{"id":35287,"date":"2025-04-01T16:44:07","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T20:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/?p=35287"},"modified":"2025-04-09T15:50:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T19:50:26","slug":"zzap-64-april-1992","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2025\/04\/01\/zzap-64-april-1992\/","title":{"rendered":"Zzap! 64 (April 1992)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/magazines\/index.php?twg_album=Computer_Magazines%2FZzap%2Fzzap083&amp;twg_show=zzap830001.jpg\" class=\"keychainify-checked\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/zzap830001-719x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"719\" height=\"1024\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-35288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/zzap830001-719x1024.jpg 719w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/zzap830001-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/zzap830001-768x1094.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/zzap830001-84x120.jpg 84w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/zzap830001.jpg 961w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 719px) 100vw, 719px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"\/magazines\/index.php?twg_album=Computer_Magazines%2FZzap%2Fzzap083&amp;twg_show=zzap830001.jpg\" class=\"keychainify-checked\">Zzap! 64 &#8211; Issue Number 83 &#8211; April 1992<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>I have no doubt this would have been my favorite magazine for a time if it had been available in the U.S. Most of my early game playing experience (after the Atari 2600 of course) was on a Commodore 64. The April 1992 issue includes:<\/p>\n<h1>Features<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Budokan<\/b> &#8211; Review of this fighting game from Electronic Arts. Reminds me a bit of Yie ar Kung Fu.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>The Shoe People<\/b> &#8211; An educational game featuring shoes from First Class\/Gremlin that, as far as I know, never made it to the U.S.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Alien World<\/b> &#8211; A pretty solid sci-fi themed shooter from Hi-Tec.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Indy Heat<\/b> &#8211; A top down racing game that is a follow up to and of the same style as Super Off-Road (except featuring indy cars).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Reviews<\/b> &#8211; In addition to the above games, there are also reviews for 3D Pool, Castle Adventure, Demon Blue, Desert Island, Famous Five, Flippit, Game Over II, Ghouls &#8216;N&#8217; Ghosts, Jimmy&#8217;s Soccer, Messenger, Mansion Quest, Midnight Resistance, Mission X, Moontorc, Q10 Tankbuster, and Zoomerang.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=35290\" class=\"attachment wp-att-35290 keychainify-checked\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/zzap830003-719x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"719\" height=\"1024\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-35290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/zzap830003-719x1024.jpg 719w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/zzap830003-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/zzap830003-768x1094.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/zzap830003-84x120.jpg 84w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/zzap830003.jpg 961w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 719px) 100vw, 719px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Regularz<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Zzap! Zone<\/b> &#8211; Tips for April Fools Day.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Tapeworm<\/b> &#8211; This month&#8217;s cover tap includes the games Uridium and Yabba Dabba Doo!, plus a demo of Space Gun, and pattern making software called Kaleidoscope.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Light Up Your Life!<\/b> &#8211; A competition to win a 5.25&#8243; disk drive.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Stuff<\/b> &#8211; Thalamus to release soccer game; a look at the upcoming movie Hook, and more.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Previews<\/b> &#8211; Previews of Brides of Dracula, Space Crusade, Striker in the Crypts of Chaos, and World Cricket.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>PD File Returns!<\/b> &#8211; A look at a public domain game for the Commodore 64 called Galax-I-Birds II (shoot-em-up).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Whiplash Whispers<\/b> &#8211; Letters from readers about a cartridge version of Battle Command, adventure game coverage, game ratings, and more.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Walter&#8217;s No Wally!<\/b> &#8211; An interview with Walter Pooley, maker of adventure games such as Castle Adventure.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Whiplash Scores<\/b> &#8211; Reader high scores for games such as Boulderdash IV, Creatures, NARC, Midnight Resistance, Super Off-Road, Hudson Hawk, Navy S.E.A.L.S., Paradroid, Smash T.V., Robocop II, Super Space Invaders, and lots of others.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>It&#8217;s Corky!<\/b> &#8211; Tips and cheats for Rainbow Islands, The Jetsons, Logical, Paradroid, Batalyx, and others<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Flashback<\/b> &#8211; A look at older games now available at bargain prices including 3D Pool, Ghouls &#8216;N&#8217; Ghosts, Midnight Resistance, and Game Over II.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Megamix<\/b> &#8211; A look at recent game compilations including 2 Hot 2 Handle (Shadow Warriors, Golden Axe, Total Recall, Super Off-Road) and Multimixx 4 (Gauntlet, The Deeper Dungeons, Guantlet II).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Get Some Brides On Your Back!<\/b> &#8211; A competition featuring Dracula and a leather jacket.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/zzap830068-719x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"719\" height=\"1024\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-35289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/zzap830068-719x1024.jpg 719w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/zzap830068-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/zzap830068-768x1094.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/zzap830068-84x120.jpg 84w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/zzap830068.jpg 961w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 719px) 100vw, 719px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Zzap! 64 &#8211; Issue Number 83 &#8211; April 1992 I have no doubt this would have been my favorite magazine for a time if it had been available in the U.S. Most of my early game playing experience (after the Atari 2600 of course) was on a Commodore 64. The April 1992 issue includes: Features Budokan &#8211; Review of this fighting game from Electronic Arts. Reminds me a bit of Yie ar Kung Fu. The Shoe People &#8211; An educational game featuring shoes from First Class\/Gremlin that, as far as I know, never made it to the U.S. Alien World &#8211; A pretty solid sci-fi themed shooter from Hi-Tec. Indy Heat &#8211; A top down racing game that is a follow up to and of the same style as Super Off-Road (except featuring indy cars). Reviews &#8211; In addition to the above games, there are also reviews for 3D Pool, Castle Adventure, Demon Blue, Desert Island, Famous Five, Flippit, Game Over II, Ghouls &#8216;N&#8217; Ghosts, Jimmy&#8217;s Soccer, Messenger, Mansion Quest, Midnight Resistance, Mission X, Moontorc, Q10 Tankbuster, and Zoomerang. Regularz Zzap! Zone &#8211; Tips for April Fools Day. Tapeworm &#8211; This month&#8217;s cover tap includes the games Uridium and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,4,16],"tags":[471,473,2362,2524],"class_list":["post-35287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-commodore-64","category-computer-arcana","category-retro-games","tag-commodore","tag-commodore-64","tag-retrocomputing","tag-retrogaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35287"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35330,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35287\/revisions\/35330"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}