Content
Like many similar magazines, it contained sections of news, game reviews, previews, tips, help guides, columnists, reader's letters, and cover-mounted disks of game demos. Some memorable features include "highest joystick" where readers would send in a picture of their gaming apparatus of choice at a high location, such as Ben Nevis or the cockpit of a jet (next to the altimeter), a feature where readers could send in a picture of themselves with a celebrity (One such picture had a topless Richard Branson with two young brothers), and "Smack In The Marf", in which readers could send in (obviously faked) pictures of themselves with their injuries.
The magazine was notable for the considerable off-beat adolescent humour and wordplay used throughout the magazine — a continuation of the style first seen in Your Sinclair. Zero is the precursor to the humorous style of writing used in magazines such as PC Zone, and in fact many of the original writers who contributed to Zero went on to submit work for PC Zone.
- OI! (news and views on everything 16-bit)
- Previews (previews plus the ST, Amiga and PC top tens)
- Letters (The readers views and comments given an airing on the ZERO washing line)
- Reviews (accolade – 'Zero Hero' 90+. ratings; Graphics, Sound, Addictiveness, Execution, Overall rating out of 100.)
- Combat Zone (Strategy games)
- Under Wraps (an in depth look at forthcoming games)
- Artifacts (computer graphics expert Alan Tomkins checks out all the latest on graphics software)
- Console Action (The Konix Multi-system revealed, Britain's only mini console magazine at the time)
- Stuff (Er... just a lot of stuff! Like films, videos, anything topical)
- Arcades (Arcade games)
- Deja Vu (New versions of existing titles – now here! On new formats)
- Crystal Tips (Tips, maps, pokes)
- The Price Is Right (budget games section later renamed just 'Budgets')
- Chip Shop Boys (in depth look at people in the industry)
- Adventures (Adventure games)
- Yikes! (The readers page)
Read more about this topic: Zero (video Game Magazine)
Famous quotes containing the word content:
“... the aspiring immigrant ... is not content to progress alone. Solitary success is imperfect success in his eyes. He must take his family with him as he rises.”
—Mary Antin (1881–1949)
“What is most original in a man’s nature is often that which is most desperate. Thus new systems are forced on the world by men who simply cannot bear the pain of living with what is. Creators care nothing for their systems except that they be unique. If Hitler had been born in Nazi Germany he wouldn’t have been content to enjoy the atmosphere.”
—Leonard Cohen (b. 1934)
“Let us have a fair field! This is all we ask, and we will be content with nothing less. The finger of evolution, which touches everything, is laid tenderly upon women. They have on their side all the elements of progress, and its spirit stirs within them. They are fighting, not for themselves alone, but for the future of humanity. Let them have a fair field!”
—Tennessee Claflin (1846–1923)