknPoke posted 23-08-2001 10:31 AM GMT
Issue 1, my mates brother brought it in from work with him, and it had Spy Hunter in it, cooooool! Still got that copy too
Lee

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Author	Topic: A question for you all....
Andy	posted 31-05-2001 01:03 AM GMT Someone's already asked the question 'what was your first ever Zzap issue', but what I want to know is; what made you buy that issue in the first place? How did you discover Zzap? I actually had it recommended to me by an Amstrad owner! He was familiar with Crash due to his mate owning a Speccy, and he said that if Zzap was as good as theat, it would be pretty damn groovy. Zzap was better than Crash of course. I bought my first issue (issue 10) the very next day. A mind-altering experience that would stay with me forever.
leet	posted 31-05-2001 10:19 AM GMT A friend had a Speccy, and he used to get CRASH - I remember he had the issue that had four pages removed (due to the injunction by SU) and we were walking along York Rd, Hartlepool, reading it(Specific or what!) Then I was on a day trip to Middlesbrough in Summer 1985 when I bought my first ZZAP!
Mayhem	posted 31-05-2001 10:50 AM GMT My mother bought it for me (issue #19). She'd seen it in the newsagents and thought she'd get it for me to read and buy games with. One of the best choices she ever did :)
waza	posted 31-05-2001 11:12 AM GMT Why? Who can say, it was so long ago BUT I'll never forget the wet Friday night after school, I brought Issue 9 all the way over here in Dunedin, New Zealand. I felt connected, even though it arrived here about 3 months after the UK release... I was hooked ever since till somewhere into the 50s. Ahh great times... even though we have kick arse tech. now and software, there is a certain charm lost from those golden years.... probably the fact every bugger has a grey box at home now and you don't have to press down on the cd/dvd rom to help load a game!
kev	posted 31-05-2001 12:16 PM GMT As i've waffled about this before, thought i'd say it again! Had a good old vic20 but was disapppointed that it wasn't as much fun as my atari 2600, then got lured in to the colourful covers of Crash and Amtix, thankfully bought a copy of ZZAP and hassled Mum and Dad (with help from little bruv) into getting us a c64.......
kev	posted 31-05-2001 12:16 PM GMT what i mean't to say was... the issue with Gunship on the cover!
Mort	posted 31-05-2001 01:51 PM GMT I saw my m8`s issue 1 just before going off to the states on a school exchange trip, did not manage to get the 1st issue but got the second and bartered a couple of games for my m8`s copy of issue 1.
BIGGEST JIM	posted 03-06-2001 10:15 PM GMT Issue 17 was my first, (sept 1986) with "knightgames"-cover. The cover-art grabbed me instantly. Together with the colourful reviews, big screenshots, and cool overall look, I was instantly hooked. There's never been no real competition though, Zzap64 was & is the best computer mag ever published. Ta! Rob de V.
CeeJee	posted 16-06-2001 09:20 PM GMT Somewhere around issue 22. I read them at the local Bruna before that time, thinking that this C64 would be a cool thing to have,
BIGGEST JIM	posted 17-06-2001 07:23 PM GMT Local bruna, local bruna? CeeJee are you Dutch too? Or has globalising really taken off?? Rob de V.
1054462	posted 18-06-2001 11:15 AM GMT My first zzap was bought on a sunny day in Dublin. The cover had blasteroids on it and I remember thinking it looked fairly cool. Also remember being pissed off when I saw the amiga review of dungeon master. I wanted an amiga so bad! Still I read that magazine so many times the pages started to disintegrate!
nemesite	posted 28-06-2001 09:36 AM GMT The issue with the first covertape in 1987. The one with Thalamusic on the back.
CraigG	posted 18-07-2001 01:02 PM GMT #23, with Penn's way OTT editorial. Bought because I was bored with Commodore User.
mazza	posted 19-08-2001 02:12 PM GMT Issue 4 with the inflitrator cover(well it was an upside plane flying over your head) Sheer class ! issue 9 the crimbo ed was fave ever i'd need every superlative in the book to describe that one.
Gazunta	posted 20-08-2001 01:43 AM GMT Issue 37...Apollo 18 on the cover. (Just on a tangent...wouldn't the flag reflected on the spaceman's helmet be backwards, if it relected "the right way around" on the cover image?) All my c64-owning compadres would be reading Zzap and CU, and each lunchtime would be spent pawing over each page talking about every game mentioned there...it was the bible :) I wanted to get 35 (?) when I saw it on the shelves (the one with reviews of Out Run and Gauntlet 2...they were 2 of the three first games I bought for my c64 and wanted to see what the reviews were...thumbing through it at the newsagent revealed that JR's opinion matched mine perfectly) but didn't have the $ at the time (after all, I just bought 2 games!) So Zzap 37 was the first issue I bought for myself, and it was when I was reading it that for some reason it clicked...the thought dawned on me...these guys actually get paid to play computer games all day. I want to do that. And that's exactly what I do for a living today :)
Gazunta	posted 20-08-2001 01:46 AM GMT Oh yeah, forgot to mention, I even took #37 with me to E3 this year because I heard Paul Glancey was going to be staying in the same hotel as I was...spent the whole time carrying the beaten up issue in my bag, keeping an eye out for him :)
Andy1	posted 22-08-2001 01:58 AM GMT Question for Gazunta; just curious...who do you write for?
Gazunta	posted 23-08-2001 12:08 AM GMT Andy: At the moment I write for a IT media syndicate here in Australia (Mostly game reviews) but I've been around...Hotgames.com, Gamers.com, Videogames.com, Pocket Games Magazine...ghost-wrote a feature for N64 magazine once (Prize goes to anyone who can spot it)... Check out the "What Is A Gazunta" section of www.gazunta.com if you're _really_ interested :)
farhan	posted 23-08-2001 01:03 AM GMT hello, new to the board..Issue#37 (one with the pacland review and a big pacman on cover) was my first encounter with zzap, when my friend showed it to me. He used to buy regularly so i never bought but a few issues. I did bought a lot of back issues (the oldest one i guess was #11 with mercenary review) from a used books shop.
PeeknPoke	posted 23-08-2001 10:31 AM GMT Issue 1, my mates brother brought it in from work with him, and it had Spy Hunter in it, cooooool! Still got that copy too Lee