Posted on: April 16, 2025
pegamode
Verified ownerGames: 26 Reviews: 1
awesome game
one of the best pnc adventures of all times ... what a gem
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Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders
Description
It's 1997, and the world is a dumber place than ever... Space Aliens have built a stupidity machine that's slowly reducing everyone's IQ to single digits. 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.
They've taken over the phone company... Sure, it sounds like another one of Zak's tabloid fantasies. But while most people wouldn't believe him, he finds three who don't need convincing--Annie, Head of the Society of Ancient Wisdom, and her friends, Leslie and Melissa, two Yale coeds who traveled to Mars in their modified van. The four of them must piece together fragments of an ancient puzzle, unmask the aliens, and destroy the stupidity machine.
Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders is a classic point-and-click adventure with four controllable characters. Solve puzzles and interact with the crazy world using the old school verb command interface. Go on adventures all across the globe and even into space. If you're looking for an actual globe-trotting adventure from days gone by, you cannot miss with Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders!
They've taken over the phone company... Sure, it sounds like another one of Zak's tabloid fantasies. But while most people wouldn't believe him, he finds three who don't need convincing--Annie, Head of the Society of Ancient Wisdom, and her friends, Leslie and Melissa, two Yale coeds who traveled to Mars in their modified van. The four of them must piece together fragments of an ancient puzzle, unmask the aliens, and destroy the stupidity machine.
Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders is a classic point-and-click adventure with four controllable characters. Solve puzzles and interact with the crazy world using the old school verb command interface. Go on adventures all across the globe and even into space. If you're looking for an actual globe-trotting adventure from days gone by, you cannot miss with Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders!
- Crazy off-the-wall humor.
- Beautiful late 80s pixel graphics, perfect for any retro gamer!
- Challenging, mind-bending mystery!
- No typing required! Just point-and-click to solve puzzles and talk to the crazy characters that live in Zak's world!
Goodies
manual
hintbook
newspaper (German)
newspaper (English)
System requirements
Minimum system requirements:
ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS OF USE REQUIRED TO PLAY
This game is powered by ScummVM
Recommended system requirements:
ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS OF USE REQUIRED TO PLAY
This game is powered by ScummVM
Time to beat
5 hMain
8.5 h Main + Sides
13 h Completionist
6 h All Styles
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User reviews
Posted on: June 25, 2025
terber56_666
Games: 2 Reviews: 1
Toll aber...
Es wäre schön gewesen wenigstens die Texte auf deutsch zu haben. Das war bei meinem alten Spiel so, hier schränkt es den Spielspaß für mich doch sehr ein...
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Posted on: July 15, 2025
mavenquinn
Verified ownerGames: 24 Reviews: 1
Wow! I lov it!
Best game ever! So glad to play this game again!
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Posted on: September 16, 2025
ESS.ER
Verified ownerGames: 73 Reviews: 22
Great old stuff
Imagine it's 1990 and you can play this. Runs well on gog and is stable. Great!
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Posted on: August 5, 2020
kennet0508
Verified ownerGames: 7 Reviews: 1
Old School goodness
2 versions of the game in the F5 menu after launch, both the increased graphical version and the what im guessing is the second itteration of the game (the one i played in my childhood, but im guessing there is 1 earlier version than that aswell) Runs great on my windows 10 laptop, with no issues so far. Old but gold, definetly worth a playthrough!
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