# Zak McKracken video trailer (1990) **URL:** \ **Category:** Adventure/Lucasfilm Games\ **Created:** [July 13, 2017, 8:23pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/zak-mckracken-video-trailer-1990/1054 "2017-07-13T20:23:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![LowLevel](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/lowlevel/32/48_2.png) [@LowLevel](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/LowLevel)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2017, 1:00am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/zak-mckracken-video-trailer-1990/1054/21 "2017-07-14T01:00:55Z")
> [@milanfahrnholz](#): > > I´m beginning to think you´re actually agreeing with me, you just don´t know it yet! 😛 I was agreeing with you since the beginning but probably my wacky writing style and twisted sense of humor has confused you. > [@milanfahrnholz](#): > > The Ringwraiths from Lord Of The Rings are revealed to be called the Nazgul. Isn’t that just a change of language? Wasn’t “nazgul” just their name in black speech? ---
**Author:** ![milanfahrnholz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@milanfahrnholz](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/milanfahrnholz)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2017, 1:05am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/zak-mckracken-video-trailer-1990/1054/22 "2017-07-14T01:05:09Z")
Oh yeah, that could be it. But everyone else adopts it later on. Maybe the the Witch-king of Angmar also has a proper name, but nobody dared to ask him that.🙂 Another thing about Zak I was never really sure about. Is “The King” supposed to be THE Elvis Presly who “didn´t die, just went to his home planet” or just a huge interplanetery Elvis Fan? I always assumed it was the latter but I´ve recently heard people believe the former to be the intention. ---
**Author:** ![Caven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c68b51/32.png) [@Caven](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Caven)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2017, 1:30am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/zak-mckracken-video-trailer-1990/1054/23 "2017-07-14T01:30:12Z")
> [@milanfahrnholz](#): > > Alright I offer you one final option for an agreement, if you disagree I´m out for good. > > Look at this solution: > > ![](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/thimbleweedpark/original/2X/1/14ce8eb0d544269907fe274a97ffa3e4401cb11b.png) > > Name: The King > Race: Caponian > Class: Alien Mindbender > > But since all my argumentation is disregarded outright by you guys anyway feel free to also igore this: > > ![](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/thimbleweedpark/original/2X/5/598af2fa04b90e038a1de0379d1d8e5f9d54c715.png) Maybe I’m missing something, but what argument is this intended to resolve? ---
**Author:** ![milanfahrnholz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@milanfahrnholz](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/milanfahrnholz)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2017, 1:35am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/zak-mckracken-video-trailer-1990/1054/24 "2017-07-14T01:35:55Z")
> [@Caven](#): > > Maybe I’m missing something, but what argument is this intended to resolve? None that´s supposed to exist in the first place. ---
**Author:** ![uriel](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/uriel/32/1340_2.png) [@uriel](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/uriel)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2017, 2:21am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/zak-mckracken-video-trailer-1990/1054/25 "2017-07-14T02:21:06Z")
Nice find Zak! Man… I forgot about that footstep sound. It never made sense to me. It’s like they are constantly stepping into something sticky 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ZakPhoenixMcKracken](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/zakphoenixmckracken/32/41_2.png) [@ZakPhoenixMcKracken](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/ZakPhoenixMcKracken)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2017, 4:15am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/zak-mckracken-video-trailer-1990/1054/26 "2017-07-14T04:15:17Z")
> [@milanfahrnholz](#): > > You can call the Klingons just as well The Warrior Race. > [@milanfahrnholz](#): > > I´ll refer to the Vulcans as “The Alien Logicians” from now on. 😀 That’s perfectly logic, doc. ✌ ---
**Author:** ![ZakPhoenixMcKracken](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/zakphoenixmckracken/32/41_2.png) [@ZakPhoenixMcKracken](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/ZakPhoenixMcKracken)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2017, 4:30am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/zak-mckracken-video-trailer-1990/1054/27 "2017-07-14T04:30:20Z")
Thanks everybody for your discourses. Now I have a clearer idea of the whole thing. > [@Caven](#): > > Maybe I’m missing something, but what argument is this intended to resolve? In another topic of this forum, I revealed that I thought that “Alien Mindbenders” meant “the aliens who bend minds”, but actually they are “the machines (of another world) which bend minds”. That’s all. ---
