{"id":30469,"date":"2026-01-26T12:11:04","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T12:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/?p=30469"},"modified":"2026-03-31T09:10:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:10:52","slug":"zzap-live-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/collection\/zzap-live-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"ZZAP! Live! 2026 Tickets Now on Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br \/><strong>ZZAP Live!<\/strong> is an annual UK-based event celebrating all things <strong>Coomodore<\/strong>, including he beloved 8-bit <strong>Commodore 64<\/strong> and 16-bit <strong>Commodore Amiga<\/strong> home computers.<br \/><br \/>Run by <strong>Fusion Retro Books<\/strong>, which has also been publishing a revival of the 1980s\/1990s Commodore 64 magazine <strong>ZZAP! 64<\/strong> since 2021, <strong>ZZAP! Live!<\/strong> Is a sister event to <strong>Fusion Retro Books<\/strong>\u2019 Crash Live! Event, on which we have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/crash-live-2025-tickets-on-sale-now\/\">previously reported<\/a>, and which is dedicated to the 8-bit ZX Spectrum home computer, named after the ZX Spectrum magazine \u2018Crash\u2019.<br \/><br \/>In addition to covering each and every <strong>Commodore<\/strong> system, <strong>ZZAP! Live<\/strong> 2026 will also feature a number of other systems on which guests can play games, including <strong>Sega<\/strong>, <strong>Nintendo<\/strong>, and various other systems. There will also be a room of retro arcade games, that will all be free to play.<br \/><br \/><strong>ZZAP! Live!<\/strong> has also moved to a new venue for 2026. This year\u2019s event will be held in <strong>Coventry<\/strong>, at The <strong>Village Hotel,<\/strong> which offers facilities including a swimming pool, gym, spa, Starbucks, and restaurant, and over 200 free car parking spaces. For visitors who intend to stay over, the hotel has more than150 rooms.<br \/><br \/>This year\u2019s <strong>ZZAP! Live!<\/strong> event will run from 8 PM on Friday May 15, 2026, until 9 PM on Saturday May16 2026.<br \/><br \/>Tickets for Z<strong>ZAP! Live!<\/strong> 2026 are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tickettailor.com\/events\/fusionretrobooks\/2032360?_sc=MjI5MDQ3MiM2ODk4Mw%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on sale now<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30516 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/ZZAP-Live-Village-Hotel.png\" alt=\"iZZAP! Live 2026 venue: the Village Hotel\" width=\"630\" height=\"288\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ZZAP Live! is an annual UK-based event celebrating all things Coomodore, including he beloved 8-bit Commodore 64 and 16-bit Commodore Amiga home computers. Run by Fusion Retro Books, which has also been publishing a revival of the 1980s\/1990s Commodore 64 magazine ZZAP! 64 since 2021, ZZAP! Live! Is a sister event to Fusion Retro Books\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":30515,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[152,153,154,155],"class_list":["post-30469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-collection","tag-amiga","tag-commodore-64","tag-fusion-retro-books","tag-zzap-live"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31080,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30469\/revisions\/31080"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}