Thinking back to mags I miss:
- Classic-era Zzap!64 – the one that taught me magazines could be fun in and of themselves.
- Adam Banks-era MacUser – the best Apple magazine ever created, in no small part through Adam’s wizardry. RIP, Adam.
- Tap! – irreverent and energetic iOS mag, for which I wrote the games section.
- Wireframe – my favourite modern-era games mag, which channelled the energy of classic fare from days past.
There are others, but those four really stick with me.
@matt89015 Yep. I think it properly clicked into place with the move to Ludlow and was firing on all cylinders for some time. For me, issue 44 was the last great hurrah. After that, things were variable for a while and then pretty poor until the death. Hence why a bunch of us brought the mag back from the dead during a moment of madness in 2002. http://www.zzap64.co.uk/cgi-bin/displayissue.pl?issue=107
(There was then one other one-off and then Chris Wilkins fully rebooted the property + he now owns the rights.)
Craig Grannell
Matthew Moloney