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ELECTRONIC GAMER        TEG-7766

ZAK MCKRACKEN

 1 Starting Out, Seattle
 2 Annie, Miami, Nepal, Zaire
 3 Peru, Mexico, Mars
 4 London, Zaire, Cairo, Mars, Endgame

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ELECTRONIC GAMER        TEG-7767




 ZAK MCKRACKEN AND THE ALIEN MINDBENDERS
                 Part 1

 STARTING OUT TIPS, AND GOING TO SEATTLE

 Once again, it's up to you to save the world from a terrible fate -- rampant
stupidity! You, in this case, are Zak McKracken, ace reporter for the National
Inquisitor, the kind of tabloid you see around 7-11 check-out counters.
Eventually, you will gain allies in your quest, but for now I'm afraid that you
are on your own!

 First, a few basic hints. Whenever you enter a new room, click on the command
"WHAT IS" and sweep over the objects in the room with your cursor. Anything that
does not register cannot be manipulated by you. Now, just because it registers
doesn't mean it's important, but nine times out of ten it's there for a reason.
Second, I cannot overemphasize the importance of reading the articles in the
newspaper that comes with the game. It is chock full of clues, and should be
consulted regularly. Remember that there is a twisted logic at work here, and
there is often more than one way of solving a problem. And save often, of
course!

 When the game starts, you have just awakened from a strange dream in which you
saw a map. It occurs to you that you should make a copy of that map, so that's
one of your first priorities.

 You awake in your bedroom, so check that out first. There's a dresser, a desk,
a lamp, a telephone, and an answering machine. OPEN the dresser, then PICK UP
the phone bill. READ the phone bill. Then cross to the desk, and open it. PICK
UP the kazoo. Next to the desk there's a piece of the wall that looks different
from the rest. PICK UP the loose piece of wallpaper. Now, if you look under the
desk, you will notice an object resting there. When you try to PICK UP your
CashCard, however, you push it further under the desk. No problem. USE the phone
bill with the CashCard and it's yours. READ the CashCard. Seems like a lot of
money? It won't last. The only other thing in your bedroom of importance is the
fishbowl, but you don't need that yet, so let's move into the living room. (If
you want to, you can TURN ON your answering machine. It is not necessary to the
solution, but otherwise you won't get messages from your mother. The phone
works, by the way, but I never found any numbers to call.) WALK to the door and
you'll be in the living room.

 When you try to TURN ON the TV, you can't. There are two reasons why: First,
PICK UP the loose cushion. Aha! USE the plug with the power outlet on the wall.
But you still can't TURN ON the TV. If you do a "WHAT IS" on the TV, you will
notice an infrared sensor, so obviously you have to find the remote control. I
don't know about you, but whenever I can't find my remote control, I always know
where to look first. WALK to the couch and PICK UP the other cushion. Then PICK
UP the remote control you find underneath, WALK TO the TV, and USE the remote
control. Watch the TV to get more of an idea as to what's going on in the world.

 You might as well TURN OFF the TV and WALK TO the kitchen. Under the sink
you'll find a cabinet. OPEN the cabinet and PICK UP the box of crayons. USE the
yellow crayon with the piece of wallpaper, and you'll have a map! Then OPEN the
refrigerator and PICK UP the egg. PICK UP the small key by the side of your
door, OPEN the door, and go out.

 When you get to the street level, go left to the French bakery. PUSH the
doorbell. When the man leaves, PUSH it again. Then, once again. PICK UP the
stale bread and WALK TO the door to the right of your stairs. OPEN the door and
go inside to TPC -- The Phone Company. Check out the representative and your
surroundings. They will become important later. For now, GIVE the phone bill to
the representative. Then PICK UP the application next to the counter (on the far
left), and USE the yellow crayon with the application. You can then go back to
your entryway, USE the small key with the mailbox, then USE the application with
the mailbox. CLOSE the mailbox. It's time to take a trip to Seattle to cover a
story about a two-headed squirrel!

