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Zzap!64 (Zzap) Magazine

Period of Operation May 1985 - March 1994 Country UK Usual Platform c64, Amiga Staff Katie Hamzah, Gordon Houghton, Chris Anderson, Bob Wade, Gary Penn, Julian Rignall, Steve Cooke, Roger Kean, Paul Sumner (imaginary reviewer), Gary Liddon, Sean Masterson, Richard Eddy, Massimo Valducci, Steve Jarratt, Ciaran Brennen, Philippa Irving, Nik Wild (a.k.a. The Harlequin), Dan Gilbert, Paul Glancey, Gordon Houghton, Matthew Evans, Kati Hamza (a.k.a. Chuck Vomit), Ken D. Fish, Paul Rand Magazine Details Zzap!64 was a computer games magazine covering games on the Commodore International series of computers, especially the Commodore 64. It was published in the UK by Newsfield Publications Ltd and later by Europress Impact. The magazine launched in May 1985 as the sister magazine to CRASH. It focused on the C64 for much of its shelf life, but later incorporated Amiga game news and reviews. Like CRASH, it had a dedicated cult following amongst C64 owners and was well known for its irreverent sense of humour as well as its extensive, detailed coverage of the C64 scene. The magazine adopted an innovative review system that involved the use of the reviewers' faces, artistically rendered by in-house artists Oli Frey and Mark Kendrick, to express their reaction to the games. These eventually evolved into static cartoons as the magazine began catering for a younger market. By 1992, the magazine had changed so dramatically in design and editorial direction that then-publisher Europress decided to relaunch the magazine. Thus, issue 91 of Zzap!64 became issue 1 of Commodore Force, a magazine that itself lasted until March 1994.

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  ZZAP!er 10 months ago.  

Thanks SO MUCH to all the people involved in scanning these issues and making them available online! Bless you! Now my life is complete again!

  Brad 16 months ago.  

Fantastic mag

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