Zak McKracken is a tabloid reporter (and not a very good one at that). After
having a psychedelic dream one day, Zak realizes that something is wrong —
space aliens are dumbifying the general public through the telephone system.
Zak must stop this, but he can’t do it alone. After finding a strange crystal,
Zak manages to get the help of the anthropologist Annie and her friends,
Melissa and Leslie. The four unlikely heroes must now figure out a way to
destroy the dumbifying devices and save the Earth.

_Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders_ is a third-person puzzle-solving
adventure similar in gameplay to Maniac Mansion. The player chooses verb
commands (Open, Pick Up, Give, etc.; there are no Look or Talk commands) to
interact with the game world. The game features up to four controllable
protagonists; it is possible to switch between them at any time after they
have been introduced, and also exchange inventory items if the characters are
in the same location. The game can be described as a “globe-trotting”
adventure, since the heroes are required to travel to different exotic
countries and even leave the Earth for a while in order to complete it. Some
of the puzzles are optional or can be solved in different ways.

The FM Towns version has VGA graphics with 256 colors and higher-quality music
and sound effects.

GOG release comes with two versions of the game that install simultaneously.
One is FM Towns version with updated graphics, while the other is marked as
Floppy version which is the old DOS version of a game.