 Continue to your right to the corner, where you'll find a bus and a sleeping
driver. USE the kazoo, which will wake him. WALK to the CashCard reader, and USE
the CashCard in the reader. And it's off to the airport!

 Oh no, one of those obnoxious shaven-headed devotees of some far-out Eastern
religion is trying to sell you a book! For once, give in. GIVE your CashCard to
the devotee. He will give you a book on enlightenment. Since you already have
your ticket, you can just WALK to the gate and the planes.

 Now there are three things you need on the plane, and the stewardess will stop
you from getting them, so you have to distract her for a sufficiently long
period of time to allow you to do what you need to do. This section should
delight the practical joker in all of us!

 WALK to the back of the plane, OPEN the door, and go into the toilet. CLOSE the
door. PICK UP the toilet paper, then USE the toilet paper with the sink. TURN ON
the faucet and PUSH the call button. OPEN the door and walk forward to the front
of the plane. (Ain't I a stinker?) On your way to the galley, PICK UP the seat
cushion from the seat in front of yours. You will notice something fall out onto
the floor when you do so. PICK UP the lighter. Then WALK to the microwave oven
in the galley. OPEN the microwave, USE the egg with the microwave, CLOSE the
microwave, and, finally, TURN ON the microwave. (This all must be accomplished
before the stewardess finishes cleaning up the head, so you might want to save
before you try it.) The resultant mess will gain the stewardess's undivided
attention for a while. As she is cleaning up after you, OPEN all the overhead
bins. In one, you will find an oxygen tank, which you can PICK UP. While you're
waiting to land, you can READ the book and the oxygen tank for future reference.

 When you land in Seattle, WALK to the outside door and into the woods. PICK UP
the tree branch overhead. GIVE the peanuts you received as a "meal" on the plane
to the two-headed squirrel, then USE the tree branch on the loose dirt.
(Alternately, you can USE the butter knife from your apartment on the squirrel
but this will haunt you later in the game.) WALK to the cave entrance.

 Who turned out the lights? Well, TURN ON the lighter and use its glow to check
out the cave. Up and to your right is an abandoned bird's nest, and on the floor
is a fire pit. You can't reach the bird's nest yourself, so USE the tree branch
with the nest, USE the nest with the fire pit, then USE the branch with the nest
in the firepit, and USE the lighter on everything. And Lucasfilm said "Let there
be light!"

 On the far right wall of the cave is a door with some strange markings (and
they won't be the last!) READ the strange markings, then USE your yellow crayon
on the markings. This one time, the game will complete the picture for you, and
the door will open. Go inside.

 There is a machine holding a blue crystal, which you saw in your dream at the
beginning of the game. You need it, but it's locked in place. Fortunately, you
notice an infrared sensor on the machine that looks just like the one you've got
on your TV back home. Could it...nah! Well, might as well give it a shot. USE
the remote control. Presto!

 Now, take the blue crystal. The lights will go out, but you should be able to
find your way back to the cave with no problems. From there, return to the
airport, and USE the reservation machine to buy a ticket back to San Francisco.
It's time to get some help in your quest!

 ZAK MCKRACKEN AND THE ALIEN MINDBENDERS is published by Lucasfilm Games and
distributed by Mediagenic.

 This walkthru is copyright (c) 1989 by Paul J. Grant. All rights reserved.


ELECTRONIC GAMER        TEG-7781




 ZAK MCKRACKEN AND THE ALIEN MINDBENDERS
                 Part 2

 ANNIE, MIAMI, NEPAL, AND ZAIRE

 You now have an artifact, and you need some advice. Remember the woman from the
Society for Ancient Wisdom you saw on TV? Why not go see her?

 When you get back to the San Francisco airport, WALK to the door on your right
and you will find yourself back on the street corner by the bus. WALK up to the
top of the screen and 14th Avenue. For the time being, walk by the pawnshop and
continue to the second door. USE the blue crystal on the drop slot. Annie will
open the door, invite you inside, and show you a picture of the machine you need
to build in order to defeat the Aliens. Make a copy of this diagram for future
reference.

