Editorial

Seventeen years have gone by since the 1ast issue of Zzap!64 was released, and the reviewed games for C64 and Amiga have been obsolete for ten years now. The only way to bring all this back to life again is the Internet.

In our case, we'll take into consideration only Arcade games emulated by Raine, therefore the name "Zzap!Raine". Anyway, for C64 and Amiga and fans of their games (and I'm one of them), no problem: emulators and games do exist for those old and glorious machines. I might have forgetten something... Yes, there was also the ZX Spectrum...

Emulators like Raine have the aim to conserve a part of electronic game history and want to help remembering a time of life for those who lived their youth in the same time with the birth, growth and then the large diffusion of the Arcade (First half of the 70's).

In addition to Zzap!64, we have kept Rockford, the funny character who hung around the magazine pages. The reason of his being is simple: without him, something would be missing in Zzap!Raine! Rockford was the main character of Boulder Dash, released by First Star Software on the C64 and converted by D.E.CO to an Arcade game in 1985.

Well, now, as Chris Anderson said in his first editorial...

Happy zzapping.

Zaxxon1

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