Description
Zak McKracken is a tabloid reporter (and not a very good one at that). Based upon a psychadelic dream, Zak one day 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 magic crystal (or some sort of crystal), Zak manages to get the help of Anthropologist, Annie, and her friends, Melissa and Leslie. Between the four characters (all of which you control), you can destroy the dumbifying devices and save the earth. Not too bad for a tabloid reporter.
Alternate Titles
- "Zak McCracken and the Alien Mindbenders" -- Commonly-misspelled title
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The Press Says
| Zzap! |
Mar, 1989 |
90 out of 100 |
90 |
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Trivia
Zak was made with three different styles of graphics: the Commodore 64 multicolor style (low resolution using 256 characters and 16 colors), the higher resolution 16 color version that used bitmaps and finally the 256 color version (same style as Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade) which seems to have only been released in Japan on the Fujitsu FM Towns system.
