Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders
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). It was the second game to use the
SCUMM engine. 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. A version was later ported to the oddball Japanese FM Towns system, this one with
VGA graphics. The game was programmed by Matthew Kane and David Fox.