ZZT Magazine Directory

This is magazine content that used to be on ZZT On ZZT. While perusing early AOL-era mags is great fun, some of the content of later magazines either isn't necessarily about ZZTing, is difficult to categorize, or is fossilized drama.

So this page specifically will be on hiatus until I figure out what I'm doing.

I've put listings for the official Tour and Demo files here, as it feels more related to these magazines than it does specifically the how-to stuff in ZZT On ZZT.

DEMO.ZZT

Author: Tim Sweeney

Year: 1991

Description: "An interactive demonstration of the properties of various items, creatures and terrains in ZZT."

Contents

Items

• Items Main Page
  • Ammo
  • Torches
  • Dark Rooms
  • Gems
  • Scrolls
  • Bombs
  • Keys
  • Doors
  • Duplicators
  • Energizers

Creatures

• Creatures Main Page
  • Centipedes
  • Bears
  • Ruffians
  • Lions
  • Tigers
  • Objects
  • Slimes
  • Spinning Guns
  • Pushers
  • Sharks (No subscreen.)

Terrains

• Terrains Main Page
  • Water
  • Forest
  • Solids
  • Breakables
  • Fakes
  • Normals
  • Boulders
  • Invisible walls
  • Sliders
  • Blinkwalls (Blinker)

TOUR.ZZT

Author: Tim Sweeney

Year: 1991

Description: This is a sneak peek at the official ZZT worlds (Town of ZZT, Caves of ZZT, City of ZZT and Dungeons of ZZT), with playable demo boards.

Board appearances

• Town of ZZT
  • The Mixer: Tour, Source
• City of ZZT
  • Bad part of town: Tour, Source
  • The Elevator: Tour, Source
    • (The Tour version of this board has been edited a bit more than the others.)
• Caves of ZZT
  • Engineer Required: Tour, Source
  • Key Puzzle: Tour, Source
• Dungeons of ZZT
  • Kennel: Tour, Source
  • Dungeons I: Tour, Source

ZPower

Author: Carlos Barreto / ZPower Productions

Year: 1995, 1996, 1997

Description: A series of magazines with reviews, mini-games, and advertisements for upcoming games.

ZPower 1

• Museum of ZZT: https://museumofzzt.com/file/z/zpower1.zip?file=ZPOWER1.ZZT

Games reviewed

• Star Wars Vol.1 Heir to the Empire (View game on MoZZT)

• Star Wars Episode IV A New Hope (Couldn't locate on MoZZT, will search AOL Compilation later on)

• Power (Couldn't locate on MoZZT, will search AOL Compilation later on. Author would be ZZTurbo according to review.)

Games advertised

• Space Station Z

(Released as Station Z.)

Engines or How-Tos

• "Apolcalypse Armor", a set of objects that the player encases themselves in.

ZPower 2

Museum of ZZT: https://museumofzzt.com/file/z/zpower2.zip?file=ZPOWER2.ZZT

Games reviewed

• Code Red 1-3

(View game on MoZZT)

• ZZTLand 1

(Couldn't find on MoZZT)

• ZZTLand 2

(Couldn't find on MoZZT)

Games advertised

Space Station Z (Same as issue 1)

(Released as Station Z.)

Engines or How-Tos

An unnamed space shooter mini-game

Other

"ZZT Game Supreme" awards for Code Red and Castle ZaZoomDa.

ZPower 3

Museum of ZZT: https://museumofzzt.com/file/z/ZPOWER3.zip?file=ZPOWER3.ZZT

Games reviewed

• Adventure 1

(This is is "Adventure Part 1: The Adventures of David Daron", as confirmed by a preview board in this magazine matching one in that game.)

(View game on MoZZT)

• Escape From Castle ZaZoomDa

(View game on MoZZT)

• Space Fighter 2000

(Couldn't find on Museum)

Games advertised

Space Station Z

(Released as Station Z.)

A non-interactive battle scene for a game called "The Seven Crystals"

A preview for "Ultra ZZT", which seems to be a set of custom objects to be used in ZZT games. (No relation to ZZT Ultra, a ZZT reimplementation / superset made much later by Chris Allen.) The Seven Crystals was planned to use these objects.

