{"id":2147,"date":"2013-06-05T21:28:53","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T21:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/megalextoria.wordpress.com\/?p=2147"},"modified":"2021-08-18T17:43:08","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T21:43:08","slug":"zzap-64-september-1987","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/06\/05\/zzap-64-september-1987\/","title":{"rendered":"Zzap! 64, September 1987"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/epnt.ebay.com\/static\/epn-smart-tools.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/magazines\/index.php?twg_album=Computer_Magazines%2FZzap%2Fzzap029&amp;twg_show=zzap2900001.jpg\" class=\"keychainify-checked\">Zzap! 64, September 1987<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"\/magazines\/index.php?twg_album=Computer_Magazines%2FZzap%2Fzzap029&amp;twg_show=zzap2900001.jpg\" class=\"keychainify-checked\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/zzap29000011.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<ins class=\"epn-placement\" data-config-id=\"5d56bbc603cf0a438496beb5\"><\/ins><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I remember how surprised I was when I found out this existed. Why couldn&#8217;t we have a games magazine dedicated to the Commodore 64 here in the States? You would have though there would have been a big enough market for one given that this was the mot popular computer ever. The September 1987 issue of Zzap! 64 includes:<\/p>\n<p>Refined Regulars<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Editorial<\/b> &#8211; Ciaran Brennan tells it like it is<\/li>\n<li><b>Zzap! Rrap<\/b> &#8211; Bursting forth from a heap of unsolicited SAE&#8217;s, Lloyd goes talkabout with the Zzap! readership<\/li>\n<li><b>What&#8217;s New<\/b> &#8211; Britain&#8217;s Brightest Commodore Monthly brings you the gossip from inside the world of the C64<\/li>\n<li><b>The White Wizard<\/b> &#8211; A Rainbird spectacular, featuring Knight Orc and Guild of Thieves&#8230;and who are those shady characters?<\/li>\n<li><b>54 Manoeuvres<\/b> &#8211; Philippa returns to go on the road with Autoduel and to indulge in a spot of gardening with Shard of Spring<\/li>\n<li><b>Zzap! Tips<\/b> &#8211; Play to win with maps of Head Over Heels and The Last Ninja &#8211; not to mention an amazing amount of hints and POKEs<\/li>\n<li><b>Technical Bit In The Middle<\/b> &#8211; Raster interrupts drive Mr. Liddon off the rails<\/li>\n<li><b>Competition Winners<\/b> &#8211; Is your name included?<\/li>\n<li><b>The Scorelord Pontificates<\/b> &#8211; The greatest gamers blow their own trumpets<\/li>\n<li><b>Zzapback<\/b> &#8211; Julian and Steve take a retrospective view at issues eleven and twelve<\/li>\n<li><b>Readers&#8217; Charts<\/b> &#8211; The chart that&#8217;s by the readers and for the readers<\/li>\n<li><b>Previews<\/b> &#8211; Things to come in future issues&#8230;including Yogi Bear from Piranha, Renegade and Athena from Imagine and a profusion of releases from Cascade Games<\/li>\n<li><b>Terminal Man II<\/b> &#8211; Things hot up for Cross and company<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Fashionable Features<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Dedicated Follower<\/b> &#8211; Sega&#8217;s dedicated games console gets the once over<\/li>\n<li><b>Twenty Twenty Vision<\/b> &#8211; Julian Rignall sees eye to eye with Binary Vision&#8217;s Paul Norris<\/li>\n<li><b>Mental Procreation<\/b> &#8211; Andrew Braybrook&#8217;s labours reach their penultimate stage<\/li>\n<li><b>Tamara Knight<\/b> &#8211; Due to overwhelming demand, Mel Croucher&#8217;s trek across the universe reaches its inevitable conclusion<\/li>\n<li><b>Reader Offer<\/b> &#8211; A spectacular shoot &#8217;em up offer &#8211; for your eyes only<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Stars for September<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Zynaps<\/b> &#8211; Hewson&#8217;s latest shoot &#8217;em up sizzles its way across 12 colorful levels<\/li>\n<li><b>Re-Bounder<\/b> &#8211; Gremlin&#8217;s Bounder returns &#8211; meaner than ever and twice as agile<\/li>\n<li><b>California Games<\/b> &#8211; Epyx&#8217;s sunny compilation wins a Gold Medal to wear on the beach<\/li>\n<li><b>Guild of Thieves<\/b> &#8211; Become a part of the criminal underworld with Magnetic Scroll&#8217;s stunning adventure<\/li>\n<li><b>Deceptor<\/b> &#8211; US Gold&#8217;s metamorphising release allows you to become half man, half car and half robot (that&#8217;s three halves isn&#8217;t it???)<\/li>\n<li><b>Street Sports Baseball<\/b> &#8211; Baseball is kid&#8217;s stuff when you play with the Epyx Streetsports gang<\/li>\n<li><b>Star Paws<\/b> &#8211; Catch the Griffin in this race against time from Software Projects<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Crucial Competitions<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Zynaps<\/b> &#8211; have a real-life shoot &#8217;em up courtesy of Hewson<\/li>\n<li><b>Firebird Comp<\/b> &#8211; Win a Bubble Bobble arcade machine of your very own in this major Firebird competition<\/li>\n<li><b>California Games<\/b> &#8211; Become the envy of your street gang, with a host of street-cred sports gear from Epyx<\/li>\n<li><b>PCW 1987<\/b> &#8211; Get in free to this year&#8217;s Personal Computing World Show with one of 50 free tickets!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230;and more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zzap! 64, September 1987 I remember how surprised I was when I found out this existed. Why couldn&#8217;t we have a games magazine dedicated to the Commodore 64 here in the States? You would have though there would have been a big enough market for one given that this was the mot popular computer ever. The September 1987 issue of Zzap! 64 includes: Refined Regulars Editorial &#8211; Ciaran Brennan tells it like it is Zzap! Rrap &#8211; Bursting forth from a heap of unsolicited SAE&#8217;s, Lloyd goes talkabout with the Zzap! readership What&#8217;s New &#8211; Britain&#8217;s Brightest Commodore Monthly brings you the gossip from inside the world of the C64 The White Wizard &#8211; A Rainbird spectacular, featuring Knight Orc and Guild of Thieves&#8230;and who are those shady characters? 54 Manoeuvres &#8211; Philippa returns to go on the road with Autoduel and to indulge in a spot of gardening with Shard of Spring Zzap! Tips &#8211; Play to win with maps of Head Over Heels and The Last Ninja &#8211; not to mention an amazing amount of hints and POKEs Technical Bit In The Middle &#8211; Raster interrupts drive Mr. Liddon off the rails Competition Winners &#8211; Is your name [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,4,16],"tags":[370,473],"class_list":["post-2147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-commodore-64","category-computer-arcana","category-retro-games","tag-c64","tag-commodore-64"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}