I was a Crash (and later ZZAP! 64 when they moved to Ludlow) reviewer, and this video has taken me on a trip down memory lane (my nickname was Corky at the time, some people still remember me now). I was in my early 20's when I started, so not much older than the teenagers they employed, and it was usually a case of what we liked or disliked about the games went into the magazines. I was Lloyd Mangram a few times (as were a lot of the other people in the office). I miss those days :-)
Zzap! 64 was my bible growing up in the 1980s. It's hard to explain to people who didn't live through this time that magazine reviewers like Gary Penn and Julian Rignall, and computer game programmers such as Tony Crowther, Jeff Minter, Archer Maclean etc. were household names. Many a young teenager grew up in that era not wanting to be a footballer or a rock musician, but wanted instead to be a monthly magazine video game reviewer or a computer games programmer! And Perifractic, I have of course added this video to my Saturday must watch viewing list - looking forward to it!
Think one of the things I enjoy most about your videos is that I can feel your enthusiasm - nothing comes across as being fake or.... plastic. Hard to put into words, but your excitement just oozes out. Thank you for the content, long may it last!
This episode was really well made. I love the old Commodore stuff obviously, but to see those old magazines again, wow the memories. Its sad we never got them here in Florida. The nostalgia feeling was super intense on this episode. BTW I got Space Taxi working on the The c64. I am still struggling to get Red Storm Rising working. It never correctly loads the second disk. But hey, Space Taxi makes it all ok. Your show is really my favorite show on RUclips. Always good. I also like the fact that there is no negativity on your episodes. Always upbeat and a feel good attitude. I look forward to your next episode!!
@@RetroRecipes Everything Johann said in their comment reflects how I feel about your channel. I also love you and Mrs Fratic! Your videos brighten my day! Your furbabies are cute and add to the dynamics of the channel. Never stop what you’re doing! You are my FAVORITE channel on RUclips for all things retro.
I concur James! My dad he was a systems analyst and he never saw the use of me having a computer. Because according to him “computers were there, to solve serious mathematical problems and not to play games and therefore utterly useless in a household”. (So you can see how amazed I was when I found his PDP11 paper tapes and asked what was on it... Oh that’s an Asian computer game Pang Pang Gi, that I saw when I worked in Thailand and coded up... (parents are such hypocrites ;) ) I guess after me begging for 2 whole years, made them sway and bought my cousin’s VIC20 (the first computer I saw and touched). FFWD 3 years. When my dad saw that I was taking a liking to programming and that there was a course in a magazine on 6502 assembler, that I wanted to learn so badly, he talked to my mum. And they agreed to give me an extra fiver a month, to strictly go towards buying the next issue. But the issue also came with a disk of cool demos and little games and reviews: “double win!!!” So my friends that summer of 1987, were the Outrun arcade in the Snackbar (where most of my chore money went) and the C64 and PowerCardridge who’s monitor I used to code assembler. And my dad would bring home the Elektor magazine from his work too. And I have been a subscriber to elektor since I went to college 31 years ago - electronics students got a massive discount. And still to this day every other months when it’s in my letterbox I feel like I’m 17 and ik college again :) As well as the “underground magazine” xeroxed booklets called HacTic (they are now all scanned and online - so cool reading those back after 30 years); it was written/edited by some of the best Dutch Phreakers. Kids these days miss out on so much! The things that made our lives so colourful and I dare argue, far more fun.
I love these types of videos that delve deeper into the history of 80's computing and gaming. It was never just the machines, but a much broader culture. Thank you for capturing a part of that!
Great times to look back on. I was very lucky to have shared my very first computer a C64 with my children as they grew up though the 1980s & 1990s with the Amiga 500 then the PC20 Commodore I saw my very first C64 in 1985 when my wife and I were out walking with the children. I stop to talk to a neighbor and durning the conversation he said that he had bought a C64. He was a Baptist Church Paster and very happy to share his knowledge with me. Six months later I had saved enough money to buy one for myself.
Oliver Frey, what an amazing artist, loved all the covers on Crash and Zzap64. Loved the 80's, amazing computers and Grange Hill Tucker Jenkins and no mobile phones or internet, happy simple times. Oh and great music. Bad fashion though!
I grew up with a magazine called Video Games and Computer Entertainment. But the magazine that really made me fall in love was Electronic Gaming Monthly. I have fond memories of it like you do of ZZAP! 64. Awesome documentary and Oliver Freys art is incredible!
This made me feel so warm and fuzzy! I was actually featured in the Scorelord section. The essence of 90s British ‘cool’. I still get goosebumps when I listen to those old SID soundtracks. Lloyd Mangram for life! 🙏
That's so cool that you've been published in your favorite childhood magazine! I love how the C64 still has so much of a fan base in nostalgia, gamers, restorers/repairers, and talented programmers making new games. I really need to start playing my C64 more! BTW, have you seen the new Virtual Commodore 64 for the Oculus Quest VR headset? The beta version was recently released.
I got a used C64 for Christmas in 1991 along with a huge box of 300 tape games and a massive pile of Zzaps. I also used to get Commodore Format, which had some great stuff in it and a free tape.
Well done Christian! Looking back at the Zzap 64 days, I find that not many people seem to mention Paul Glancey and Gordon Houghton, yet I remember them well.
Damm ..you just brought a nostalgic tear to my eye . I still remember going into whsmiths and seeing the first issue. Talk about bringing back my childhood memories. Meeting Jeff Minter was one of the best childhood memories I have with my C64 . Getting my subscription at the ready . Thanks again .
Crash for me and my brother back in the day I'm afraid. But we ALWAYS had sneak (and not a little envious) peeks at ZZAP! 64 in Martin's Newsagents after school each month. And we compared games reviews on both platforms, which often generated no small amount of controversy! Happy days :) So - congratulations! You continue to keep the spirit of that time alive, which is so worth it: it was a good spirit and a good time.
Though a bit older at that time (and now) I waited every month for Zzap!64 to arrive in Denmark... Andrew Braybrook was the great hero then and the reviewers.. GREAT VIDEO !!!
Very fond memories of all this. I too was 16 and waited every month for the latest copy to be released. Ended up having a complete collection of 3 years worth, all bound in the red plastic binders. Great times. Great video, thanks for the memories
I remember buying the first issue of Zzap 64 when I was just 14 years old. I was so impressed with it that I would cycle to my local newsagent and buy the next issue every month! I loved my C64. I had a 1541 floppy drive and a dot matrix printer for it. I later bought a modem for it and signed up to Compunet. Great times indeed 🙂
Late reply to your comment as I have only just stumbled on this fantastic trip down memory lane! I'm guessing that you had the MPS-801 Dot Matrix Printer. We also got the modem and a subscription to Compunet, I remember actually visiting their HQ with my late father whilst visiting down south! We also lived very close to the shop, 'Trilogic.' that created the 'Expert Cartridge' for the C64 and would visit them most weekends to talk about the latest and greatest developments with the C64. Good times indeed.
