Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders is a graphic adventure game by Lucasfilm Games released in 1988 for the Commodore 64 and MS-DOS, then for the Amiga and Atari ST in 1989. It was the second game
Cover art by Steve Purcell
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Maniac Mansion is a 1987 graphic adventure video game developed and published by Lucasfilm Games. It follows teenage protagonist Dave Miller as he attempts to rescue his girlfriend Sandy Pantz from a
Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders
…Games released in 1988 for the Commodore 64 and MS-DOS, then for the Amiga and Atari ST in 1989. 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. The story is set in 1997, nine years after the game's…
Ken Macklin's cover artwork depicts five of the playable characters: Syd, Dave, Bernard, Razor, and Jeff.
Ron Gilbert (pictured) co-wrote and co-designed Maniac Mansion with Gary Winnick; they were both puzzle and graphic adventure game fans.
The Main House at Skywalker Ranch inspired the design of Maniac Mansion's setting.
The developers first created the game to run on Commodore 64 home computers (pictured) and later ported it to other platforms.