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  • The Apprentice Thumbnail

    The Apprentice , by Gordon Houghton (yeap, that Gordon!). Hades is dead and the Agency needs a replacement, a new apprentice to carry on the good work, and fortunately for our zombie narrator, his number came up in the Unholy Tombola. Over the next seven days he will act as Death's apprentice, helping him to bring about seven deaths.

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  • The Ultimate History of Video Games Thumbnail

    The Ultimate History of Video Games Inside the Games You Grew Up with but Never Forgot. With all the whiz, bang, pop, and shimmer of a glowing arcade. The Ultimate History of Video Games reveals everything you ever wanted to know and more about the unforgettable games that changed the world, the visionaries who made them, and the fanatics who played them. From the arcade to...

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  • A Brief History of the Future: Origins of the Thumbnail

    A Brief History of the Future: Origins of the Histories of technology usually go one of two ways. Some focus on the science; others emphasise personalities and culture at the expense of technological detail. But engineering professor-cum-Observer columnist John Naughton has written a book that does both. A Brief History of the Future weaves together scientific account and personal an...

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  • Trigger Happy: Videogames and the Entertainme Thumbnail

    Trigger Happy: Videogames and the Entertainme The Edge calls Trigger Happy a "seminal piece of work." For the first time ever, an aficionado with a knowledge of art, culture, and a real love of gaming takes a critical look at the future of our videogames, and compares their aesthetic and economic impact on society to that of film. Thirty years after the invention of the simplest of g...

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  • Masters Of Doom: How two guys created an empi Thumbnail

    Masters Of Doom: How two guys created an empi Masters of Doom' is the true inside story of John Carmack and John Romero, co-creators of the most innovative and notoriously successful video games in history - Doom and Quake. They created an empire, ruled a multi-billion-dollar industry, and provoked a national controversy.

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New ZzapBible

I’m very proud to announce the all new ZzapBibles. Even more content as well as new styling from this century!

ZzapBible Screenshot
ZzapBible Game-centric — search for a game and see every review it ever appeared in.
ZzapBible Classic Review-centric — ideal for compilations, round-ups and ZzapBacks.
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Recent Features
Desert Island 5 1/4’s
A Sensible Chat - Part 1
A Conversation Piece - Greg Ba
A Chat with Andrew Braybrook
Lucasfilm Interviews - Part 2

All Features
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Recent Reviews
Citadel
Super Scramble Simulator
Rick Dangerous
Buggy Boy
IK+ / International Karate +

All Reviews
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Recent Messages
New ZzapBible and Game Page in Announcements, 05 May 2026 Latest Post Icon
Upgrading Forum in Announcements, 15 Mar 2026 Latest Post Icon
Happy 40th Birthday Zzap!64 in Announcements, 29 Apr 2025 Latest Post Icon
Interview with a panel of ex-Newsfie... in General, 27 Apr 2025 Latest Post Icon
Redevelopment of Scans Section in Announcements, 18 Dec 2024 Latest Post Icon
Cameron Davis aka Gazunta in General, 24 May 2024 Latest Post Icon
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Collections
Editorials
Zzap! Rrap
Reviews
The Terminal Man
Walker's Way
Birth of a Paradroid
Mental Procreation
The Making of Lemmings
Hack to the Future Globe icon
Zzap! Megatapes
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
The tapes are now starting to come online
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Misc.
Full Contents
History of Zzap!
Detailed History
Trip to Ludlow
Staff
View all Covers
Zzap Bible
Rrap Message Board
Zzuperstore
Zzap 107 Misc.
Def Tribute to Zzap!64
Early Newfield Photos
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 various magazine scan DVDs 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
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Credits etc.

The Zzap!64 logo and associated images are copyright Oliver Frey 1985 - 2026 and used here with permission.

Get some of his art yourself on the official The Art of Oliver Frey site.

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, Mr. Zzapback for doing the Zzap, ZzapTest, ZzapRrap, ZzapBack logos and Barry Flowers (aka Sixteen Plus) for the Zzuperstore logo.
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News
11 Apr 2026
New ZzapBible and Game Page

I'm very proud to announce not one, but two new versions of the ZzapBible!
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27 Apr 2025
Happy 40th Birthday Zzap!64

Wow, there was been a lot going on for the past while so the date of 11th April completely passed me by and also the big birthday of it! (not helped by the fact that I keep on thinking it's 2026 this year...)
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11 Aug 2019
Board back open after spamming to death

Well that was quite a lot of spam..... Typically, it happened while I was down Internet access for a week.
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04 Dec 2018
Upgrading Forum

Well, that didn't go well. Forum and site was down for a bit this morning when I was trying to upgrade the forum software.
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04 Sep 2015
Majority of Scans Temporary Off-line

The hosting of Gamebox64.com and around 70 of the Zzap! issue scans has been closed, a week or so earlier than I thought. I'm looking into getting new hosting.
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25 Jul 2015
Reset Magazine Zzap! Themed Issue Out Now!

Reset #07 has been released and is downloadable now. The issue pays tribute to Zzap!64 and features stunning original cover art by Anthony Stiller, paying homage to the Zzap No.1 Elite cover by legendary artist Oliver Frey. Inside there are some special guest appearances from ex-Zzap writers and characters, tribute articles, and a feature article about the C64 version of Elite by Anthony Olver of Elite Archives (C64 Elite also celebrates its 30th anniversary and was reviewed in Zzap No.1).
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