ZZAP! Live 2025

We are proud to announce our ZZAP! Live 2025 event in collaboration with Arcade Club, Retro Games Ltd, South West Amiga Group and Retro Computer Museum. The ZZAP! Live event will cover each and every Commodore system including the Amiga family.

For the first time the event will be spread over 2 days - this will allow more time for the Q/As and also, in principal, more Commodore fans to attend.

The event comprises of three parts - The main Saturday and Sunday activities, and the Saturday evening event.

Saturday: the day time main event starts at 10:15am and finishes at 5.00pm. You will have access to all that the event has to offer during this time:

• Over 75+ Commodore systems to play games on. Every Commodore system will be represented from the Commodore PET up to the Amiga 4000.
• A Fusion Zone where non-Commodore systems will be available to play: Sega consoles, Playstation, Saturn, N64, DOS gaming and more!
• We have a dedicated Q/A room that will hold up to 160 attendees along with the panel - a selection of talks will take place throughout the day.
• We will have many arcade machines to play on and in addition we will have some LCD pinball machines.
• There will be a fully licenced bar throughout the day, and good value food available to purchase.

Saturday Evening: At around 7pm we will be starting the evening entertainment - "SLAY Radio and Guests".

• The first part of the evening will be a Musician QA session hosted by Peter Clarke
• SLAY Radio live streaming event with Slaygon & Ziona. Boz will also be with us.

Sunday: the day time  event starts at 10:15am and finishes at 5.00pm. You will have access to all that the event has to offer during this time:

• Over 60 Commodore systems to play games on. Every Commodore system will be represented from the Commodore PET up to the Amiga 4000.
• A Fusion Zone where non-Commodore systems will be available to play: Sega consoles, Playstation, Saturn, N64, DOS gaming and more!
• We have a dedicated Q/A room that will hold up to 160 attendees along with the panel - a selection of talks will take place throughout the day.
• We will have many arcade machines to play on and in addition we will have some LCD pinball machines.
• There will be a fully licenced bar throughout the day, and good value food available to purchase.

Guests

We have some great guests lined up including :

• Graftgold (Uridium, Paradroid, Rainbow Islands, Fire and Ice)
  • Andrew Braybrook
  • Steve Turner 
  • Jason Page

• Sensible Software (Wizball, Sensible Soccer, Cannon Fodder)
  • Jon Hare 
  • Stoo Cambridge 

• Ocean Software,
  • Simon Butler
  • Paul Hughes
  • Peter Clarke
  • Mathew Cannon
    
    
• Andy Davidson (Worms on the Amiga)
  
  
• DMA Design
  • Mike Dailly (Lemmings, Lemmings 2, Hired Guns, GTA & lots more)
  • Steve Hammond (Ballistix, C64 Shadow of the Beast, PC Lemmings, Hired Guns story, Level Editor Lynx Lemmings & lots more)
  • Russell Kay (Lemmings, Menace, Hired Guns & lots more)
  • Gary Timmons (Lemmings, Lemmings 2, Lemmings 3, Christmas Lemmings, Holiday lemmings, Oh No! More Lemmings etc. & lots more
    
    
• Incentive Software
  • Rich Hill
  • Paul Gregory

• Frank Gasking - Games That Wern't

We have asked many others and are waiting for confirmation before announcing.

Raffle 

The raffle has become a big thing at our events. This year there will be a number of prizes including a Nubeo Space Invaders Watch - limited to only 150 being produced, this will be a prize that will only go up in value for the lucky winner:

Further prizes include a weekend break at a Luxury Lodge in West Wales with outside hot tub, an arcade machine and more.

Tickets:

Ticket sales will not be refunded or transferred from 1 week before the event and thereafter.

Children Under 3 are FREE - they do not need a ticket.

Tickets will not be sold on the door. All tickets at this time will need to be pre-ordered.

Parking:

The hotel has 70 complimentary free car parking spaces on a first come first served basis. The hotel uses Parking Eye, so if your car is on the hotel premises, then please enter your registration details at the reception.

An overflow car park is across the road and is called Abbey End Car Park. Details of the car park location and fees can be found here: https://www.warwickdc.gov.uk/directory_record/9869/abbey_end_car_park

Hotel Rooms:

The hotel is offerrering a discounted rate for rooms for the event that includes FREE breakgast. 

Please follow this link to book your room: BOOK ROOM

Badges and Event Magazine:

For this event, everyone will get a small token magazine on entry, along with a blank name badge. You can then, if you so wish, write your name on the badge and wear it, thus letting everyone know who you are - and you will know who others are. I think this would be a great way for attendees to actually talk to people who they know online and put a face to a name!