Zzap!64

Did the Commodore magazines go just as high?

Zap 64, Newsfield's Commodore title, used a three-person panel for issue 41.

Paul Glancy, Maff Evans and Gordon Houghton gave it 94%.

Commodore User, EMAP's Commodore magazine, gave it 9 out of 10 and a superstar.

Who cheered the sixty-four tape and who stamped on it hard?

Zzap sixty-four, Newsfield’s Commodore sixty-four sister to Crash, scored ninety percent in issue, uh, thirty-one with the Brennan, Rignall, and Jarrett panel.

ACE turned round on the same machine and gave it five hundred out of a thousand.

That is half of Zzap.

Commodore User, EMAP’s Commodore magazine, put Mike Pattenden on eight out of ten.

On the Amstrad, Amstrad Action, Future’s first magazine, hit ninety percent in issue twenty-five, and The Games Machine liked the CPC color at eighty-seven.

Ninety from Zzap and, um, fifty from ACE on the same sixty-four tape is exactly the kind of magazine scrap this show thrives on.

Hold that five hundred because it colors everything after.

How did the 64 and the Amiga compare once the pictures started moving?

The sixty-four looked solid, and Zzap rated it highly, but the Amiga was the show-off.

Zzap called the Batmobile, uh, and Batwing sections out of this world, and you can see why, because the roads and the balloons have a depth the eight bits couldn't manage.

Amiga Format still only gave the whole game ninety, so they weren't completely hypnotized, but for pure spectacle, the Amiga wins.

Spectacle matters on a film license, Lee, because you want it to feel like the poster you had on your wall.

If the Amiga made the Batwing look like the film, that alone sold a few more of those Batman packs.

Time for our marks.

The magazine spread went from Zzap's ninety-seven on the Amiga and ninety-six gold medal on the sixty-four down to Sinclair users' seventy-six on the Spectrum with Crash on ninety-three and Amstrad Action on ninety-four.

We'll start with the Commodore.

Zzap!64 was Newsfield's, uh, Commodore 64 magazine, the sister to Crash, and it was famous for printing the reviewers' little faces next to their opinions.

Zzap! issue, uh, 33 in January '88 gave Tetris 94%.

Over on the Spectrum, Sinclair User, the long-running Spectrum monthly from EMAP, gave it 10 out of 10 and its Classic Award.

Your Sinclair, the cheeky, uh, Spectrum magazine from Dennis Publishing, made it a mega game with nine out of 10.

Time for our scores then.

Quick reminder of the magazines.

Zzap on ninety-four, Sinclair User on ten, Your Sinclair on nine, Crash on seventy-seven, The Games Machine on ninety for the Amiga, and, uh, Amiga Computing on seventy.