The New Adventures of Zak McKracken

The New Adventures of Zak McKracken is a fan-made point-and-click adventure inspired by LucasArts' classic Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders. The game continues the spirit of the original with exploration, inventory puzzles, eccentric characters and plenty of comedy. Players travel through different locations, collect objects and combine seemingly unrelated items to solve obstacles, following the traditional adventure-game rule that almost everything you pick up will eventually become useful. The project recreates the atmosphere of classic LucasArts adventures while adding its own story and situations. The New Adventures of Zak McKracken is particularly appealing to fans of old-school point-and-click games who miss the days when solving a puzzle could require ten minutes of experimentation and one completely ridiculous idea. If you have never used a rubber object on something that clearly should not accept rubber objects, you have not played enough adventures.

“It could have been such a nice day. Zak's favourite movie is on, most of the work on his novel is done, and Sushi seems to have survived her long stay in the sink quite nicely. Still half asleep, Zak gropes for the mailbox key and wanders down the stairs. Wow, a lot of mail again, he thinks to himself. However, next to the usual advertising for Monolith Burger, this time it also includes a letter from the distant Bogota. Suspecting no evil, Zak opens the envelope. As he reads the first few lines, he loses control of his face... ” - LucasFan Games