 About this time, you will also notice that you can use the command SWITCH. Try
it out by switching to Annie and have her pick up the blotter on her desk, and
pick up the CashCard underneath. You won't need Annie's direct help for a while,
so switch back to Zak. You've got to get the other yellow crystal shard that
complements the one that Annie gave you, and it won't be easy, believe me.

 WALK out of Annie's office and go back left to the pawnshop. There you will BUY
the following: the nose glasses, the hat, the tool box, the golf club, the
guitar, and the wet suit. Go outside and to the right to the large bobby pin
sign. OPEN the tool box, and USE the wire cutters on the sign. You have now gone
from malicious mischief on the plane to vandalism and petty theft! About this
time, you should have received a letter. Make your way back to your apartment
entrance and USE the small key on the mailbox. PICK up the letter inside and
read it. You are now a proud member of the King Fan Club. If the letter hasn't
arrived yet, wander around a bit until it does.

 Go upstairs to your kitchen. USE the monkey wrench on the pipe below the sink,
then TURN ON the switch behind the faucet. This will activate your garbage
disposal. USE the stale French bread in the sink, and PICK UP the bread crumbs
you've made. Be sure to TURN OFF the disposal and USE the wrench on the pipe
again to fix things back to the way they were. (It might be fun at this point to
PICK UP the butter knife and go into your bedroom. PICK UP the loose corner of
carpet [lower right] and try to USE the butter knife in the loose floor boards.
No go, huh? Well, try the monkey wrench. Now, USE the rope on the hole and you
can climb down and check out the aliens' secret room!) Now go back to the
airport, and buy a ticket for Miami.

 Miami is closed but there's a panhandler there whom you should take pity on.
GIVE him your cashcard, then GIVE him the book. He will read it, return it to
you, and also give you a bottle of whiskey. From Miami, fly to either London or
Cairo, and from there to Katmandu. (Whenever you leave the U.S.A., you will have
to use the right exit code as found in the sheet that accompanies the game.) In
Katmandu, go right to the fancy door and try to OPEN the door. GIVE the book to
the guard, and he will allow you inside to meet the Swami. (First read the
things on the bulletin board.) The Swami will tell you how to use the blue
crystal to trade minds with any animal, a talent that will come in useful sooner
or later! In fact, I'll bet you're dying to try it out right now, aren't you? Go
ahead! BUT SAVE FIRST!

 USE the blue crystal on the Yak. Well, no one said it had to be exciting. About
now, your use of the blue crystal will have triggered something in that secret
room. Watch what the aliens do and pay particular attention to their method of
disguise. Return to your own body, and wait around until the alien shows up. He
will take you captive, bring you back to his headquarters, and brainwash you,
taking your crystals. For now, however, merely restore the game to where you
saved. Go to the left and check out the police station. There is a flagpole out
in front which you need, but stealing a flag is probably considered treason in
Nepal; so, you have to be fast or sneaky. Either way, you have already saved the
game at this point, so give it a shot. PICK UP the flag pole, and WALK to the
yak as fast as you can, then USE the CashCard in the yak. If your timing is
right, you'll get away scot free.

 The alternative route is to USE the lighter on the hay bale to the right of the
temple. While everyone is busy putting out the fire, you can nonchalantly
saunter over to the police station and pillage it. If your conscience starts to
bother you, remember, it's for a very worthwhile cause.

 From the airport, buy a ticket, and fly to Kinshasa, Zaire. After going through
several random jungle scenes, you will find yourself in a clearing. At the far
left in the clearing is a hut with a sign out front. Go inside, and you will
meet the Shaman who's in the picture with the Swami back in Nepal. GIVE him the
golf club. Out of gratitude, he and two of his countrymen will show you a dance.
TAKE NOTES! When the three men stop dancing and line up in a row, write down the
order in which they bob their heads. (This differs from game to game.) The
Shaman will tell you to return when you have the yellow crystal, so it's time to
head out again. Wend your way back through the jungle to the airport, fly to
Cairo, and from there back to Miami.