Engines or How-Tos

"Q&A, Problems, Tips". Includes directions on how to upload your game to the AOL archive.

Other

ZPower Hall of Fame, housing trophies for the following:

• Code Red 1-3

• Space Fighter 2000

• Adventure 1

• Escape From Castle ZaZoomDa

ZPower 4

Museum of ZZT: https://museumofzzt.com/file/z/zpower4.zip?file=ZPOWER4.ZZT

Games reviewed

• Ikari

(Couldn't find on Museum)

• Kole's Quest

(Couldn't find on Museum)

• Legend of Brandonia

(View game on MoZZT)

• Planetary Defense Station

(Couldn't find on Museum)

• Starship

(The game author is redacted in this review, but this Starship matches the title and is close to the file size listed.)

• Barney

(Couldn't find on Museum.)

• Caverns of Zeux

(This is the pack-in game for MegaZeux.)

• Live

(Couldn't find on Museum)

• Planetary Defense Station Super

(MegaZeux game, couldn't find on DigialMZX.)

• Sivion

(View game on MoZZT)

Games advertised

• The advertisement board contains a cinema ad for Power II. This game appears to have been completed and is preserved on the Museum.

These games are listed as in development:

Slated for 1995:

• NTBN (MoZZT)
• DigIt (MoZZT)
• Power II (MoZZT)
• Part I of Magik Trilogy (MoZZT)
• The Lost Adventures of ZZTurbo

Slated for 1996:

• Invasion `95
• BattleStations
• Ver1.2 of Space Station Z
• Guardian
• The Sunken Treasure of Atlantis

• Some preview boards of Power II.

• Some information on Sivion MZX here and here.

• A gameplay board ("Ricochet Maze") from Space Station Z.

Engines or How-Tos

• "QA,Problems,Tips"

Other

• The ZPower Trophy Room commemorates the following games:

• Adventure 1 (MoZZT)
• Space Fighter 2000
• Code Red (MoZZT)
• Sivion Gold (MoZZT)
• Caverns of Zeux (MegaZeux) (DigitalMZX)

ZPower 5

The file for this one on the museum seems to be a duplicate of ZPower 4.

ZZTeam

Author: ZZTurbo

Year: 1995, 1996

Description: A magazine with reviews, hints and upcoming game previews.

ZZTeam 1

Museum of ZZT: https://museumofzzt.com/file/z/zzteam1.zip?file=ZZTEAM1.ZZT

Games reviewed

All reviews are located in this object. I couldn't find any of them on the museum site.

• Space Fighter 2000
• Joe 2: Joe Goes to School (The sequel to Joe Goes Skiing)
• Tim's Adventure

Engines or How-Tos

• A hint object lists the ZZT cheat codes.

• A Basic Training room.

Games advertised

• Planet X (Public Domain)

There are a couple of Planet X's on the museum but they don't seem to be associated with this author.

ZZTeam 2

Museum of ZZT: https://museumofzzt.com/file/z/zzteam2.zip?file=ZZTEAM2.ZZT

Games Reviewed

• POWER

(Couldn't find on Museum)

• Destroy Barney 2

(Couldn't find on Museum)

• Mission: Enigma

(View on MoZZT)

• Planet X

(Couldn't find on Museum. Apparently was included with POWER.)

• Station Z

(View on MoZZT)

• Revenge of the Emperor

(Sequel to Planet X. Couldn't find on Museum.)

Other

• Game Room: Maze Craze

Power ZZT

Author: Unknown

Year: Unknown

Description: Seems to be AOL-era one-liner reviews with preview boards for ten games. I could only find entries for a few of them on the Museum of ZZT.

• Museum of ZZT: https://museumofzzt.com/file/p/POWERZZT.ZIP?file=POWERZZT.ZZT

Games reviewed

• Alien Takeover

• Escape From The Isle Of Peril

• Rampage

• Warania

• Escape From Castle ZaZoomDa

• Cave Of Death

• Code Red

• X-Men Adventure

• The Arena

• Crazy Zoo