Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders playthrough and hints

@kaiman I didn’t catch that one (probably because I’d never heard of BART), neither while playing nor an hour ago.

OH! Now I got it!!! :dash:

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Although… not sure anymore now whether it was intentional after what @kaiman said.

@David, do you remember who came up with the name for the tram system on Mars and whether the double entendre is on purpose?

Pretty sure it was me. I wired most of Mars, I think. And yes, Face Area Rapid Transit is based on the Bay Area version. And yes, the acronym was intentional. Otherwise I would have called it Mars Area Rapid Transit or something. And at the time, BART was having some issues, I think.

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Thanks, David! You know this makes it near-impossible to translate the game (that’s how I discovered it). :sweat_smile:

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Anyone knows a better word starting with ‘s’?
Then it could be something like: ‘MARS Area Rapid Shipment’ (I know, “shipping passengers” doesn’t sound nice.)

Sorry about that! :wink:

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MARS Area Railway System?

(Although I hate recursive acronyms.)

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Solar-powered Humanoid Intergalactic Transport

Bidirectional Extraterrestrial Entities Porting

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I don’t understand :man_shrugging:

         ^   What does MARS stand for?

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MARS is for MARS Area Railway System. That’s the recursive acronym :wink:
Same thing with e.g. PHP, which (today) stands for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor.

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It stands for MARS: Another Richard Stallman

Or for the less programming/IT-inclined:
MARS: Another Recursive Stupidity

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So, you mean MARS Area Railway System Area Railway System Area Railway System Area Railway System Area Railway System Area Railway System Area Railway System Area Railway System Area Railway System? :thinking:

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MARS.

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Great. Now I got hungry. And no Mars around…

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Look up to the sky!

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Clouds.

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I have a Snicker here at work. He is sitting by his desk few meters from mine.

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Hard worker, is he?

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(To bring it back on-topic):

That Snicker guy sure looks like a kind of hamer-headed alien in disguise!

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