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Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders
1988 · Point-and-click, Adventure · PC, Mac, Linux, DOS, Atari ST, Commodore 64, Amiga, FM Towns · Fujitsu Interactive
Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders carries 1,374 ELO points on GameForever and holds position no. 4,488 in the world ranking, with 29% of duels won out of 63 played. Its best standing outside the world ranking: no. 16 out of 16 (1988).
World rank
no. 4,488
ELO score
1,374
Wins
29%
Duels played
63
About Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders
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 similar in gameplay to Lucasfilm's breakthrough title Maniac Mansion. The player chooses verb commands (Open, Pick Up, Give, etc.; there are no Look or Talk commands) to interact with the game world. The game features up to four controllable protagonists; it is possible to switch between them at any time after they have been introduced, and also exchange inventory items if the characters are in the same location. The game can be described as a "globe-trotting" adventure, since the heroes are required to travel to different exotic countries and even leave the Earth for a while in order to complete it. Some of the puzzles are optional or can be solved in different ways.
The FM Towns version has VGA graphics with 256 colors and higher-quality music and sound effects.
ELO progression
Score moved from 1,500 to 1,374 ELO points over the last 170 days.
Head-to-head
Direct record on the most played match-ups.
- against Primordia 0% 2 duels played · 9 points behind
- against Plug & Play 100% 2 duels played · 10 points behind
- against Unforeseen Incidents 0% 2 duels played · 92 points behind
- against Machinarium 0% 2 duels played · 346 points behind
- against Five Nights at Freddy's 2 50% 2 duels played · 139 points behind
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Around this spot
The games Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders sits between in the world ranking.
- 4,485 Agatha Christie: The ABC Murders 1,374
- 4,486 Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark 1,374
- 4,487 Adventure Island II 1,374
- 4,488 Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders 1,374
- 4,489 Perfect Dark 1,374
- 4,490 Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon 1,374
- 4,491 The Suicide of Rachel Foster 1,374
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The standing
Where Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders ranks
The world rank mixes every family of games. Here is where Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders stands in each of the ones it belongs to. Its best standing, all families considered: 16 out of 16 (1988).
| Ranking | Position | Games competing |
|---|---|---|
| World ranking | 4,488 | 5,046 |
| Point-and-click | 205 | 219 |
| 1980s | 137 | 155 |
| 1988 | 16 | 16 |
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