There was something in this video that somehow sent me back to my childhood bedroom playing Cauldron II on a cold November night in 1986. You make such lovely videos and it's obvious how much time and care you put into them. I was an avid Crash reader back in the day so Ben Stone and Richard Eddy were my rock stars but I still have a lot of affection for Zapp and Amtix too. Can anyone remember the crossover edition where the reviewers from each magazine had a high score competition? Can anyone remember the Grumlins from Amtix? Anyway, great video and congratulations on becoming a Zzap reviewer, I can't think of anyone else more worthy and deserving.
blimey, similar to your reaction to seeing yourself in an actual issue of Zzap 64, I was surprised and flattered to see you use my comment in your updated (and again fantastic) documentary :) I'm not sure how i missed this update when you released it, but still great to see it now. I did catch the early 2000's Zzap digital editions, and have followed C64 news since then, but through the crazy last few years I somehow managed to miss the new Zzap 64 releases which is a bit gutting given i still have all my old Zzaps. Hopefully I can pick some up down the track, thought it's nice just to know they exist and people are really enjoying them. Overall, this rebirth of Zzap is a bit like time travel, linking us kids of the 80's to us now in ways even Oli Frey's amazing mind couldn't have imagined up....as Freddie would've said, it's a kind of magic.
This video brought back so many memories of my childhood. Seeing those Zzap 64 covers made me feel like a kid again. Oh the days when computer games were sold on playability and not fancy graphics like today. I'm just glad i was there at the beginning seeing the gaming industry evolve.
CONGRATULATIONS, Chris and Dave! This nostalgic revival is really cool! I love that you're both in Zzap and that you're also in this other one! I never knew about Zzap and Crash when I was young but it's fun to hear about it from you, especially with this recap of your old videos about it, with the update!
I was thinking with the launch of the Commander X16 there needs to be a resurrection of a supporting magazine for the hobbyists. RUN and Compute's Gazette were the only two I could ever get my hands on during the life of the C64 and I miss them dearly.
I remember these magazines. I always wanted a Commodore 64 but could never afford them. When I was young I saved my paper round money to buy all my computers. I had a ZX-81 and a ZX Spectrum. I love your channel. It brings back many memories from my child hood. I was two when Pong came out so my child hood was amazing. There were always new consoles and computers coming out not to mention the games. Keep up the good work. Your dedication to retro gaming is appreciated.
I can only imagine what you must have felt in the video at 27:25, must be an impossible dream come true... I got goosebumps hearing your story how your avatar are on the same page as those original ZZAP reviewers... I'm so happy for you to relive that nostalgia! Even though I did not subscribe or have any part of the magazine scene back in the 80's, I had a minor involvement in the gaming industry as a VIC-20 developer in 1982-3 San Jose, CA based Company: Video Wizards (Magical Toy Box) my game titles were: "Muncher", and "Search and Destroy" -- I could only imagine what ZZAP would have done tearing my poor games to death LOL... but that's okay, looking back on it I see that it was a once in a lifetime opportunity no matter what. Cheers!
Hi Ray, thanks for the reply, I own both games you mention for the Vic20, as I collate the Gamebase20 collection. Was there anything unreleased you had?
@@Mayhemerz First of all... I've never talked to someone that owns any of my games, it seems strange to hear after all these years! I hope you enjoy the games. Of course I wrote a lot more games than ever were published, I was toying around with... not completed or as polished. Today all that stuff sits in my storage shed LOL, well, It still looks in good condition though so one day I have hopes to get it out and see if it works. However, there was a third game (unpublished) that didn't get past concept phase, but I pitched to the people at HES, however they wanted smooth scrolling graphics and full 6502 assembly which was beyond my skill level at the time... heck I think I'd be challenged today to get it to run in an unexpanded VIC-20; which BTW were the requirements by all software companies. Then when the C64 came out, the interest in the VIC-20 dropped like a rock and I my life's priorities shifted anyway, I was off to college to get my degrees in computer science and electronics... and the rest, as they say, is history.
It’s So cool that your mum is also a treasured member of the Retro Recipe crew! Thank you MummyFractic for the lovely video of “postman Pet dropping the Zap64 on the mat!” She deserves an RR batch and more important a big hug and a kiss from you.
I received my 2021 Zzap!64 annual two weeks ago with the free sampler of the March 2021 magazine. I read the shortened version of the magazine from cover to cover before even looking at the Annual and loved it so much that I went to Patreon and signed up for the magazine. I also loved your review of Attack of the PETSCII Robots and based on your review (Not Robin's or Andrew's who both seemed to not enjoy the game to me) that I went to the 8-bit guys site and bought the boxed version of the game, so that I would get the user port adapter for a SNES controller. I received my game in just one week which I thought was fast from TX to OH. I agree with you about using the keyboard to play is confusing, but I love it now that my SNES controllers came from ebay. I just wish someone, ANYONE! had mad that adaptor back in 1983 when I got my C64 which I'm still using today (38 years after I got it for Xmas!), so many of the great games would of been so much better with a 2nd, 3rd or 4th button for things like 2nd weapons and JUMPING!
I honestly can't remember how many nights me and a classmate spent krunching in programs from different computer magazines in the early/mid 80's. First on his VIC-20 and later on my C64, listening to Radio Luxemburg as we did so. Don't think I ever saw ZZAP! 64 here in Sweden though. By 1985 I was more into driving around in my car chasing girls anyway. :)
Wow great video. Think can remember the magazines and bought a few. Was a commodore fan lol. And love the great work that you and everyone put into this. Ah yes I remember that ship the Eagles from space 1999. Wow great. 🙂
The C64 was my first Computer, and Zzap! (the italian version) was my magazine. I kept buying Zzap! when I sold my C64 to buy an Amiga. The C64 was the one and only computer I sold in all my life... and I still regret selling it. Maybe someone still have and use it nowadays. I hope so. Years later, my mom bought a C64 for my birthday. She always supported all my projects, from C64 to Virtual Reality. She passed away at the beginning of 2021. The moment when you ask to send the new Zzap! to your old house and your mother take it was touching. Thanks for this video.
