The first episodes of Zero Punctuation were originally uploaded to YouTube by the series' creator Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw, where they quickly drew attention from the video games community. Shortly afterwards, The Escapist contacted Croshaw and employed him to make more videos for their website.
Initially, the episodes featured different music each week during the introduction and credits. However, in July 2008, the title sequence was remade, and featured a new theme tune which has been used on every episode since.
An announcement trailer for Croshaw's show Zero Punctuation outlining that it will be shown on The Escapist.
Featured a rundown on the seventh generation of gaming consoles
Featured Portal, the only game to date which Yahtzee has universally praised without any negative parts.
Features a two-minute, dubbed segment from Painkiller at the end.
Features a series of still images produced using Garry's Mod, featuring the Heavy, the Medic and the Spy from Team Fortress 2, ordered to tell a story.
A selection of short cartoons created for the GDC. This episode was also the only episode to have profane audio censored, although not removed from the on-screen texts.
Various emails Croshaw received after the less-than-flattering review of Super Smash Bros. Brawl.
Repeat of the 2007-08-29 episode
A review of gaming webcomics, taking several stabs at unnamed web comics, although many believe it was aimed at Ctrl+Alt+Del (a webcomic he claims to have a personal hatred of, having previously called it "the Rubbish King, sitting proudly on a throne of rotting meat" and stating outright "I fucking hate Ctrl+Alt+Del", later noting that "I look at CAD and I see a lot of misdirected potential").