Cover of Zero from 1991

Zero was a video game magazine in the UK covering home gaming during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Published by Dennis Publishing, 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. Download high resolution version (497x699, 94 KB)COver of Zero magazine, issue 20 (June 1991) This work is copyrighted. ... Download high resolution version (497x699, 94 KB)COver of Zero magazine, issue 20 (June 1991) This work is copyrighted. ... A video game magazine is a magazine that talks about video games on PC, other computers or video game consoles. ... // Events and trends The 1980s marked an abrupt shift towards more conservative lifestyles after the momentous cultural revolutions which took place in the 60s and 70s and the definition of the AIDS virus in 1981. ... // Events and trends The 1990s are generally classified as having moved slightly away from the more conservative 1980s, but keeping the same mind-set. ... In computer science, 16-bit is an adjective used to describe integers that are at most two bytes wide, or to describe CPU architectures based on registers, address buses, or data buses of that size. ...

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. A game demo is a freely distributable, cut-down preview or demonstration (hence the name) version of an upcoming computer or video game. ...

The magazine was notable for the considerable adolescent humour used throughout the magazine, even more so than its competitors.

Zero is the precursor to the style of writing and humour used in magazines such as PC Zone, and in fact many of the original writers in Zero now work in this magazine. PC Zone (founded in 1993) was the first magazine dedicated to IBM compatible computer games to be published in the United Kingdom. ...