 About now you should have severely depleted your CashCard. So before we head
home, let's try to get you some more money. In Miami, buy a ticket to the
Bermuda Triangle. Your plane will be caught by a mysterious beam, and you will
end up on a spaceship. The pilot will enter a four-note combination on the
colored panels (this too varies from game to game), but when he invites you back
aboard the plane, stay over on the far right by the doorway. Once the bright
white glare disappears, push the button by the side of the door. You will be
captured and taken before the King of the Aliens. Before he can decide what
horrible fate worse than death should befall you, give the Fan Club Card (or the
guitar) to the King. This will make you the King's good friend, and one of his
minions will show you a different color combination that will send you home.
Don't use it yet. Instead, return to the King's chamber, and WALK to the right
and READ the Lott-O-Dictor, which will give you tomorrow's winning number. Then
go back to the color panel, press the right combination of buttons, and stand on
the platform to the left of the panel. You will be teleported straight home. Go
back to the pawnshop and BUY a Lottery ticket. (At this point, you can also SELL
your bent butter knife.) You can pick up your earnings after your trip to Latin
America.

 ZAK MCKRACKEN AND THE ALIEN MINDBENDERS is published by Lucasfilm Games and
distributed by Mediagenic.

 This walkthru is copyright (c) 1989 by Paul J. Grant. All rights reserved.


ELECTRONIC GAMER        TEG-7794




 ZAK MCKRACKEN AND THE ALIEN MINDBENDERS
                 Part 3

 PERU, MEXICO, AND MARS

 At SFO, buy a ticket for Lima, Peru. When you reach Lima, you will have to
wander through a few jungle screens until you reach a scenic overlook. If you
continue right past the ancient bird feeder, you'll see a huge carving. Now, if
only you had wings....

 Go back to the bird feeder, and USE the bread crumbs on the feeder. This will
attract a sparrow. Save the game! USE the blue crystal on the sparrow. Use of
the blue crystal will alert the aliens to your location, and you want to avoid
capture. Now, depending on your game system, you will have to press a certain
key or button (on the Amiga, for example, you click the right mouse button) to
avoid watching the "cut" scene of the Alien putting on his disguise. Activate
this feature as soon as the scene begins. This will give you enough time to do
what you need to do.

 In the bird's body, FLY to the giant carving and to its right eye. You will see
a candelabra and a platform. You can't do anything here right now, so fly out
and go to the left eye. PICK UP the scroll on the floor, and FLY back out of the
eye, across the valley, and back to Zak. GIVE the scroll to Zak, then return to
Zak's body. As quickly as possible, get back into the jungle. You must
accomplish this before the Alien arrives.

 Return to the airport and fly to Mexico City. You'll have to go through yet
another jungle until you reach the Aztec pyramid. Pick any of the three
entrances and go inside. Now you're in a real maze, which you can map if you
want to, but it can be solved fairly easily by trial and error. In each room
there is at least one torch, which you will have to locate (with a "WHAT IS")
and then USE with the lighter. There are three types of corridors in the
pyramid: long ones with green faces on the walls, medium ones with blue faces,
and short ones with no faces. You will enter a long corridor; try each exit from
it until you locate a medium corridor; from there, try to find which of the
several doors leads to a short corridor. One of the short corridor rooms has a
door which leads into a room with a statue holding a shard of yellow crystal,
and on the base of the statue are some strange yellow markings. Unfortunately,
here you must draw the correct figure yourself, and you don't know what it is. I
would recommend that you save the game at this point, and prepare to meet the
rest of our intrepid crew.

