ZZap 64! - F**k me - I'm Old!!

Ono · Apr 17, 2001

I got this from another forum, but......

http://www.zzap64.co.uk

I loved my old C64 and I use to read this mag religeously for its Sizzler and Gold Medal awards.

Wonder if they ever did one for Crash Magazine?

Perplex · Apr 17, 2001

Amiga Format...ahhhh, those were the days

Wij · Apr 17, 2001

Your Sinclair ruled all

old.Morpheus · Apr 17, 2001

I've got every single Zzap!64 in the loft, in proper binders, the first issue signed by Julian Rignall himself. I must remember to go visit eBay one day

Ono · Apr 17, 2001

Bugger.

Chucked mine away after collecting them for years.

Damn, bugger, fuckety fuck.

Nibbler · Apr 17, 2001

Okay OAP's! Time for your naps!

Wij · Apr 17, 2001

Young people had more respect and were quieter in my day.

/falls off zimmer frame.

old.Morpheus · Apr 17, 2001

I don't care what you all say, Rockford was the best mascot a magazine ever had.

old.Japes · Apr 17, 2001

Oh man, Zzap!64 was my favourite magazine ever - I used to buy it regularly (couldn't afford a sub - hehe), and the best part was the front cover, each hand painted by Oli Frey. The front cover would picture a game subject, and some of them were a bit controversial - who recalls the Forbidden Forest cover? Wow!

I also used to love the portraits they had for the scores - you could tell straight away if a game was any good or not, and some of the looks on the reviewers faces were hilarious.

The mag went downhill after Rignall and Penn left, though..

Who remembers the continuing Terminal Man strip at the back of the mag? Great..

I still have some of my Zzap's in a box somewhere.. Ah, those were the days! I used to wish I could travel to Shropshire to visit the magazine.

Ono · Apr 17, 2001

Oli Frey!....that's his name! He was a great artist.

Thing about ZZAP64 that I remember they were spot on with all their reviews. I ONLY bought C64 games on there review scores.

And I think the publishers were Newsfield.

Nibbler · Apr 17, 2001

/me helps you all across the road

old.Hoff_MisTer · Apr 17, 2001

jeez, I remember it being called: ST/Amiga Format, and I just binned a pile of um. Funny looking back at those adverts, OOOO, RRRRR, extra 512K sir, just pop it underneath sir, do wonders for your gaming sir, OOOO, OOOO

PS. me is old

old.=DI=Penry · Apr 18, 2001

Dont suppose any of you youngsters remember 'BeeBug' then ? (back in the days before glossy covers)

Wij · Apr 18, 2001

I only extend back to v early C & VG

Ono · Apr 18, 2001

Originally posted by Wij
I only extend back to v early C & VG

Not to the days when C&VG had Spectrum code listings in them for owners to type in I bet!

Other great mags I use to buy:

Crash
The One (ST)
Ace
Mean Machines

Zzap 64 was me favourite tho

Wij · Apr 18, 2001

Got all me code from Sinclair User

That was the dullest crap ever !

WPKenny · Apr 18, 2001

I used to collect Your Sinclair. I did buy Crash and Sinclair User every now and again when I had the money and they had decent cover tapes. Remember that? when WHOLE GAMES were given away with magazines! No warez or anything. Not that games were hard to copy in them days...double tape deck anyone?

Beee-boop-beeeeeeeeeee-booplblblblblb-beeeeeeeeeee-boopblblblblblblblblblblbbllbblblblbllbbllbblbl ad infinitum!
A classic noise and one that is drilled into my head! Oh for the days of spectrums. When programmers actually had some talent and improved their code and the game itself rather than say "Oh fuck it, they'll just have to spend shit loads to upgrade and a fuck load of time online to patch it...we don't care!"

Wij · Apr 18, 2001

Originally posted by WPKenny
I used to collect Your Sinclair. I did buy Crash and Sinclair User every now and again when I had the money and they had decent cover tapes. Remember that? when WHOLE GAMES were given away with magazines! No warez or anything. Not that games were hard to copy in them days...double tape deck anyone?

Beee-boop-beeeeeeeeeee-booplblblblblb-beeeeeeeeeee-boopblblblblblblblblblblbbllbblblblbllbbllbblbl ad infinitum!
A classic noise and one that is drilled into my head! Oh for the days of spectrums. When programmers actually had some talent and improved their code and the game itself rather than say "Oh fuck it, they'll just have to spend shit loads to upgrade and a fuck load of time online to patch it...we don't care!"

hear hear. Nuff respeck 2 da Speccy coders ! I never patched any Horace games

Did you think that T'zer out of Your Sinclair was fit or a Hoond ?

Nibbler · Apr 18, 2001

Ok, i wasn't around when Zzap was out, but i have around 200 issues of sega power in the loft. I also used to collect C&VG and Mean Machines. Oh....and the Beano

WPKenny · Apr 18, 2001

I have to say she was a bit of a dog. And so was her pet if I recall. Fnar fnar! (remember that one from the mag?)

Wij · Apr 18, 2001

Nope. Refresh my aging brain-cells.

WPKenny · Apr 18, 2001

It was their funny way of laughing....kind of in a dirty way I guess. Funny buggers...

Wij · Apr 18, 2001

Nah, I know wot fnar means

I thought u were on about her pet. Wot was dat ?

WPKenny · Apr 18, 2001

Here's a picture of her showing off her pussy.

http://homepages.enterprise.net/cavan/ysac/tzer.shtml

Apparently her pet was a cat.

*Kornholio* · Apr 18, 2001

/me hands Ono his pipe and slippers...

Wij · Apr 18, 2001

Originally posted by WPKenny
Here's a picture of her showing off her pussy.

http://homepages.enterprise.net/cavan/ysac/tzer.shtml

Apparently her pet was a cat.

Ah yeh. I remember now. Thx

old.logic7 · Apr 18, 2001

Dayum! I used to read Antic and Analog for my Atari800XL back in the day. I had every issue of Compute! from 1982 to 1988 at one point in time (got most of my games from those magazines).

/me wishes it was 1986.

Wij · Apr 19, 2001

Not me. I don't wanna go through puberty again

old.Kurt_Angle · Apr 19, 2001

No way Crash owned all. But way before crash mag, i was buying a dragon 32 magazine, i can't remember what it was called, but i do remember typing in all those games they listed the basic code for back in the day. They used to take days and the biggest pain in the ass is when you finally finished it and the bleeding thing didn't work

You had to wait a couple of weeks for the next issue to come out with the correct code. Does anyone remember this, one game they listed that was actually in MACHINE code, Boy that was a pain in the ass to get done. But i did it

The game was called 'le mans racing' basically it was a Super monaco clone game top down racer. A good version too.

Testin da Cable · Apr 20, 2001

been looking at the cover-scans on the zzap64 webbeh, they are really amazing

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