I am sorry to hear your news sir. My mother is also unwell. I know a small part of how you must feel. How wonderful that your mother was so supportive. ❤️
@@RetroRecipes Thank you very much for your kind reply, it was totally unexpected, like a beautiful gift! I saw your video and I wrote off-the-cuff, despite my poor english. I'm really sorry about your mother. Your video Is even more touching to me now. I hope she will be fine soon. A little curiosity: my mom somehow knew your channel. I talked her about your projects. For her, you were "the handsome guy with a beautiful wife, who worked in Star Wars, writes music, loves animals and... talks about old computers!" Keep up your inspiring work! Greetings from Italy!
@@fulviosilvanofontana That is incredible. I feel very honoured to have been known by someone who must have been a wonderful woman. Remember, they live on in our hearts and therefore are never truly gone.
@@RetroRecipes Your words made me smile and gave me hope. It wasn't an easy task, these days. So, thank you again! Sometimes retro computing love is something more than nostalgia for our childhood "toys". It's a way to remember people who helped us to follow our dreams. This is what makes our C64 (and Zzap!) so special, I think.
Doing newspapers and magazines during late 80's and beginning of 90's were most of the time a mix of physical handcraft, slow computers, printing, cutting paper, doing lines for hands and gluing stuff together. Not far away like using a copying machine. I spent a couple of days with my friend in his dads office. His dad worked as a graphical designer for the newspaper in the town.
I remember buying Zzap! 64 ages ago, reading reviews of the latest games... So to see one of my own games (Soul Force) in the new mag gives me a bit of a thrill.
Oh yah I also LOVE all your videos!!! (Commodore the most!) and have been watching you since you did the 5 part Apple PIIe with The 8-bit guy, who I was following for a long time and with Jan Beta, who I now follow and love and MindFlareRetro who I now follow and enjoy when he puts out videos. I also want to thank you, because of watching you, around a year and a half ago I bought myself a really nice recapped Amiga 1200 (My wife was not so happy when I had to set up another deck next to my C64's desk) I remember seeing and wanting the Amiga 1000 at a Commodore Computer store my senior year 1985, but I knew I could never afford one with my income from working at McDonalds! I then went to Bamberg West Germany from 1986 -1988 while serving in the U.S. Army and while there I bought at the big PX (Army store) a Commodore 128D and matching monitor (because I was not shipping me beloved C64 and 1702 monitor overseas and then back in two years!). After returning state side I continued to use the 128D for around four more years at different Army bases until 1992 while stationed at Fort Drum NY, I sold the 128D and bought my first of so many PC's (286, 386sx, 386dx, 486-33, 486-66, 486-100, Pentium, PII, P3, P4, i7, i7, i7 & now a i7). It was your Amiga videos that took me back to being 17 & 18 and wishing I had the money for an Amiga, so now that I am much much older and have a lot more pocket money than 1985, I got my Amiga and I love it (My C64 is still my favorite) Thank you!!!!
Being from the US, I didn't know this magazine existed. Of course I had Compute Gazette and Ahoy, but I would have loved to have ZZap as well. It definitely would have pointed me toward many more games.
'kin brilliant! One of the best videos I've seen from you guys. Even though i was an Amstrad Action boy due to having a CPC 464, still loved this recipode! Again, fond memories came flooding back and got me thinking, so.... Jumped on the PC and downloaded CPC Emulator Windows Emulator CPCGamesCD and then... Got hold of ArnoldX and installed it on my XBOX 360, that was my Sunday! Enjoy yours and thanks again, love your work.
Congrats on the new reviewership! Your Avatar makes a lot more sense now -- I know you've talked about it before, but as someone unfamiliar with the magazine, the context was key. Perhaps the founders could use their edgyness to disrupt e-magazines. It's undisputed that glossy paper and ink are irreplaceable, but I still think it's possible to have a better reading experience electronically than an exported PDF.
I had the pleasure of running into Jaz and Gary along with David Whittaker at a Commodore show in maybe 85 or 86 at the Novotel in London, they were at the bar LOL
Great video fella.i was a huge fan of zzap 64 . Loved popping into whsmiths seeing the stunning front artwork , rip oliver fray , got so excited reading the latest news previews Think u made a good point about incorporating amiga stuff just made u wanna upgrade to the newer better hardware The mid to late 80s was an amazing time to be young lad loving his c64 games and zzap 64 was a big part of what made it so exciting Thank u for being one of the many people that's put the huge amount of time and effort into the new versions of zzap 64
I know what is like to be in Zzap! I had the high score for Thundercats on the Scorelord page... what a feeling that was for teenage me. Anyway, the new issue one was fantastic, so I may just have to get the annual now.
Although we didn't have ZZAP in the US, I was quite fond of COMPUTE.... I would spend hours entering the HEX code from the free programs they would include in each magazine... some would be games, sprite demos, SID demos, etc. This brings back a lot of those memories. I did purchase the annual 2020 and 2021 ZZAP as they look amazing! Of course waiting for some of these things to fly across the pond takes a lot of patience . But hopefully I will see them arrive next week :) Cheers!
Great ! I had Speccy chums too, they showed me an ad in Crash saying Zzap was coming, Issue 1 for me then and now Issue 1 of the new one, with a binder too, I love it !
This is great to see as i now have a working c64 and will be putting another together .i always looked forward to the month the spectrum magazines came out and would buy 2 or 3 different mags then spend time going through cover tapes and all the computer shops in swindon that sold 8 bit software nearly every week i would go and spend £10 to £20 on budget range titles i never owned my first c64 that long and sold it to a mate at the time for £70 with the disc drive cassette deck and games i only have one game on cassette for the c64 but hundreds for the bbc/electron and zx spectrum .
Yay. A friend made a custom embroidered Zzap64 T shirt a couple of years ago. It looks awesome, and even here in Canada I get a fair few, love the t shirt, comments. 😃
I used to see Jazz Rignall a lot in my home town of Southend on Sea, It was around the late 80's perhaps early 90's after he left Zzap to join CV&G. CV&G were based in London so I guess it was a short trip from London to Southend for him to visit the arcade's along the seafront. Wish I had plucked up the courage to say hello as he was my favourite reviewer on Zzap and was totally gutted when he left.
Great episode, although I did not have a c64 back in the day and cannot recall seeing the zzp64 magazine here in Australia. My first computer was the Amiga 500, and I got the Amiga Format & Amiga Computing magazines.
Being born and raised (and still living) in Germany, I've never heard of ZZAP or Crash but what you showed here looks awesome! I wish we had that here.
Lovely video. Zzap! Italia was not made just by translated reviews, it was an encompassing publication, with c64, spectrum and console reviews. Around half of it was made with newsfield material, the other half came mostly from "Videogiochi" team, a magazine born in the early 80's. Its spin off, games machine, is still around here!