**Author:** ![Guga](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/guga/32/14476_2.png) [@Guga](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Guga)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2017, 4:33am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/zak-mckracken-video-trailer-1990/1054/28 "2017-07-14T04:33:31Z")
I still think that “alien mindbenders” refers to the aliens. They are mindbenders, because they bend minds, and they’re also aliens. They’re actually called Caponians, but still… raiders of the lost ark. Indy is one of the raiders. Are you going to say “_noooo Indiana Jones is a HUMAN, not a RAIDER!_” ? I doubt so 😛 that’s the same thing. Those Caponians are alien mindbenders. ---
**Author:** ![Caven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c68b51/32.png) [@Caven](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Caven)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2017, 4:33am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/zak-mckracken-video-trailer-1990/1054/29 "2017-07-14T04:33:41Z")
> [@ZakPhoenixMcKracken](#): > > > [@Caven](#): > > > > Maybe I’m missing something, but what argument is this intended to resolve? > > In another topic of this forum, I revealed that I thought that “Alien Mindbenders” meant “the aliens who bend minds”, but actually they are “the machines (of another world) which bend minds”. > That’s all. Um, I always interpreted it as “the aliens who bend minds”. ---
**Author:** ![Caven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c68b51/32.png) [@Caven](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Caven)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2017, 4:36am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/zak-mckracken-video-trailer-1990/1054/30 "2017-07-14T04:36:14Z")
> [@Guga](#): > > I still think that “alien mindbenders” refers to the aliens. > > They are mindbenders, because they bend minds, and they’re also aliens. They’re actually called Caponians, but still… raiders of the lost ark. Indy is one of the raiders. Are you going to say “_noooo Indiana Jones is a HUMAN, not a RAIDER!_” ? I doubt so 😛 that’s the same thing. Those Caponians are alien mindbenders. More to the point there, the title refers to people who raid Arks, which is why it’s called Raiders of the Lost Ark, not The Raided Lost Ark. ---
**Author:** ![ZakPhoenixMcKracken](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/zakphoenixmckracken/32/41_2.png) [@ZakPhoenixMcKracken](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/ZakPhoenixMcKracken)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2017, 4:36am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/zak-mckracken-video-trailer-1990/1054/31 "2017-07-14T04:36:47Z")
By the way, thanks everybody also for another thing: everyone, in their replies, wrote “Zak McKracken” correctly. Good! 😙 ---
**Author:** ![LowLevel](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/lowlevel/32/48_2.png) [@LowLevel](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/LowLevel)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2017, 4:44am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/zak-mckracken-video-trailer-1990/1054/32 "2017-07-14T04:44:29Z")
> [@ZakPhoenixMcKracken](#): > > In another topic of this forum, I revealed that I thought that “Alien Mindbenders” meant “the aliens who bend minds”, but actually they are “the machines (of another world) which bend minds”. Well, it’s very very possible that I completely misunderstood what David said in that thread but I was under the impression that he confirmed your first interpretation. He said: > The Caponians are aliens/extraterresterials and they bend minds with their machines, so they are Alien Mindbenders. The two “they” in the quoted sentence both refer to the extraterrestrials, not to the machines. > [@ZakPhoenixMcKracken](#): > > By the way, thanks everybody also for another thing: everyone, in their replies, wrote “Zak McKracken” correctly. Good! 😙 This time I wrote it myself instead of copying-and-pasting it from Wikipedia. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![ZakPhoenixMcKracken](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/zakphoenixmckracken/32/41_2.png) [@ZakPhoenixMcKracken](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/ZakPhoenixMcKracken)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2017, 5:10am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/zak-mckracken-video-trailer-1990/1054/33 "2017-07-14T05:10:38Z")
You fully understood, and David confirmed that in his post. Here’s the whole thing: > [@My personal wish for the "Ransome uncensored" update](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/my-personal-wish-for-the-ransome-uncensored-update/838/98): > > Sorry I didn’t jump in earlier. I think several of you got the intent of the title. The Caponians are aliens/extraterresterials and they bend minds with their machines (we only see one of these machines in the game, but it’s a world-wide epidemic, so there are likely hundreds or thousands of them situated at strategic spots around the planet), so they are Alien Mindbenders. The machines, coincidentally, are also called mindbending machines. He was very clear, but I wanted, in this post, tickle your minds. I am a mindbender, too 😃 😃 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Caven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c68b51/32.png) [@Caven](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Caven)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2017, 5:17am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/zak-mckracken-video-trailer-1990/1054/34 "2017-07-14T05:17:42Z")
