Zzap! 64 Magazine

Introduction

I no longer have this collection of Zzap! 64 and Commodore Force as I've sold them, they have gone to a very good home in the Netherlands.

As a little mess around, here are all ninety issue in a animation (PNG animated using Javascript), animation speed is 250 and 500 (milliseconds).

Rockford says:- Job Well Done

All cover scan images are between 730k - 1.3MB PNG's.

Zzap! 64 is the best Commodore 64 magazine for news, games and reviews you could trust. This section is dedicated to that magazine.

On this page you will only find front cover scans, if you want reviews, rom images etc... then go to one of the other Zzap! 64 sites listed in the links section.

The Red-Gold logo is a scan edit from the front of the Zzap! 64 binders.

Zzap! 64

Retouching

Overall - 90/90 Issues Completed (100%) - The retouching is finally complete.

Virtually all of the front covers were drawn by Oliver Frey - http://www.oliverfreyart.com/, he also wrote a comic strip called the 'Terminal Man' which was featured in the back pages of the earlier issues.

He also done the front cover art for Amtix (Amstrad Magazine) and Crash (Sinclair Spectrum Magazine) http://www.crashonline.org.uk/, these are both sister magazines to Zzap! 64. Other later cover art was on Commodore Force, Sega Force, Sega Mega Force, Sega Master Force as well as some game box art too, including Creatures, Creatures 2, Heatseaker, Retrograde, Snare and many others.

To show how much work I put into these edits. Here are the before and after shots for Issue 7 and Issue 33.

Cropped Scan Issue No 6 October 1985

After Retouching Issue No 6 October 1985

Raw Scan Issue No 33 January 1988

After Retouching Issue No 33 January 1988

 

Issue 2 was in a very bad way, this issue was given to my brother by one of his old friends from Albany school in Enfield Lock in 1985 (Chris D). As you can imagine the issue was walked around school and read by many people and was in quite a bad way.

Retouching the earlier issues can take a very long time. I know some people are thinking why edit them? Why not just put up the scan and be done with it (like some other sites), I would like this site to be the best quality possible.

Trivia

After Zzap64 ended at Issue 90, Commodore Force took over, this ran for just 16 issues before it too was closed down.

In the centre of issue 10 of Commodore Force they celebrated Zzap's 100th issue (a bit strange don't you think?).

Issue No 41 September 1988 was the last issue to feature the vertical 'Monthly Review for Commodore Soft Ware'.

Issue No 42 October 1988, shows the Katakis ship blowing up the 64 part of the Zzap!64 logo, the following month it was replaced with the C64 Amiga logo.

Issue No 65 September 1990, the last of the C64 Amiga logo, the follow month was back to a boxed Zzap!64 logo, with the sub text 'Commodore Games C64-Console-Amiga', this lasted until Issue No 73 May 1991.

Issue No 74 June 1991 lost the box and was last logo until its demise.

Logo Version 1		Logo Version 2
Logo Version 3		Logo Version 4

Posters

I was photographing all of my Gradius related posters and thought I would take a photo of my original Metro Force 1 poster I bought from Zzap! 64 magazine a very long time ago.

I'm planning on getting it framed someday.

Artwork originally by Oliver Frey on Issue No 3 - July 1985 of Zzap! 64 Magazine.

Zzap!64 - Issues 01 - 90

Issue No 1 May 1985	Issue No 2 June 1985	Issue No 3 July 1985	Issue No 4 August 1985	Issue No 5 September 1985	Issue No 6 October 1985
Issue No 7 November 1985	Issue No 8 December 1985	Issue No 9 January 1986	Issue No 10 February 1986	Issue No 11 March 1986	Issue No 12 April 1986
Issue No 13 May 1986	Issue No 14 June 1986	Issue No 15 July 1986	Issue No 16 August 1986	Issue No 17 September 1986	Issue No 18 October 1986
Issue No 19 November 1986	Issue No 20 December 1986	Issue No 21 January 1987	Issue No 22 February 1987	Issue No 23 March 1987	Issue No 24 April 1987
Issue No 25 May 1987	Issue No 26 June 1987	Issue No 27 July 1987	Issue No 28 August 1987	Issue No 29 September 1987	Issue No 30 October 1987
Issue No 31 November 1987	Issue No 32 December 1987	Issue No 33 January 1988	Issue No 34 February 1988	Issue No 35 March 1988	Issue No 36 April 1988
Issue No 37 May 1988	Issue No 38 June 1988	Issue No 39 July 1988	Issue No 40 August 1988	Issue No 41 September 1988	Issue No 42 October 1988
Issue No 43 November 1988	Issue No 44 December 1988	Issue No 45 January 1989	Issue No 46 February 1989	Issue No 47 March 1989	Issue No 48 April 1989
Issue No 49 May 1989	Issue No 50 June 1989	Issue No 51 July 1989	Issue No 52 August 1989	Issue No 53 September 1989	Issue No 54 October 1989
Issue No 55 November 1989	Issue No 56 December 1989	Issue No 57 January 1990	Issue No 58 February 1990	Issue No 59 March 1990	Issue No 60 April 1990
Issue No 61 May 1990	Issue No 62 June 1990	Issue No 63 July 1990	Issue No 64 August 1990	Issue No 65 September 1990	Issue No 66 October 1990
Issue No 67 November 1990	Issue No 68 December 1990	Issue No 69 January 1991	Issue No 70 February 1991	Issue No 71 March 1991	Issue No 72 April 1991
Issue No 73 May 1991	Issue No 74 June 1991	Issue No 75 July 1991	Issue No 76 August 1991	Issue No 77 September 1991	Issue No 78 October 1991
Issue No 79 December 1991	Issue No 80 January 1991	Issue No 81 February 1992	Issue No 82 March 1992	Issue No 83 April 1992	Issue No 84 May 1992
Issue No 85 June 1992	Issue No 86 July 1992	Issue No 87 August 1992	Issue No 88 September 1992	Issue No 89 October 1992	Issue No 90 November 1992

 

Commodore Force

Inside the back cover of issue 90 of Zzap!64 magazine is this message.

'The End of Zzap 64'

Retouching

Issues 1-8 - 0/10 Retouched (00%)
Issues 9-16 - 0/10 Retouched (00%)

Commodore Force 0/16 Completed (00.00%)

Commodore Force - Issues 01 - 16

Issue No 1 January 1993	Issue No 2 February 1993	Issue No 3 March 1993	Issue No 4 April 1993	Issue No 5 May 1993	Issue No 6 June 1993
Issue No 7 July 1993	Issue No 8 August 1993	Issue No 9 September 1993	Issue No 10 October 1993	Issue No 11 Autumn 1993	Issue No 12 November 1993
Issue No 13 December 1993	Issue No 14 January 1994	Issue No 15 February 1994	Issue No 16 March 1994

 

All images are scanned and retouched by GameStone

 

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