 SWITCH to either Melissa or Leslie, who are standing by their converted VW
Microbus in the Martian desert, just waiting for something to do. Have the co-ed
you switched to OPEN the van door and go inside. OPEN the glove compartment.
PICK UP the boom box, the CashCards, the fuse, and the digital audio tape from
the radio. USE the oxygen valve if you like. Leave the van, and make sure each
girl has the correct CashCard. WALK to the left, past the alien hostel, and to
the black monolith. USE the CashCard in the slot, and then do it again so you
get two tokens. Now switch to the other girl, and have her do the same, so that
each co-ed has two tokens.

 Bring them both inside the hostel. USE the token on the metal plate to the
right of the airlock door, and PICK UP the burnt-out fuse. Then, USE the fuse
from your van in the air lock fuse box, and PUSH the button, closing the door.
Next, PUSH the button by the door on the right wall, and send Leslie into the
dormitory. (Melissa is a little too squeamish.) Check out the locker by the door
and PICK UP the little strip of yellow vinyl tape. OPEN the right side of the
cabinet, and PICK UP the flashlight. Move to the right and PICK UP the covers,
revealing a dead alien shaped like a broom. Finally, PICK UP the ladder in the
far right corner, and leave.

 WALK both the girls to the right (past the van) to the Giant Face and a door
that has three buttons on it. Set up the ladder under the highest button, and
send one co-ed up the ladder, while parking the other by the lowest. Now press
the buttons in the order indicated by the dancing natives in Zaire. This will
open the door. Take both girls inside.

 Inside you will find two huge statues and three massive doors. On one of the
statues will be strange yellow markings. READ the markings and copy the symbol
down (they change from game to game). This is the symbol Zak needs to draw on
the Mexican statue's base to get the yellow crystal shard. But first there are
some other matters to take care of in the Great Chamber. Your oxygen will not
last forever, and it might be nice to see the girls' faces. Let's find the air
conditioning unit.

 WALK to the massive door on the left. USE the ladder by the pedestal, and WALK
to the crystal globe. Have the other girl USE the vinyl tape with the digital
audio tape (DAT), allowing you to record over it. USE the DAT in the boom box,
TURN ON the boom box, and set it to Record. SWITCH to the girl on the ladder and
PICK UP the globe. There will be an annoying whine and the door will open. Send
LESLIE with the flashlight into the chamber.

 You find yourself in a maze of colored doors. You can map this maze if you
like, but the quick and dirty way is to go through the purple door, then the
blue door, then the purple. You should find yourself in a room with a machine.
READ the gauges on the machine, then PUSH both switches. Once both gauges move
into the green, you will be able to remove your helmets inside the whole Great
Chamber.

 Exit the machine room and go through the blue door. From there, take the purple
door, another purple door, and finally the door with the red edges on your far
right. There you will find a room with a familiar map, a representation of the
Sphinx, and more strange markings which you should copy down. To find your way
to the exit, go out and take the yellow door, then the blue door, the red door
on the far left, the red door on the far right, the red door on the far right,
and the red doorway on the far left.

 Next move to the middle of the three massive doors. The crystal globe here is
broken, so you have to USE the boom box in Play mode, which will produce the
sound you need to open the door. This is not a maze, thankfully. All you need to
do is go through the doorway over on the right Inside you will see a close
relative of the statue in Mexico, holding an ankh. PICK UP the ankh.

 Finally, you can open the massive door on the far right by either method, and
once you enter and go through the door in that chamber, you will find a force
field, which you turn off when you USE the ankh in the panel. PUSH the button on
the strange machine and you will see what I assume is a hologram of the ancient
aliens who prepared all this for you. PICK UP the smaller key on the wall (the
larger one will crumble into dust). At this point, it's time to leave Mars, and
go back to Zak.

 Save the game here, just in case you make a mistake. USE the yellow crayon on
the strange markings. By placing the cursor on the screen where you want to draw
a line, you can recreate the drawing the co-eds found on the huge statue. When
it's done, click on FINISHED DRAWING. The statue will release the crystal shard
and you can take it. Find your way out of the pyramid, return to the airport,
and from there to San Francisco. It's time to pick up Annie and finish this
game!

 ZAK MCKRACKEN AND THE ALIEN MINDBENDERS is published by Lucasfilm Games and
distributed by Mediagenic.

