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	Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders is a graphical adventure game, originally released in 1988, published by LucasArts (known at the time as LucasFilm Games).
		The plot follows Zak, a writer for trash newspaper the National Inquisitor, in his attempt to destroy a machine created by nefarious aliens that is slowly reducing the intelligence of everybody on Earth.
		Originally released on the Commodore 64, it was later ported to the Amiga, Atari ST, and PC with EGA graphics.
	bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/z/za/zak_mckracken_and_the_alien_mindbenders.html (128 words)

	Zak McCracken and the Alien Mindbenders (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Title Zak McCracken and the Alien Mindbenders Game Type Adventure Company Lucasarts Players 1 HD Installable Yes Compatibillity All Submission Joachim Froholt Profiled Reviewer Review This was the first ever point'n'click adventure I ever played and I remember how impressed I was with it back then.
		First only Zak can be controlled, but when he meets Annie, the player can switch to her and the two other girls.
		Zak is a reporter working for a tabloid newspaper.
	www.angusm.demon.co.uk /AGDB/DBM1/ZMcC.html (916 words)

	Commodore 64 games, C64 reviews, downloads, SID tunes ect.
		Zak is a young and promising reporter for the "National Inquisitor", a publication whose headlines are almost as big as the waist-line of the editor.
		First of all, his love life is about as lively as Elvis, and secondly, Zak wants to become a Pulitzer-winning novelist, something which is difficult when working for a tabloid as sleazy as all the members of The National Used-Car Salesman Association put together.
		The quality of the graphics detoriate a little bit when you get into the game, but hey, there are a lot of environments in this game that must be created, and a high number of games would have been gaining a lot of goodwill if their graphics had been as good as these.
	www.lemon64.com /reviews/view.php?gameID=2928 (568 words)

	UGO.com Games - Caponians from Zak McCracken and the Alien Mindbenders - UGO's Guide to the Galaxy
		There are evil alien plans to overthrow the Earth, and then there are machinations of the Caponians.
		Only the heroic efforts of tabloid reporter Zak McCracken kept the aliens’ plan from taking effect and enslaving us all, as well as, coincidentally, revealing the secrets behind the Egyptian pyramids, the "face" on Mars and just what happened to Elvis.
		Then again, if the current state of human mental capacity is any indication, maybe the Mindbenders are winning, after all...
	www.ugo.com /channels/filmtv/features/alienguide/caponians.asp (136 words)

	Mars in fiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A Martian (one of several species encountered) is depicted as a sympathetic, intelligent being who thinks as well as or better than a human, but in a convincingly alien manner (a rare feat at any time, but especially striking for pulp science fiction of that era).
		But when a Viking space probe sends back the picture of an alien creature swinging a stick, a joint US/USSR mission is sent in a hurry to explore the planet, and things develop fast from there.
		Mars is shown as being previously inhabited by an ancient race of aliens who created a machine for producing a breathable atmosphere on the planet.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mars_in_fiction (5665 words)

	Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders for Apple II - MobyGames
		Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders for Apple II - MobyGames
		Zak McKracken is a tabloid reporter (and not a very good one at that).
		Zak must stop this, but he can't do it alone.
	www.mobygames.com /game/apple2/zak-mckracken-and-the-alien-mindbenders (303 words)

	Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders - MobyGames
		Based upon a psychadelic dream, Zak one day realizes that something is wrong -- Space Aliens are dumbifying the general public through the telephone system.
		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.
		Zak is solid in many aspects, and lackluster in many others.
	www.mobygames.com /game/zak-mckracken-and-the-alien-mindbenders (296 words)

	Zak McKracken game details (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Worse yet, the only person who can stop them is Zak McKracken, reporter for the disreputable National Inquisitor, who dreams up stories about carnivorous cantaloupes and vegetarian vampires.
		Zak wil walk over to the dresser and open it.
		Walk Zak to his living room by first openning his bedroom door ("Open door") and then walking through it ("Walk to door").
	www.zaksite.co.uk /details.htm (1887 words)

	ClassicGaming.com: Mailbag (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		There was also Aliens, a first-person shooter (it can be called like that) which basically consisted into constantly turning around to kill whatever tries to have you for dinner.
		Maniac Mansion, Zak McCracken and the Alien Mindbenders, and Cinemaware games were also played over and over again.
		And of course Cinemaware is one of the coolest companies around, because they've released a lot of their old games for free download.
	www.classicgaming.com /mailbag/mail160.shtml (6251 words)

	Pulitzer Prize - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pulitzer Prize for the Novel, became the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
		In the LucasArts graphical adventure game Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders (1988), a journalist named Zack McCracken tries to win the Pulitzer Prize.
		In the ABC soap opera All My Children the character Edmund Grey (John Callahan) was a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pulitzer_Prize (1198 words)