Fantastic nostalgia trip Perifractic, I used to purchase the Italian version of Zzap and also the original UK one..they should still be somewhere in my parents basement.. I would pay good money for digital collection of the incredible covers.. congratulation for joining the editor team,,,
Sorry, this episode was interesting but really long. However, Perry - you and I have a shared childhood appreciation for something else that was awesome - Space 1999! Now there is something I'd love to see revived.
You need to tell the story of the magazine "Your Computer". That did get imported to the USA, and, gave me something to run on my Timex Sinclair 2068 with a spectrum rom.
Great video about quite simply the best computer magazine ever. It's so great to have it back. Ironically I found my green space 1999 eagle freighter at my parents house recently too! Mine's a bit more beat up than yours!
I used to love Zzap! Even though I had an Atari 800XL, and we didn't have any magazines like Zzap or Crash, we just had "Atari User", and the occasional Atari review in C+VG to look at.
I totally missed out on the Commodore 64 gaming scene, I was a bit too young and got into the Amiga scene a bit late too... there is a theme here... I am going to be a part of this resurgence in retro gaming. It is tons of fun for me today and I haven't had a magazine prescription in years.
Man i was 11 when i got my first Zzap think it was issue 5 (september 85) as it was my birthday and i had just got my C64. After that i never missed an issue it was a must have, i'd walk almost 3 miles (bus in the winter ofc) to get a copy from WHSmiths. The art work for the cover always blew me away and the hints and tips became a life line for a game or 2 haha. But come 1990 i made the jump to the amiga an not long after stopped getting Zzap. Great video as always as it was great to walk down memory lane an hey it even had a dad joke in the mix, you guys take it easy and roll on the next video. Oh and super big congrats with the mag ofc :-)
Congratulations on your reviewer post! Still waiting for my copy of the new ZZAP! 64 Annual. Hope it arrives soon Space 1999 was a great show. As a kid I drew those Eagle spacecraft all the time! I couldn't build a good one with the Lego kits I had then unfortunately.
@@RetroRecipes Wow, you're good... my copy DID just arrive... maybe it was already here when you replied and I didn't know it yet. It's chock-full of crazy content! Good fun.
Fun fact - the WHSmith branch shown briefly at 3:32 is not real - it's a film set created specifically for Black Mirror's Bandersnatch interactive episode, which was located in Croydon town centre a few years ago. If you look closely you can see that when this quick snippet was filmed the set wasn't quite complete. :-) I was working nearby at the time, so walked past this a couple of times a day for about a month, so got to see it gradually be put together. The fake store they created there was completely authentic - it even had a top-40 albums display for the mid-80s, as well as a charts section for computer games, exactly like a Smiths from that period.
Incredibly well researched. My school friends got into drawing because of the artwork of these magazines. Surprised they sold 55-80 thousand copies which I think is not that high.
HUZZAH! My annual arrived in the Mail this week and am currently enjoying it ... well not right now ... right now I'm watching this and typing .... but you get the point. :P
I think that this design even influenced computer magazines in Sweden, like the magazine Datormagazin (Computer magazine). Maybe directly or indirectly. Reading these kinds of magazines were like eating sweets.
Have to say I do remember a "annual review" section in a December issue, where Jaz and Gary blatantly said that one of the reviews (a tennis game) were deliberately altered to make them far more positive and giving it the highest score possible,
i remember buying the first issue and it was much different than the rest of C64 mags back then , a fun , down to the point reviews ( made buying games less of a hassle and waste of time and $$ ) 👍😉
I was a Crash (and later ZZAP! 64 when they moved to Ludlow) reviewer, and this video has taken me on a trip down memory lane (my nickname was Corky at the time, some people still remember me now). I was in my early 20's when I started, so not much older than the teenagers they employed, and it was usually a case of what we liked or disliked about the games went into the magazines. I was Lloyd Mangram a few times (as were a lot of the other people in the office). I miss those days :-)
That’s incredible. No doubt I read some of your stuff, including in my friend’s Crash issues. Thank you for your contribution to our childhoods.
Thanks for watching this brief history of ZZAP! 64. If you’re glad ZZAP! is back, subscribe at: zzapmagazine.co.uk 🎉
Subscribed! I'll make sure to giggle like a teenager when it arrives
I can never again see that Commodore logo without thinking "Chicken Lips 16". Thanks - that has actually enriched my life!
Zzap! 64 was my bible growing up in the 1980s. It's hard to explain to people who didn't live through this time that magazine reviewers like Gary Penn and Julian Rignall, and computer game programmers such as Tony Crowther, Jeff Minter, Archer Maclean etc. were household names. Many a young teenager grew up in that era not wanting to be a footballer or a rock musician, but wanted instead to be a monthly magazine video game reviewer or a computer games programmer!
And Perifractic, I have of course added this video to my Saturday must watch viewing list - looking forward to it!
It's so nice to see the original publishers giving their permission for the retro freaks to continue our journeys. Thanks guys!
Think one of the things I enjoy most about your videos is that I can feel your enthusiasm - nothing comes across as being fake or.... plastic. Hard to put into words, but your excitement just oozes out. Thank you for the content, long may it last!
Thank you for your kind words! Means a lot 👍🕹️
This episode was really well made. I love the old Commodore stuff obviously, but to see those old magazines again, wow the memories. Its sad we never got them here in Florida. The nostalgia feeling was super intense on this episode. BTW I got Space Taxi working on the The c64. I am still struggling to get Red Storm Rising working. It never correctly loads the second disk. But hey, Space Taxi makes it all ok. Your show is really my favorite show on RUclips. Always good. I also like the fact that there is no negativity on your episodes. Always upbeat and a feel good attitude. I look forward to your next episode!!
Thank you for your kind words! Means a lot 👍🕹️
@@RetroRecipes Everything Johann said in their comment reflects how I feel about your channel. I also love you and Mrs Fratic! Your videos brighten my day! Your furbabies are cute and add to the dynamics of the channel. Never stop what you’re doing! You are my FAVORITE channel on RUclips for all things retro.
@@worldofretrogameplay6963 Thank you for your kind words! Means a lot 👍🕹️
I miss the old computer mags; so many memories!
They’re back so make new ones! 😊 BTW I need your address to send you your ЯR Badge please 👍🕹️ Feel free to email it to me if you’d like one.
