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The Commodore 64 had lots of games. Not all of them are good. In Zapped to the Past, we cast a retrospective eye over those games reviewed in each issue of Zzap!64 magazine.
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Zapped to the Past Episode 236 - The Scares and Scores of John Carpenter (opens the original)
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This week we take a walk on the dark side as we explore the scares and scores of director and composer John Carpenter. We explore his films and examine some of his musical themes that would become as iconic as anything by Williams, Morricone or Hermann.
Zapped to the Past Episode 235 - Commodore Force 5 (opens the original)
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Over 1993 and 1994, some games were released for the Commodore 64 and reviewed in the magazine Commodore Force. In episode Two-Hundred-and-Twenty-Nine of Zapped to the Past, we look at some of those games, including World Championship Squash, All-American Basketball, and Suburban Commando, and wonder why a Japanese folk demon would be eating a banana at a tennis match…
Zapped to the Past Episode 234 - Turn to Page 64... (opens the original)
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This week we take a dive into the world of Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks where YOU were the hero. Starting out as pure fantasy with minotaurs and mazes, they soon encompassed magic, outer space, superheroes and the darkest pits of horror, where anything could happen. It was usually a horrible death, but wasn’t that just part of the fun? Turn to page 64 to find out!
Zapped to the Past Episode 233 - Commodore Force 4 (opens the original)
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Over 1993 and 1994, some games were released for the Commodore 64 and reviewed in the magazine Commodore Force. In episode Two-Hundred-and-Twenty-Nine of Zapped to the Past, we look at some of those games, including Ugh, Crazy Cars 3 and Bee 52.
Zapped to the Past Episode 232 - Battle of the Burly B**tards (opens the original)
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This week we pitch Schwarzenegger against Stallone and ask who provided the most burl for your buck? We look at the films released from 1981 to 1989 from both hunks and dare to answer the question: who was the burliest of them all?
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