Me and Zzap: Im a Newbie :)
Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 12:59 pm
Hi all.
Oooh, just discovered this site........ cool.
Im 35..... I remember when i was about 11 or 12 lusting after a C64, but all i had at the time was an old Atari VCS. Around 1985 i finally got one.
I used to buy PCW magazine (i still have a pile of them), but it was very high-brow and deep for me.... then one day i saw Zzap in the newsagents and bought it and changed my life forever.
Through Zzap i discovered Jeff Minter (and began a lifelong Pink Floyd obsession), making music and Rob Hubbard (and began a lifelong guitar playing obsession), got caught up in the world of the staff, and the little fun bits of the mag, and generally found a new brand of humour and style of writing. Because of Zzap i got into magazine writing at school and changed my look (i got a flat-top like Gaz).
I still have a mountain of old mags (from those very old PCW's to Zzap, Crash, C user, The One, St/Amiga format, ACE, etc.etc.etc.....) and read them from time to time for a bit of retro fun.
The Commie 64 was the best computer i ever owned, as it really drew me in, and Zzap the best magazine because it was like nothing else at the time (umm.... except Crash......... and later i bought an Amstrad and got into Amtix).
I always wondered what happened after it all went belly up (i remember i stopped buying Zzap when the team changed completely and really didn't like the later episodes)... and now, through this forum, i found out lots of little fun facts.
The best games: Paradroid, Uridium, Ghostbusters (i loved this game), Way of the exploding Fist, Mercenary, Attack of the Mutant Camels.... etc.. there were too many to remember.
I did buy one of those 10 in 1 game packs once, and on it was a space trading game like Elite but more fun, cant remember the name... and also a company who produced about half a dozen really great games (which Jeff Minter loved), but cant remember them either.... they had a game on that compilation too... wish i could remember what it was called.
Anyhoo.... i will write much more soon, i need to go refresh my memory and relive all those years wasted on the C64.
Joe
Oooh, just discovered this site........ cool.
Im 35..... I remember when i was about 11 or 12 lusting after a C64, but all i had at the time was an old Atari VCS. Around 1985 i finally got one.
I used to buy PCW magazine (i still have a pile of them), but it was very high-brow and deep for me.... then one day i saw Zzap in the newsagents and bought it and changed my life forever.
Through Zzap i discovered Jeff Minter (and began a lifelong Pink Floyd obsession), making music and Rob Hubbard (and began a lifelong guitar playing obsession), got caught up in the world of the staff, and the little fun bits of the mag, and generally found a new brand of humour and style of writing. Because of Zzap i got into magazine writing at school and changed my look (i got a flat-top like Gaz).
I still have a mountain of old mags (from those very old PCW's to Zzap, Crash, C user, The One, St/Amiga format, ACE, etc.etc.etc.....) and read them from time to time for a bit of retro fun.
The Commie 64 was the best computer i ever owned, as it really drew me in, and Zzap the best magazine because it was like nothing else at the time (umm.... except Crash......... and later i bought an Amstrad and got into Amtix).
I always wondered what happened after it all went belly up (i remember i stopped buying Zzap when the team changed completely and really didn't like the later episodes)... and now, through this forum, i found out lots of little fun facts.
The best games: Paradroid, Uridium, Ghostbusters (i loved this game), Way of the exploding Fist, Mercenary, Attack of the Mutant Camels.... etc.. there were too many to remember.
I did buy one of those 10 in 1 game packs once, and on it was a space trading game like Elite but more fun, cant remember the name... and also a company who produced about half a dozen really great games (which Jeff Minter loved), but cant remember them either.... they had a game on that compilation too... wish i could remember what it was called.
Anyhoo.... i will write much more soon, i need to go refresh my memory and relive all those years wasted on the C64.
Joe