@@RetroRecipes I honestly thought I had? Hmmm let me double check 🙂
I concur James! My dad he was a systems analyst and he never saw the use of me having a computer. Because according to him “computers were there, to solve serious mathematical problems and not to play games and therefore utterly useless in a household”. (So you can see how amazed I was when I found his PDP11 paper tapes and asked what was on it... Oh that’s an Asian computer game Pang Pang Gi, that I saw when I worked in Thailand and coded up... (parents are such hypocrites ;) )
I guess after me begging for 2 whole years, made them sway and bought my cousin’s VIC20 (the first computer I saw and touched). FFWD 3 years.
When my dad saw that I was taking a liking to programming and that there was a course in a magazine on 6502 assembler, that I wanted to learn so badly, he talked to my mum. And they agreed to give me an extra fiver a month, to strictly go towards buying the next issue. But the issue also came with a disk of cool demos and little games and reviews: “double win!!!”
So my friends that summer of 1987, were the Outrun arcade in the Snackbar (where most of my chore money went) and the C64 and PowerCardridge who’s monitor I used to code assembler.
And my dad would bring home the Elektor magazine from his work too.
And I have been a subscriber to elektor since I went to college 31 years ago - electronics students got a massive discount. And still to this day every other months when it’s in my letterbox I feel like I’m 17 and ik college again :)
As well as the “underground magazine” xeroxed booklets called HacTic (they are now all scanned and online - so cool reading those back after 30 years); it was written/edited by some of the best Dutch Phreakers.
Kids these days miss out on so much! The things that made our lives so colourful and I dare argue, far more fun.
I love these types of videos that delve deeper into the history of 80's computing and gaming. It was never just the machines, but a much broader culture. Thank you for capturing a part of that!
I’m glad you like these. They never get the same sort of views as other subjects but I really enjoy making these deep dives. 👍🕹️
Great times to look back on. I was very lucky to have shared my very first computer a C64 with my children as they grew up though the 1980s & 1990s with the Amiga 500 then the PC20 Commodore I saw my very first C64 in 1985 when my wife and I were out walking with the children. I stop to talk to a neighbor and durning the conversation he said that
he had bought a C64. He was a Baptist Church Paster and very happy to share his knowledge with me. Six months later I had saved enough money to buy one for myself.
Oliver Frey, what an amazing artist, loved all the covers on Crash and Zzap64. Loved the 80's, amazing computers and Grange Hill Tucker Jenkins and no mobile phones or internet, happy simple times. Oh and great music. Bad fashion though!
I grew up with a magazine called Video Games and Computer Entertainment. But the magazine that really made me fall in love was Electronic Gaming Monthly. I have fond memories of it like you do of ZZAP! 64. Awesome documentary and Oliver Freys art is incredible!
This made me feel so warm and fuzzy! I was actually featured in the Scorelord section. The essence of 90s British ‘cool’. I still get goosebumps when I listen to those old SID soundtracks. Lloyd Mangram for life! 🙏
That's so cool that you've been published in your favorite childhood magazine! I love how the C64 still has so much of a fan base in nostalgia, gamers, restorers/repairers, and talented programmers making new games. I really need to start playing my C64 more!
BTW, have you seen the new Virtual Commodore 64 for the Oculus Quest VR headset? The beta version was recently released.
Thank you! I feel cool!
Yes I've seen that VR thing 👍🕹️
Welcome onboard. I write for the main Fusion magazine each month. It's been great fun to be part of these great Retro magazines.
I got a used C64 for Christmas in 1991 along with a huge box of 300 tape games and a massive pile of Zzaps. I also used to get Commodore Format, which had some great stuff in it and a free tape.
Well done Christian! Looking back at the Zzap 64 days, I find that not many people seem to mention Paul Glancey and Gordon Houghton, yet I remember them well.
Damm ..you just brought a nostalgic tear to my eye . I still remember going into whsmiths and seeing the first issue. Talk about bringing back my childhood memories. Meeting Jeff Minter was one of the best childhood memories I have with my C64 . Getting my subscription at the ready . Thanks again .
Crash for me and my brother back in the day I'm afraid. But we ALWAYS had sneak (and not a little envious) peeks at ZZAP! 64 in Martin's Newsagents after school each month. And we compared games reviews on both platforms, which often generated no small amount of controversy! Happy days :)
So - congratulations! You continue to keep the spirit of that time alive, which is so worth it: it was a good spirit and a good time.
Just joined. Amazing!
God my brother's going to be stoked when he hears about this :D
What an outstanding history lesson on ZZAP! 64 Thank you.
Though a bit older at that time (and now) I waited every month for Zzap!64 to arrive in Denmark... Andrew Braybrook was the great hero then and the reviewers.. GREAT VIDEO !!!
Very fond memories of all this. I too was 16 and waited every month for the latest copy to be released. Ended up having a complete collection of 3 years worth, all bound in the red plastic binders. Great times. Great video, thanks for the memories
I remember buying the first issue of Zzap 64 when I was just 14 years old. I was so impressed with it that I would cycle to my local newsagent and buy the next issue every month! I loved my C64. I had a 1541 floppy drive and a dot matrix printer for it. I later bought a modem for it and signed up to Compunet. Great times indeed 🙂
Late reply to your comment as I have only just stumbled on this fantastic trip down memory lane!
I'm guessing that you had the MPS-801 Dot Matrix Printer. We also got the modem and a subscription to Compunet, I remember actually visiting their HQ with my late father whilst visiting down south!
We also lived very close to the shop, 'Trilogic.' that created the 'Expert Cartridge' for the C64 and would visit them most weekends to talk about the latest and greatest developments with the C64. Good times indeed.
There was something in this video that somehow sent me back to my childhood bedroom playing Cauldron II on a cold November night in 1986. You make such lovely videos and it's obvious how much time and care you put into them. I was an avid Crash reader back in the day so Ben Stone and Richard Eddy were my rock stars but I still have a lot of affection for Zapp and Amtix too. Can anyone remember the crossover edition where the reviewers from each magazine had a high score competition? Can anyone remember the Grumlins from Amtix? Anyway, great video and congratulations on becoming a Zzap reviewer, I can't think of anyone else more worthy and deserving.
Wow Thank you for your kind words. Means a lot! 👍🕹
This brought back memories. My mum used to buy me both Crash and Zzap 64 every month. What I'd give for a time machine to go back to those days ❤
blimey, similar to your reaction to seeing yourself in an actual issue of Zzap 64, I was surprised and flattered to see you use my comment in your updated (and again fantastic) documentary :) I'm not sure how i missed this update when you released it, but still great to see it now. I did catch the early 2000's Zzap digital editions, and have followed C64 news since then, but through the crazy last few years I somehow managed to miss the new Zzap 64 releases which is a bit gutting given i still have all my old Zzaps. Hopefully I can pick some up down the track, thought it's nice just to know they exist and people are really enjoying them. Overall, this rebirth of Zzap is a bit like time travel, linking us kids of the 80's to us now in ways even Oli Frey's amazing mind couldn't have imagined up....as Freddie would've said, it's a kind of magic.
