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Title: Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders
Post by: clockwork on January 17, 2007, 07:41:35 am

Anyone remember this game? Classic Amiga. There's also a sequel I never knew about.

http://www.jcec.co.uk/fmtownsgames.html
http://www.acid-play.com/download/the-new-adventures-of-zak-mckracken/

First site also has Shadow of the Beast. Another classic Amiga.

Title: Re: Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders
Post by: thennomeking on January 17, 2007, 10:00:42 am

To my knowledge there was never an official sequel, though there is a fanmade one, Zax McCracken Between Time and Space.

It was the first game after Maniac Mansion to use the SCUMM engine, right after it was Monkey Island, so it is often forgotten.  Kinda like how The Sting won the oscar between the Godfather 1&2, yet so very few remember it.

If you like that game style I highly recommend The Dig and Indiana Jones Fate of Atlantis.

Title: Re: Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders
Post by: Glaine on January 17, 2007, 08:27:36 pm

I gotta jump in and suggest www.scummvm.org also, awesome engine for running your old scumm based games in. You can even use smoothing effects.

I have nearly every game scummvm can handle on my cab for trackball fun. Monkey Island 3, Full Throttle, Beneath a Steel Sky (free to download and run in scummvm), so many awesome games.

Title: Re: Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders
Post by: clockwork on January 17, 2007, 08:42:05 pm

Sweet. Sounds cool, Glaine.

Title: Re: Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders
Post by: Glaine on January 19, 2007, 09:20:16 am

Just a note, only Beneath a Steel Sky and Flight of the Amazon Queen are free, the rest you still have to buy off ebay or amazon...

Those 2 are on the scummvm.org website though.

Title: Re: Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders
Post by: arcadefever on January 19, 2007, 09:40:43 am

that was the good old time  :cheers:
i use to have that game on ATARI ST ...i have the emulator  ;)

one of the games also that i love to play now and that is for me one of the best platform game ...

rick dangerous  :applaud:

http://rickdangerousflash.free.fr/

Title: Re: Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders
Post by: clockwork on January 20, 2007, 08:21:36 am

You know, speaking of Atari, that was my first computer ever. An Atari 1200XL, bought in 1982. I actually liked it better than the C64. It was much easier to create graphics and games on. Unfortunately, the Atari line flopped (like the Amiga) largely because people assumed they were only game systems and too expensive for that. It's ironic that the gaming and multimedia features these systems, particularly the Amiga, introduced are now the driving force of computers these days. :)

Title: Re: Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders
Post by: Level42 on January 20, 2007, 10:08:19 am

Quite right, my first computer was a 600XL, because I had seen my uncle struggling with his C64 and ultra-slow floppy disk drives. I wouldn't call the Atari 8-bit series a flop though, it was rather succesfull in Europe, although not as succesfull as the C64.

A well, history shows that the "better" system always looses:
VHS-Beta & V2000
C64-Atari 8-bit
Windows-Mac

I've learned so much about computers from that first 8-bitter.... I still have a 130XE and a PAL 800(those are RARE !).

However, ZakMcKrakken was on the ST, not on the 8-bit series...