 zak mckracken and the alien mindbenders ( or ã¶ãã¯ããã¯ã©ãã±ã³ in the japanese version) is a graphical adventure game, originally released in october 1988, published by lucasfilm games (later on known as lucasarts). it was the second game to use the scumm engine, after maniac mansion. the project was led by david fox, with matthew alan kane as the co-designer and co-programmer. like maniac mansion, it was developed for the commodore 64 and later released in 1988 on that system and the ms-dos. an apple ii version was apparently planned, but never released. the following year in 1989, the game was ported to the amiga and atari st, also a ms-dos version with enhanced graphics was released. a 1990 japanese fm-towns computer version was also produced by douglas crockford, which came on a cd-rom, with 256-color graphics and a remastered sampled audio soundtrack. when the fm-towns version is played in japanese text, the redrawn sprites are in japanese animation super deformed style. other japanese illustrations (such as the game cover) were also redrawn for the japanese market; drawn by the artist yuzuki hikaru (å¼æå), whose real name is nishimura tsukasa (è¥¿æå¸).http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/å¼æå å¼æå ==plot== the story is set in 1997, 10 years after the game's production and 50 years after the kenneth arnold ufo sighting. the plot follows zak (full name zachary mckracken), a writer for the national inquisitor, a tabloid newspaper (the name is a thinly veiled allusion to the national enquirer);
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