	Adventure Forums - Zac Mccracken and the alien mindbenders
		I had played a few adventures before (mostly text/graphics adventures), but this one really blew me away, because it just felt like you were controlling a real person, who had a real life.
		Oh, and Zak also taught me to hate mazes...
		All posts by users and Adventure Gamers staff members are property of their original author and don't necessarily represent the opinion or editorial stance of Adventure Gamers.
	forums.adventuregamers.com /printthread.php?t=2198 (679 words)

	WomenGamers.Com :: View topic - The Adventures Never End
		From Space Quest to Zak McCracken, fans determined to see the adventure continue have written their own chapters to the sagas.
		German programmer Sascha Borisow devoted hundreds of hours to writing The New Adventures of Zak McCracken and released it under the LucasFan brand.
		A sequel to the 1988 LucasArts title Zak McCracken and the Alien Mindbenders, the game starts where the original left off, following the exploits of the tabloid reporter and game namesake.
	www.womengamers.com /forums/viewtopic.php?t=11688 (193 words)

	Abandonia - Abandonware DOS Games - Download Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders
		This is the second of the amazing Lucas' series of the scumm system adventure games (and my very first click and point adventure game — in my view, that makes it my first real adventure).
		Oh, and since there has been an alien sighting there, you must check this out too.
		Both the squirrel and the aliens are real and it is up to you to stop them (not the squirrel the aliens — who want to make us all stupider than they are — not a really hard task I suppose).
	www.abandonia.com /game.php?ID=315&genre=adventure (417 words)

	Comments
		I can be a geek, too, yes I can.
		I grew up a big fan of those LucasFilm Games like Maniac Mansion and Zak McCracken and the Alien Mindbenders, so these links on Memepool were kind of cool to me. I loved those Sierra Games, too, like Kings Quest, Police Quest, The Black Cauldron, etc, and I still love the Infocom games.
		Infocom is my favorite game company ever, and a lot of people don’t get it at all.
	balloonholocaust.blogdrive.com /comments?id=47 (630 words)

	OKCupid! sweetkiwiii / 21 / f / straight / Newman Lake, Washington, United States (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Games made in the late eighties to the real early nineties are great.
		I die every time I get to play some of the early Lucas Arts adventure games like Monkey Island 1, loom, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and Zak McCracken and the Alien Mindbenders.
		Some of the old sierra games were especially cool namely Quest for Glory 2, and the Kings Quest series.
	www.okcupid.com /profile?tuid=14350333078422817595 (341 words)

	Review: Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders \| Gameology
		It's interesting to compare the two games and think about the direction Lucas Arts was taking its GAGs back in the late 80s.
		All of these intergame references really help to produce a sort of "meta game" across the Lucas Arts library; even though Zak and MM are certainly not "sequels" or the like, there is enough continuity here to make them fit nicely together.
		In short, Zak is a good game that deserves its place in any serious GAG collection.
	www.gameology.org /node/517 (905 words)

	3D Buzz - favourite obscure game
		Plus, when I was about eight or nine, we bought Valhalla for the Spectrum, but it never worked - a little piece of me died after that.
		A firend of mine's favourite game was Zak McCracken and the Alien Mindbenders.
		I have yet to meet a person who played the Money Island series.
	www.3dbuzz.com /vbforum/showthread.php?p=968164 (577 words)

	Moop and Dreadly in The Treasure on Bing Bong Island Review: Just Adventure - Reviews Walkthroughs and AdventureNews!
		He is responsible for the Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion, better known as SCUMM, which changed the face of the adventure game world as we know it.
		He worked in the early days for LucasArts, creating “little known” titles Maniac Mansion, Zak McCracken and the Alien Mindbenders, the Indiana Jones series, Loom, the Monkey Island series, Day of the Tentacle, and Full Throttle.
		Moving on to Humungous and then to Hulabee, he created many of their Putt Putt and Freddie Fish titles [In may ways, I get the impression that Moop and Dreadly is an homage to such 1960’s children’s classic cartoons as Gerald McBoing Boing and Beany and Cecil – Randy].
	www.justadventure.com /reviews/Moop/Moop.shtm (849 words)

	Telltale Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		I think it lacked in some cases vs other LA games.
		oh hey I just remembered zac mccracken and the alien mindbenders.
		but of course you can't compare it to masterpieces like DOTT or Zak...
	www.telltalegames.com /forum/viewthread?thread=6&offset=30 (426 words)

	Maniac Mansion Deluxe - Abandonia forums
		Does this mean that Zak McCracken and the Alien Mindbenders are up next?
		Still liked it, but then again I'm a fan of Zak!!!
		I heard some stuff that it wasn't that great.
	www.abandonia.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=1475 (839 words)

	zac mccracken and the alien mindbenders walkthrough - Adventure Forums
		I am trying to find a walkthrough for zac mccracken and the alien mindbenders.
		I believe that there are different versions of "Zak".
		One (or more) of the 3 walkthru's above should be OK.
	forums.adventuregamers.com /showthread.php?t=3447 (117 words)