Well you got here in the end that’s all that matters 😉
Love your videos, always get that nostalgic feeling.
This video brought back so many memories of my childhood. Seeing those Zzap 64 covers made me feel like a kid again. Oh the days when computer games were sold on playability and not fancy graphics like today. I'm just glad i was there at the beginning seeing the gaming industry evolve.
Thanks Christian for being part of ZZap going forwards, and the mentions in the vid!
It’s an honour and a privilege sir! 🙏🕹🙏
Great video Perri! Well done! Congrats on getting in the Annual and Zzap micro magazine!
CONGRATULATIONS, Chris and Dave! This nostalgic revival is really cool! I love that you're both in Zzap and that you're also in this other one! I never knew about Zzap and Crash when I was young but it's fun to hear about it from you, especially with this recap of your old videos about it, with the update!
Thanks!!
@@RetroRecipes: Absolutely, sir! I totally get why they knew you'd be great there!
(Oh gosh, now I'm gushing, haha!)
This was excellent!
Thank you for the history lesson into Zzap64.
Zzap! is the best mag of all time so you are as honoured as you make out. Thanks for another great RR!
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@@RetroRecipes Where is the C&VG comeback?
I was thinking with the launch of the Commander X16 there needs to be a resurrection of a supporting magazine for the hobbyists. RUN and Compute's Gazette were the only two I could ever get my hands on during the life of the C64 and I miss them dearly.
I remember these magazines. I always wanted a Commodore 64 but could never afford them. When I was young I saved my paper round money to buy all my computers. I had a ZX-81 and a ZX Spectrum. I love your channel. It brings back many memories from my child hood. I was two when Pong came out so my child hood was amazing. There were always new consoles and computers coming out not to mention the games. Keep up the good work. Your dedication to retro gaming is appreciated.
Yeah, my first issue arrived some weeks ago to germany, and i read it at the same day, page a page. Because you mentioned it month ago.
Love it!
Thanks for sharing!
I can only imagine what you must have felt in the video at 27:25, must be an impossible dream come true... I got goosebumps hearing your story how your avatar are on the same page as those original ZZAP reviewers... I'm so happy for you to relive that nostalgia! Even though I did not subscribe or have any part of the magazine scene back in the 80's, I had a minor involvement in the gaming industry as a VIC-20 developer in 1982-3 San Jose, CA based Company: Video Wizards (Magical Toy Box) my game titles were: "Muncher", and "Search and Destroy" -- I could only imagine what ZZAP would have done tearing my poor games to death LOL... but that's okay, looking back on it I see that it was a once in a lifetime opportunity no matter what. Cheers!
Thank you. I still have to pinch myself. And thanks for your contribution to the industry at the time 👍🕹️
Hi Ray, thanks for the reply, I own both games you mention for the Vic20, as I collate the Gamebase20 collection. Was there anything unreleased you had?
@@Mayhemerz First of all... I've never talked to someone that owns any of my games, it seems strange to hear after all these years! I hope you enjoy the games. Of course I wrote a lot more games than ever were published, I was toying around with... not completed or as polished. Today all that stuff sits in my storage shed LOL, well, It still looks in good condition though so one day I have hopes to get it out and see if it works. However, there was a third game (unpublished) that didn't get past concept phase, but I pitched to the people at HES, however they wanted smooth scrolling graphics and full 6502 assembly which was beyond my skill level at the time... heck I think I'd be challenged today to get it to run in an unexpanded VIC-20; which BTW were the requirements by all software companies. Then when the C64 came out, the interest in the VIC-20 dropped like a rock and I my life's priorities shifted anyway, I was off to college to get my degrees in computer science and electronics... and the rest, as they say, is history.
It’s So cool that your mum is also a treasured member of the Retro Recipe crew! Thank you MummyFractic for the lovely video of “postman Pet dropping the Zap64 on the mat!”
She deserves an RR batch and more important a big hug and a kiss from you.
Delivering now!… 😊
I received my 2021 Zzap!64 annual two weeks ago with the free sampler of the March 2021 magazine. I read the shortened version of the magazine from cover to cover before even looking at the Annual and loved it so much that I went to Patreon and signed up for the magazine. I also loved your review of Attack of the PETSCII Robots and based on your review (Not Robin's or Andrew's who both seemed to not enjoy the game to me) that I went to the 8-bit guys site and bought the boxed version of the game, so that I would get the user port adapter for a SNES controller. I received my game in just one week which I thought was fast from TX to OH. I agree with you about using the keyboard to play is confusing, but I love it now that my SNES controllers came from ebay. I just wish someone, ANYONE! had mad that adaptor back in 1983 when I got my C64 which I'm still using today (38 years after I got it for Xmas!), so many of the great games would of been so much better with a 2nd, 3rd or 4th button for things like 2nd weapons and JUMPING!
Agreed! Glad you liked it!
I honestly can't remember how many nights me and a classmate spent krunching in programs from different computer magazines in the early/mid 80's. First on his VIC-20 and later on my C64, listening to Radio Luxemburg as we did so. Don't think I ever saw ZZAP! 64 here in Sweden though. By 1985 I was more into driving around in my car chasing girls anyway. :)
I understand people have the right to "like" or "not like" a video, but who would "not like" a Retro Recipes video? Good Lord! Haha! We love you guys!
Thank you for your kind words! Means a lot 👍🕹️
Wow great video. Think can remember the magazines and bought a few. Was a commodore fan lol. And love the great work that you and everyone put into this. Ah yes I remember that ship the Eagles from space 1999. Wow great. 🙂
I was a Crash reader since issue 1. While on holiday in the UK a few years ago I made a pilgrimage to Ludlow. Lovely town, well worth a visit.
The C64 was my first Computer, and Zzap! (the italian version) was my magazine. I kept buying Zzap! when I sold my C64 to buy an Amiga. The C64 was the one and only computer I sold in all my life... and I still regret selling it. Maybe someone still have and use it nowadays. I hope so. Years later, my mom bought a C64 for my birthday. She always supported all my projects, from C64 to Virtual Reality. She passed away at the beginning of 2021. The moment when you ask to send the new Zzap! to your old house and your mother take it was touching. Thanks for this video.
I am sorry to hear your news sir. My mother is also unwell. I know a small part of how you must feel.
