Zero (magazine)
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Zero was a video game magazine in the UK, published monthly by Dennis Publishing Ltd. between November 1989 and April 1992. (Actual publication dates were in the preceding month, as usual for UK magazines.) It won the European Computer Magazine of the Year award in 1990, and was also the best-selling multi-format 16-bit computer magazine in the UK.
The launch editor was Gareth Herincx. Reviewers for the launch issue were: Jonathan Davies, Sean Kelly, Duncan MacDonald, David McCandless, Marcus 'Binky' Berkmann, and Matt Bielby.
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), and 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)
The magazine was notable for the considerable off-beat adolescent humour and wordplay used throughout the magazine; 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 in Zero now work in this magazine.
