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Also known as Zak McKracken

1988 video game

Game details · IGDB

73User score · 40 ratings

Zak McKracken is a tabloid reporter (and not a very good one at that). After having a psychedelic dream one day, Zak realizes that something is wrong -- space aliens are dumbifying the general public through the telephone system. Zak must stop this, but he can't do it alone. After finding a strange crystal, Zak manages to get the help of the anthropologist Annie and her friends, Melissa and Leslie. The four unlikely heroes must now figure out a way to destroy the dumbifying devices and save the Earth. Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders is a third-person puzzle-solving adventure simila…

Released
1988
Genres
Point-and-click, Adventure
Platforms
Commodore C64/128/MAX, Linux, Atari ST/STE, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, DOS, FM Towns, Amiga
Game modes
Single player
Engine
SCUMM
Developer
Lucasfilm Games, Lucasfilm Games
Publisher
Fujitsu Interactive, Lucasfilm Games

Wikidata facts

Instance of
video game
Country of origin
United States
Narrative location
Nepal
Game engine
SCUMM
Designed by
David Fox
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copyright license
freeware
publication date
1988-10-00
input device
computer keyboard
distributed by
Q1486288
language of work or name
American English
title
Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders
set in period
1997
compatible with
Q107542665
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