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)
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