ZZap! 64 was first launched in 1985, It came out as a fully games orientated magazine at a time when most other Commodore 64 magazines gave only marginal coverage to games. ZZap originally only contained C64 game reviews but by the latter part of 1988 Amiga games were covered from time to time. However, in issue 42 (October 1998), the Amiga became a permanent part of ZZap, well permanent that is until issue 74 (June 1991) when ZZap again returned to it's original format of C64 games only.