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ZZT in the Media
Reviews
- PC Gamer 19, December 1995 - no further details ATM
- PC Review Issue 11 (September 1992) - ZZT and (repeated) Super ZZT review on pages 134-135; ZZT gets Performance 8/10, Ease of Use 8/10
- PC Review Issue 9 (July 1992) - Super ZZT review on page 133; Performance 9/10, Ease of Use 8/10
Interviews
Tim Sweeney
- From The Past To The Future: Tim Sweeney Talks - a 2009 Gamasutra interview by Benj Edwards, the most expansive interview with regards to ZZT
- Hercules meets Tim Sweeney - a 2000 interview focused entirely on ZZT
Articles
- Before Fortnite, There Was ZZT: Meet Epic’s First Game (How-To Geek, 19th February 2021)
- ZZT's source code has been reconstructed (Retronauts, 17th March 2020)
- Re(?)Considered: ZZT (Retronauts, 28th January 2020)
- Have you played... ZZT? (Rock Paper Shotgun, 23rd October 2019)
- Dig up old custom worlds in the groundbreaking Museum of ZZT (The Obscuritory, 29th August 2017)
- International Jetpack Conference is a free game made in ZZT (PC Gamer, 10th November 2014)
- Epic Classics ships last copy of ZZT (Polygon, 21st November 2013)
Books
- ZZT by Anna Anthropy (Boss Fight Books, 2014)
- Excerpt (Kotaku): Before Gears, before Unreal, there was ZZT
- Retro Gaming Hacks by Chris Kohler (O'Reilly, 12th October 2005) - Chapter 8, “Design Games with ZZT”
- Gaming Hacks by Simon Carless (O'Reilly, 2004) - Chapter 1 describes DreamZZT
Videos
- Preserving Worlds Ep. 2 - ZZT - Interview produced with Dr. Dos for Means TV
Other
- Computer Gaming World #84 (July 1991) - describes ZZT
Tim Sweeney's Twitter posts
Unanswered Questions
- The first interview Tim Sweeney gave was for the German magazine “DOSshareware”, issue 10/92; does it feature anything about ZZT, given the timing?
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