Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders playthrough and hints

Adventure/Lucasfilm Games
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@frenzie gets a bonus point for pointing that out and wins!

Gnik Si Sivle

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Which is exactly what I wrote at first but it looked wrong.

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For some reason, in my teen years I had memorized that sentence as 4-4-4 characters.

GNIK - SISI - VLE!

That’s probably the reason why I still remember it well, even nowadays (and with the Initial Capital Letter)

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Because you didn´t know what it meant! :stuck_out_tongue:

And I didn´t remember it (just the forwards meaning) and took the logical approach.

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When does that happen?

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When you buy a ticket for the love boat cruise and give it to the Alien

just kidding… when you use the blue crystal on the bus

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Is Al able to leave the bus?

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sure he can!
but you can also keep him locked up

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Unbelievable - this game is 30 years old, I’ve played it several times and I still discover/learn new things about and in it. :slight_smile:

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He doesn’t appear in the bus in the FM Towns version, sadly. He appears to the left of it instead.

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ZLORFIK.

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I also read somewhere that you can get Lou put into the Mindbender if you sell the blue crystal to him after you used it. I tried it but it doesn´t work because there is nothing to sucessfully use it on in Lou´s Loans so the caponian never beams inside Lou´s Loans.

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no dice! At least not in the C64 version. Either he takes you after asking where did you put the artifact or he says missed him


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Hmm, technically you can use the crystal on anything but it seems some versions only have him coming for you if you actually were sucessul i.e. used it on an animal.

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We should all be more nitpicky grammar Kate.

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But is it weird that this is not my favourite part about you(even if I mostly don´t mind it)?

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No it’s not weird. I think it irritates most people :wink:

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I broke the game (I’ll post a video later/tomorrow)
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It seems however to be a thing you greatly define yourself with while, besides useful for your job, there may be better things…though those might be for others to see.

Damn, what speech book did I just eat?

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In the C64 version he always comes for you. However, once you know how to use it he refuses to use it on anything but animals.

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