How wonderful that your mother was so supportive. ❤️
@@RetroRecipes Thank you very much for your kind reply, it was totally unexpected, like a beautiful gift! I saw your video and I wrote off-the-cuff, despite my poor english. I'm really sorry about your mother. Your video Is even more touching to me now. I hope she will be fine soon. A little curiosity: my mom somehow knew your channel. I talked her about your projects. For her, you were "the handsome guy with a beautiful wife, who worked in Star Wars, writes music, loves animals and... talks about old computers!" Keep up your inspiring work! Greetings from Italy!
@@fulviosilvanofontana That is incredible. I feel very honoured to have been known by someone who must have been a wonderful woman. Remember, they live on in our hearts and therefore are never truly gone.
@@RetroRecipes Your words made me smile and gave me hope. It wasn't an easy task, these days. So, thank you again! Sometimes retro computing love is something more than nostalgia for our childhood "toys". It's a way to remember people who helped us to follow our dreams. This is what makes our C64 (and Zzap!) so special, I think.
Doing newspapers and magazines during late 80's and beginning of 90's were most of the time a mix of physical handcraft, slow computers, printing, cutting paper, doing lines for hands and gluing stuff together. Not far away like using a copying machine. I spent a couple of days with my friend in his dads office. His dad worked as a graphical designer for the newspaper in the town.
I remember buying Zzap! 64 ages ago, reading reviews of the latest games... So to see one of my own games (Soul Force) in the new mag gives me a bit of a thrill.
Congratulations Sarah! I missed out on being a. Reviewer there! But played it and it’s pretty amazing 👍🕹️
Oh yah I also LOVE all your videos!!! (Commodore the most!) and have been watching you since you did the 5 part Apple PIIe with The 8-bit guy, who I was following for a long time and with Jan Beta, who I now follow and love and MindFlareRetro who I now follow and enjoy when he puts out videos. I also want to thank you, because of watching you, around a year and a half ago I bought myself a really nice recapped Amiga 1200 (My wife was not so happy when I had to set up another deck next to my C64's desk) I remember seeing and wanting the Amiga 1000 at a Commodore Computer store my senior year 1985, but I knew I could never afford one with my income from working at McDonalds! I then went to Bamberg West Germany from 1986 -1988 while serving in the U.S. Army and while there I bought at the big PX (Army store) a Commodore 128D and matching monitor (because I was not shipping me beloved C64 and 1702 monitor overseas and then back in two years!). After returning state side I continued to use the 128D for around four more years at different Army bases until 1992 while stationed at Fort Drum NY, I sold the 128D and bought my first of so many PC's (286, 386sx, 386dx, 486-33, 486-66, 486-100, Pentium, PII, P3, P4, i7, i7, i7 & now a i7). It was your Amiga videos that took me back to being 17 & 18 and wishing I had the money for an Amiga, so now that I am much much older and have a lot more pocket money than 1985, I got my Amiga and I love it (My C64 is still my favorite) Thank you!!!!
You are welcome. Thank you for your service.
Being from the US, I didn't know this magazine existed. Of course I had Compute Gazette and Ahoy, but I would have loved to have ZZap as well. It definitely would have pointed me toward many more games.
'kin brilliant! One of the best videos I've seen from you guys. Even though i was an Amstrad Action boy due to having a CPC 464, still loved this recipode! Again, fond memories came flooding back and got me thinking, so....
Jumped on the PC and downloaded CPC Emulator Windows Emulator CPCGamesCD and then...
Got hold of ArnoldX and installed it on my XBOX 360, that was my Sunday! Enjoy yours and thanks again, love your work.
Just finished reading your section yesterday, was great
Thank you for your kind words! Means a lot 👍🕹️
Congrats on the new reviewership! Your Avatar makes a lot more sense now -- I know you've talked about it before, but as someone unfamiliar with the magazine, the context was key. Perhaps the founders could use their edgyness to disrupt e-magazines. It's undisputed that glossy paper and ink are irreplaceable, but I still think it's possible to have a better reading experience electronically than an exported PDF.
I had the pleasure of running into Jaz and Gary along with David Whittaker at a Commodore show in maybe 85 or 86 at the Novotel in London, they were at the bar LOL
LOL! What were they like back then?
Its great that you are involved in zzap64! 😃👍
Back in the day in Poland most popular magazine was: "C= & A COMMODORE & AMIGA" :). Nice and nostalgic episode:) And now is "Komoda & Amiga"...
Great video fella.i was a huge fan of zzap 64 . Loved popping into whsmiths seeing the stunning front artwork , rip oliver fray , got so excited reading the latest news previews
Think u made a good point about incorporating amiga stuff just made u wanna upgrade to the newer better hardware
The mid to late 80s was an amazing time to be young lad loving his c64 games and zzap 64 was a big part of what made it so exciting
Thank u for being one of the many people that's put the huge amount of time and effort into the new versions of zzap 64
I know what is like to be in Zzap! I had the high score for Thundercats on the Scorelord page... what a feeling that was for teenage me. Anyway, the new issue one was fantastic, so I may just have to get the annual now.
Although we didn't have ZZAP in the US, I was quite fond of COMPUTE.... I would spend hours entering the HEX code from the free programs they would include in each magazine... some would be games, sprite demos, SID demos, etc. This brings back a lot of those memories. I did purchase the annual 2020 and 2021 ZZAP as they look amazing! Of course waiting for some of these things to fly across the pond takes a lot of patience . But hopefully I will see them arrive next week :) Cheers!
Be patient young Padawan…
Thanks for the walk down memory lane in 1987 I used to order Commode 64 disks from UK. My best software was from the UK.
I love this, made a 50 year old bloke feel all warm and fuzzy. Good on you man.
Great ! I had Speccy chums too, they showed me an ad in Crash saying Zzap was coming, Issue 1 for me then and now Issue 1 of the new one, with a binder too, I love it !
This is great to see as i now have a working c64 and will be putting another together .i always looked forward to the month the spectrum magazines came out and would buy 2 or 3 different mags then spend time going through cover tapes and all the computer shops in swindon that sold 8 bit software nearly every week i would go and spend £10 to £20 on budget range titles i never owned my first c64 that long and sold it to a mate at the time for £70 with the disc drive cassette deck and games i only have one game on cassette for the c64 but hundreds for the bbc/electron and zx spectrum .
I have great memories of ZZAP!64 🤩 It was my first c64 magazine, back in the day. I think I still have a few copies somewhere in my parents' house.
yeah, wow.. great episode, its cool to see you in the pages of zzap. i still have 4 of my original issues.