	JoeUser.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Numerous alien races each with their own characteristics, ships and even their own theme music.
		John Madden football on the 3DO system looked so realistic at the time as to have players thinking they were watching a live NFL game.
		There was also the Atari Jaquar system, and a great game on it as well: Aliens vs. Predator.
	www.joeuser.com /Articles.asp?AID=109398 (5724 words)

	Catspaw's Guide to the Inevitably Insane
		The games have a similar play style to what MOTAS seems to be, the story a bit richer, the graphics a bit poorer, and the puzzles a little easier (though no more obvious :)
		Among the SCUMM games that I can attest to have enjoyed are Maniac Mansion, Day of the Tentacle, and Zak McCracken And the Alien Mindbenders.
		I hear that Secret Of Monkey Island and its sequels are great, too.
	insanecats.com /cgi-bin/single.py?month=mar04&msg=08 (727 words)

	Computer Games, old and new.. - Brunching UBB
		Tho some of the puzzles made less sense than usual, such as the early-in-the-game Lighter puzzle...
		I already had a thread for quest games (and I think the LucasArts adventures fall under that classification).
		I could only get so far in Zach McCracken because I lost my manual.
	www.brunchma.com /archives/Forum7/HTML/001211.html (3715 words)

	Spaced Out Forum > Computer Games
		As much as I respect Sierra, LucasArts was always the adventure-game company for me. Fortunately for people like me, the fine folks at LucasFan Games (I'd link you, but their site is down) have been cranking out top-notch updates of such classic titles as Maniac Mansion, and Zak McCracken and the Alien Mindbenders.
		Rumour has it their next project is a Raiders of the Lost Ark adventure, but we'll see.
		May 30 2005, 06:58 PM I got Alien Hominid today, absolutely manic game.
	www.spaced-out.org.uk /forums/lofiversion/index.php/t6988-300.html (2027 words)

	ars electronica 2001 -
		[day 5] - also at ORF, as blogged, I change a machine to play 'Zak McCracken' DOS version in Italian (by mistake) and then spend the next hour trying to play through it.
		Congrats to Team Chman (of Banja fame) for winning one of the Golden Nica awards at the prize ceremony.
		We got to be slightly subversive, teaming up with the currently Bjork-touring Lesser of the Tigerbeat6 massif (ya know, Kid606, Blectums..) to change all the net.terminals at the event from the sponsor to more interesting things, such as the Lesser-related 2inches.com (click at yr peril!), C64 emulators, and, uhh, "Zak McCracken And The Alien Mindbenders".
	www.mono211.com /ars-electronica-2k1 (3302 words)

	MAGFest Dance Party - Majestic Mix
		Legend of Zelda: Dungeon + Level 9 Dungeon medley (Or you can use that nifty 12 minute long Zelda thing your Oneup studios had for a little while)
		Zak McCracken and the Alien Mindbenders (Use the C64 version as reference, not the IBM version.
		I would love to hear something out of Maniac Mansion other than the opening theme.
	www.majesticmix.com /forums/showthread.php?t=438 (595 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Tips The Addams Family, Dune, Eye of the Beholder 2, Lure of the Temptress, Monkey Island 2.
		Budget Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (88%), Zac Mckraken and the Alien Mindbenders (74%), Bubble Dizzy (61%), Spellbound Dizzy (54%), Fire and Forget 2 (39%), Pitfighter (68%), Raving Mad Compilation (Rodland, Robocod, Megatwins, 86%), Magic Worlds Compilation (Dragons Breath, Crystals of Arborea, Storm Master, 83%).
		Feature The Magnificent Seven - Part 2 (Programmer's chat), Software Oscars, That was the Year that was (Industry figures reflect on '92 and preview '93), Uridium 2 Tips Assassin, Dizzy, Legend of Kyrandia, Putty, Wing Commander.
	www.jgb.abelgratis.co.uk /AIM/ONE/theoneindex.txt (1234 words)

	What's The First Game You Got When You First Got - GTA Warehouse Forums
		PC - I don't even know - The first game I remember buying myself was Theme Park, but I'm sure I had a fair few games before that
		Atari STe - probably something like Zak McCracken and The Alien Mindbenders, only the second game to use the SCUMM engine I think, and still one of my favourite point and clicks
		I'm not gonna be here from 2nd of July.
	www.gtawh.com /forums/index.php?showtopic=15009 (702 words)

	The Homepage of Raphael Corsoski
		Zelda: A Link to the Past (Nintendo, GBA)
		Zak McCracken and the Alien Mindbenders (Lucasarts, Amiga)
		I find the concept of telling an interactive story very appealing.
	www.mdstud.chalmers.se /~md0corso/games.html (754 words)

	The Adventure Game thread! - Rage3D Discussion Area (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		You haven't played adventure games if you didn't complete Monkey Island 1 nor Loom or Zak McCracken
		I remember thinking how insanly great the graphics was in Monkey island, on my Amiga 500.
		Acctually I tried replaying Zak McCracken and the alien mindbenders not to long ago, the "remake" someone made..
	www.rage3d.com /board/showthread.php?t=33823938 (1818 words)

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