Retronauts Episode 294: Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders
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4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2020
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
It's time once again for another installment of our LucasArts adventure game series with what could be the only podcast episode ever created about the developer's least beloved (outside of Germany) game. Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders might be the LucasArts adventure that's aged the worst, but it's a fascinating case of a game trapped between the design styles of Maniac Mansion and The Secret of Monkey Island, and one that decided to take an evolutionary path that ended up being a dead end. On this episode, join Bob Mackey and Duckfeed.tv's Gary Butterfield as the two take apart Zak McKracken to see what makes it so different from the rest of the LucasArts catalog.
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| 0:30.2 | Retro Noughts is part of the Greenlit Podcast Network. |
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| 0:37.6 | This week on Retro Noughts, we take 300 international flights. |
| 1:00.0 | Hello everybody and welcome to another episode of Retro Noughts. |
| 1:06.0 | I'm your host for this one, Bob Mackie, and today's podcast is all about Zach McCracken |
| 1:10.5 | in the Alien Mindbetters. |
| 1:11.5 | No, you're not hearing things. |
| 1:12.9 | I'm doing a podcast about Zach McCracken in the Alien Mindbetters. |
| 1:16.2 | I'm doing in English, not in German. |
| 1:18.3 | And this is part of our LucasArts of Many series. |
| 1:20.3 | We've done so many of these games so far. |
| 1:22.2 | Today we're going to be focusing on one of the least discussed and I think least liked |
| 1:27.4 | of the LucasArts Adventure game library. |
| 1:30.4 | And joining me on this podcast is Gary Butterfield of the Duckfeed.tv podcast network. |
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