Cool. I'm reviewing issue#1 April 1985. This'll motivate me to keep going.
I subscribed from germany as it only sporadically showed up at the dealer. Liked the demo tapes and cheat listings.
RUN Magazine and Compute's! Gazette were my jam in the usa, back in the day.
Yay. A friend made a custom embroidered Zzap64 T shirt a couple of years ago.
It looks awesome, and even here in Canada I get a fair few, love the t shirt, comments. 😃
It took me over two hours to read this video. It was completely worth it.
Lol!
I pretty much learned to read, reading Zzap 64 magazine as a kid, lol!
I used to see Jazz Rignall a lot in my home town of Southend on Sea, It was around the late 80's perhaps early 90's after he left Zzap to join CV&G. CV&G were based in London so I guess it was a short trip from London to Southend for him to visit the arcade's along the seafront. Wish I had plucked up the courage to say hello as he was my favourite reviewer on Zzap and was totally gutted when he left.
Cool! Did he have the same hair?
@@RetroRecipes Yeah he still had the mullet. Jazz Rignall, the only man in history that looked cool with a mullet.
Amazing! You're leaving the dream for all of us ZZAP kids - thanks as always for the great content.
Great episode, although I did not have a c64 back in the day and cannot recall seeing the zzp64 magazine here in Australia. My first computer was the Amiga 500, and I got the Amiga Format & Amiga Computing magazines.
Oh⚡Zzap! This is really a blast from the past, surprise to be sure, but a welcome one!
Being born and raised (and still living) in Germany, I've never heard of ZZAP or Crash but what you showed here looks awesome! I wish we had that here.
Lovely video. Zzap! Italia was not made just by translated reviews, it was an encompassing publication, with c64, spectrum and console reviews. Around half of it was made with newsfield material, the other half came mostly from "Videogiochi" team, a magazine born in the early 80's. Its spin off, games machine, is still around here!
Never had a C64 so I used to buy C&VG. Had loads of them, and recycled them in 2000 because of lack of space
Fantastic nostalgia trip Perifractic, I used to purchase the Italian version of Zzap and also the original UK one..they should still be somewhere in my parents basement.. I would pay good money for digital collection of the incredible covers.. congratulation for joining the editor team,,,
Thank you! The whole back catalogue is on the Internet Archive 👍🕹️
You just been very amazed for writing the article!
Sorry, this episode was interesting but really long. However, Perry - you and I have a shared childhood appreciation for something else that was awesome - Space 1999! Now there is something I'd love to see revived.
What a day to be alive.
Those reviewers that were fired in 1989 that you mention at 20:30. Yeah, one of them was me!
I always got this magazine. I had a c64 . It was fab
Pretty cool when things come full circle!!
You need to tell the story of the magazine "Your Computer". That did get imported to the USA, and, gave me something to run on my Timex Sinclair 2068 with a spectrum rom.
Great video about quite simply the best computer magazine ever. It's so great to have it back. Ironically I found my green space 1999 eagle freighter at my parents house recently too! Mine's a bit more beat up than yours!
great video, brings back memories from my youth... makes me feel old now lol
I used to love Zzap! Even though I had an Atari 800XL, and we didn't have any magazines like Zzap or Crash, we just had "Atari User", and the occasional Atari review in C+VG to look at.
I totally missed out on the Commodore 64 gaming scene, I was a bit too young and got into the Amiga scene a bit late too... there is a theme here... I am going to be a part of this resurgence in retro gaming. It is tons of fun for me today and I haven't had a magazine prescription in years.
In a way I’m envious you get to enjoy it the way I did as a consumer whereas I’m now a creator. Funny how things come around ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Man i was 11 when i got my first Zzap think it was issue 5 (september 85) as it was my birthday and i had just got my C64. After that i never missed an issue it was a must have, i'd walk almost 3 miles (bus in the winter ofc) to get a copy from WHSmiths. The art work for the cover always blew me away and the hints and tips became a life line for a game or 2 haha. But come 1990 i made the jump to the amiga an not long after stopped getting Zzap. Great video as always as it was great to walk down memory lane an hey it even had a dad joke in the mix, you guys take it easy and roll on the next video. Oh and super big congrats with the mag ofc :-)
Growing up in midwest of US,I never heard of zzap untill 2002. Im Eagerly waiting my first issue.
Congratulations on your reviewer post! Still waiting for my copy of the new ZZAP! 64 Annual. Hope it arrives soon Space 1999 was a great show. As a kid I drew those Eagle spacecraft all the time! I couldn't build a good one with the Lego kits I had then unfortunately.
Thank you so much! Your annual should arrive any second… now!
@@RetroRecipes Wow, you're good... my copy DID just arrive... maybe it was already here when you replied and I didn't know it yet. It's chock-full of crazy content! Good fun.
@@michaellosh1851 I just had a feeling 😉
Fun fact - the WHSmith branch shown briefly at 3:32 is not real - it's a film set created specifically for Black Mirror's Bandersnatch interactive episode, which was located in Croydon town centre a few years ago. If you look closely you can see that when this quick snippet was filmed the set wasn't quite complete. :-)
I was working nearby at the time, so walked past this a couple of times a day for about a month, so got to see it gradually be put together.
The fake store they created there was completely authentic - it even had a top-40 albums display for the mid-80s, as well as a charts section for computer games, exactly like a Smiths from that period.
Ah yes I know this. But there’s just no footage of old Smiths shops so I cheated this in 😉
@@RetroRecipes yeah a wise choice 😁
It was great walking past that set for a month or so - instant nostalgia twice a day.
Incredibly well researched. My school friends got into drawing because of the artwork of these magazines. Surprised they sold 55-80 thousand copies which I think is not that high.
As someone on the spectrum with dog issues it's nice to be able to watch one of your videos again.
Used to eagerly await My CRASH mag to show up at the newsagents all the way in NEW ZEALAND... (ZZAP also made it there as well).
HUZZAH!
My annual arrived in the Mail this week and am currently enjoying it ... well not right now ... right now I'm watching this and typing .... but you get the point. :P
I think that this design even influenced computer magazines in Sweden, like the magazine Datormagazin (Computer magazine). Maybe directly or indirectly. Reading these kinds of magazines were like eating sweets.
Hey! You're keeping up with the commodore!
Always!
Have to say I do remember a "annual review" section in a December issue, where Jaz and Gary blatantly said that one of the reviews (a tennis game) were deliberately altered to make them far more positive and giving it the highest score possible,
i remember buying the first issue and it was much different than the rest of C64 mags back then , a fun , down to the point reviews ( made buying games less of a hassle and waste of time and $$ )
👍😉