Zzap! (August 1990)

Source: Zzap! – Issue Number 64 – August 1990

While it did on occasion cover the Amiga, Zzap! was primarily a Commodore 64 gaming magazine. Sadly, it was only available in the U.K. (or at least it wasn’t something you could find in the U.S.) I would have loved to have had a gaming magazine specific to the Commodore 64 but we didn’t have anything like that. There were several great Commodore 64 magazines, just none that were exclusively gaming. The August 1990 issue of Zzap! includes:

Frequent Features

Stick With It! – A round-up of available joysticks and other controllers, including the Wico Super Three-Way, Wico Ergostick, Professional 9000 Deluxe, Ultimate Rapidfire, Turbo Pedal, and others.

In the Palm of Your Hand – A look at handheld gaming devices, including the Atari Lynx, Konami Handhelds, and the Game Boy.

Music Maestro – An overview of some of the music software available for the Amiga, including Sonix, Track 24, Music X, and more.

Good as Gold – A look at upcoming games from U.S. Gold, including Snow Strike, Murder, Gold of the Aztecs, and a bunch of AD&D games from SSI.

Regular Regulars

The Word – Movie related games likely coming soon include Days of Thunder, Flight of the Intruder, Robocop 2, Dick Tracy, and otehrs. Plus, news about the upcoming Amiga CDTV and C64GS.

Rrap – Letters from readers about the C64 as a budget gaming machine, Striker, the Zzuperstore, covertapes, disk drives, and more.

Budget – A look at some of the latest budget game releases, including Daley Thomson’s Supertest, Supertrux, Match Day II, A Question of Sport, Escape from Singe’s Castle, Yogi’s Great Escape, Little Puff, and Live and Let Die.

Pig in a Poke – Tips, cheats, and codes for Strider, AMC, Test Drive 2, Crackdown, Snare, Vendetta, Fiendish Freddy’s Big Top O’ Fun, and Retrograde.

Creature Feature – A diary of the making of Creatures.

Previews – Previews of upcoming games, including Time Machine, Satan, F1 Manager, Skid Marks, Stormlord II, Italy Soccer 90, Magic Fly, Shadow of the Beast II, Killing Game Show, Dr. Mallet, Awesome, Incredible Walker, The Spy Who Loved Me, and more.

Chronological Comp

Time for Klax! – A competition in which you can win a Swatch Watch by answering a few questions.

Generation Games

Klax – A new puzzle game from Atari for the Commodore 64 and Amiga.

Turrican – A nice conversion of this vertical shooter for the C64.

Unreal – Probably not the Unreal you are thinking of. This is a Shadow of the Beast like game for the Amiga.

Kick Off 2 – Yet another soccer game. There were like a million of them, particularly in the U.K.

Other reviews include 3D Pinball, AMC, A Question of Sport, Arcade Fruit Machine, Fantastic Soccer, Fire and Brimstone (Amiga), Ghosts ‘N’ Goblins (Amiga), Grimblood (Amiga), Guardian Angel, Heavy Metal, Heavy Metal (Amiga), Hero’s Quest, Kick Off 2, Manhunter 2, Matchday II, Micro Mouse, Overlander, Photon Storm (Amiga), Raster Runner, Skidz, Ski or Die, Sonic Boom, Sonic Boom (Amiga), Sword of Aragon (Amiga), Tie Break (Amiga), and Venom Wing (Amiga).