> [@My personal wish for the "Ransome uncensored" update](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/my-personal-wish-for-the-ransome-uncensored-update/838/98): > > You fully understood, and David confirmed that in his post. > Here’s the whole thing: > > > [@My personal wish for the "Ransome uncensored" update](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/my-personal-wish-for-the-ransome-uncensored-update/838/98): > > > > Sorry I didn’t jump in earlier. I think several of you got the intent of the title. The Caponians are aliens/extraterresterials and they bend minds with their machines (we only see one of these machines in the game, but it’s a world-wide epidemic, so there are likely hundreds or thousands of them situated at strategic spots around the planet), so they are Alien Mindbenders. The machines, coincidentally, are also called mindbending machines. > > He was very clear, but I wanted, in this post, tickle your minds. > I am a mindbender, too 😃 😃 😃 Ok, I understand. The Caponians are huge fans of bending their minds, but it’s illegal on their home planet because it has some sort of mindbending effect. So they brought the machines to Earth, where they can engage in recreational mindbending without getting arrested by the alien authorities. Makes perfect sense. There’s obviously no room for misinterpretation. ---
**Author:** ![Ema](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/ema/32/14101_2.png) [@Ema](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Ema)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2017, 5:45am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/zak-mckracken-video-trailer-1990/1054/35 "2017-07-14T05:45:34Z")
OMG, what have I done?? 😵 ---
**Author:** ![Caven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c68b51/32.png) [@Caven](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Caven)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2017, 6:22am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/zak-mckracken-video-trailer-1990/1054/36 "2017-07-14T06:22:47Z")
> [@Ema](#): > > OMG, what have I done?? 😵 Hey, I got that info straight from Zach MacKhrakkin. Surely it must be completely accurate. Don’t worry. Zak McKracken gave me the real story. ---
**Author:** ![milanfahrnholz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@milanfahrnholz](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/milanfahrnholz)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2017, 11:17am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/zak-mckracken-video-trailer-1990/1054/37 "2017-07-14T11:17:34Z")
Wow, just wow. Absolulty everybody again manages to miss the point, be completly wrong and disregard any kind of reasonable and sound logic, but hey as long as everybody´s happy. As I´ve said I´m out of this “discussion” for good: ---
**Author:** ![Caven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c68b51/32.png) [@Caven](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Caven)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2017, 6:20pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/zak-mckracken-video-trailer-1990/1054/38 "2017-07-14T18:20:20Z")
> [@milanfahrnholz](#): > > Wow, just wow. Absolulty everybody again manages to miss the point, be completly wrong and disregard any kind of reasonable and sound logic, but hey as long as everybody´s happy. > > As I´ve said I´m out of this “discussion” for good: But what’s the point that’s being missed? ---
**Author:** ![David](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/david/32/11_2.png) [@David](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/David)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2017, 8:57pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/zak-mckracken-video-trailer-1990/1054/39 "2017-07-14T20:57:38Z")
> [@Caven](#): > > Ok, I understand. The Caponians are huge fans of bending their minds, but it’s illegal on their home planet because it has some sort of mindbending effect. So they brought the machines to Earth, where they can engage in recreational mindbending without getting arrested by the alien authorities. Makes perfect sense. There’s obviously no room for misinterpretation. Pefectly legal on the Capon home world. Their government used all the time as a mindwashing technique for dissidents. But on other planets, they’re using it as a means to dominate/take over the population by making people stupider than themselves… they’re actually smart enough to realize that most other planets’ populations have way more brains than they do… hence their technological world domination equipment. ---
**Author:** ![milanfahrnholz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@milanfahrnholz](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/milanfahrnholz)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2017, 9:05pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/zak-mckracken-video-trailer-1990/1054/40 "2017-07-14T21:05:59Z")
I understand the skolarians are really old, I mean really really old right? And they knew about the caponian menance because they travel around the universe looking for worlds with races stupider than themselves also both longer than humanity even existed. So for some reason the skolarians knew of the caponian menace, that they would eventually arrive on earth so they hid all the pieces of their shielding device for humans to protect themselves(meaning they also knew everything about the caponian technique). But after the events of Zak it´s implied that humanity has evolved in some sort way like in Childhood´s End that they´re capable of telepathy and so on. So not only Zak and Annie won (finding each other) but in the end the whole thing had a positive effect on humanity as well! [Previous page](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/zak-mckracken-video-trailer-1990/1054.md?page=1) [Next page](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/zak-mckracken-video-trailer-1990/1054.md?page=3)