Good

• Awesome original covers by artist supremo Oliver Frey.
• Contained many of the best features copied by other magazines such as the Diary of a Game.
• Each review contained at least 2 opinions from different reviewers.
• Not afraid to give poor games low scores.
• Started out with reviews marked out of 100% and never deviated from them.
• Great programmer interviews.
• Very reliable cheats section.
• Massive Christmas editions.
• Combined C64/Amiga reviews were great to compare the 2 versions.
• Black and white cartoon faces of the reviewers showing how excited they were about any particular game.

Bad

• The re-design of issue 74 made the magazine look less professional.
• Dropping Amiga reviews meant the magazine was only going to be around for a few more years.

Trivia

• Issue 79 should have been released for November 1991 when Newsfield found itself in a cash-crisis and the liquidators were called in. Roger Kean (once Zzap editor) and a Newsfield director got together with Oliver Frey and Jonathan Rignall to raise finance through Europress. Europress Impact was formed and Zzap was back for December 1991.

Issue 42 (October 1988)

• Introduction of full Amiga reviews.
• A new logo was introduced which added the word Amiga below C64, but this was not obvious until issue 43 because a spaceship was blasting the old logo!
• Amiga reviews were kept together in their own section near the back of the magazine.

Issue 74 (June 1991)

• Amiga reviews dropped and Zzap becomes a C64 only magazine.
• New layout introduced but sadly looks more like a kiddie magazine.
• Oli Frey's classic black and white faces for the review comments replaced with more cartoony colour versions. Personally I liked the old ones better!