 This walkthru is copyright (c) 1989 by Paul J. Grant. All rights reserved.


ELECTRONIC GAMER        TEG-8359




 ZAK MCKRACKEN AND THE ALIEN MINDBENDERS
                 Part 4

 LONDON, ZAIRE (AGAIN), CAIRO, MARS (AGAIN), AND ENDGAME

 Once back in San Francisco, go home and get your fish, Sushi, and his
transparent domicile. USE the fishbowl with the sink to give Sushi a temporary
home, and then leave. On your way to Annie's office, be sure to visit the pawn
shop and pick up your lottery winnings. Would that real life were as full of
such sure things!

 GIVE the scroll to Annie (who is the only one who can read it). Then both of
you should walk down to catch the bus (remember only Zak can wake the driver),
and you both should go to the airport and buy tickets for London. Zak should
GIVE the bottle of whiskey to Annie, who should, in turn, GIVE it to the sentry
by the electric gate outside of Stonehenge. He will get drunk and pass out,
enabling Annie to TURN OFF the switch that controls the electrified fence. Zak
can USE the wire cutters on the fence, and both can WALK to Stonehenge. Zak
should USE the yellow crystal shards on the altar, then USE the flag pole on the
little notch on the left. SWITCH to Annie, who can READ the scroll again and
produce the desired effect. Have ZAK pick up the yellow crystal (now fused
whole), and send both back to the airport.

 Both Zak and Annie should fly to Cairo, but send Zak on from there to Zaire,
and have him visit the Shaman once again. The Shaman will explain to Zak how to
use the yellow crystal for teleportation purposes. Zak should then rejoin Annie
in Cairo.

 On one of the two legs of the Sphinx will be some more of those ubiquitous
yellow markings. Zak must recreate the drawing seen in the chamber on Mars below
the depiction of the Sphinx, which will open a secret door. Both Annie and Zak
must go inside. Yep, it's another maze, but (a) it's lighted, and (b) there's an
easy solution. Always go through the doorway with a picture of the sun over it
(or in one case, the doorway is at the end of a corridor, and the sun is above
and to the right). Eventually you will find a door with what looks like a pair
of horns above it. Inside you will find some hieroglyphics which only Annie can
read. They will instruct her to push the left button, then the right button, and
the center button. (One of the hieroglyphics looks suspiciously like an Imperial
fighter from Star Wars, by the way.) Once the panel opens, Zak should USE his
yellow crayon on his wallpaper map, and you should write down the last set of
strange markings (whew) by the depiction of the Great Face.

 Retrace your steps out of the Sphinx. At this point, Zak should go to the big
pyramid across the street, and enter the tiny little door on the left side. With
lighter in hand, he will be able to find the doorway to the right, find the
torch on the way inside that room, and light it. Bring Annie to join him in the
room with the sarcophagus, then send Zak only back to the airport, and fly him
to Miami.

 In Miami, buy another ticket to the Bermuda Triangle, and before the beam can
get you, USE the parachute. The cushion you stole from the first airplane will
keep you afloat. USE the kazoo, which will summon a dolphin. Save the game here,
and USE the blue crystal on the dolphin. As the dolphin, SWIM underwater and to
the lower right to a clump of seaweed. PICK UP the seaweed, then PICK UP the
glowing object behind it. Return to the surface, GIVE the glowing object to Zak,
and return Zak to his own body. Immediately, USE the yellow crystal. The maps
you have drawn will appear, and you can use the cursor to pick where on the map
you want to go. Click on the yellow dot in South America, and you will be
teleported to the room in the huge carving's right eye where the candelabra was.
PICK UP the candelabra and get ready to teleport to the secret chamber inside
the Martian pyramid. USE the yellow crystal and click on the pyramid.

 Oops. Nothing happened.

 Well, you have to get to Mars anyway, so USE the yellow crystal again and click
on the Great Face. You will be teleported into a chamber with three doors and,
yes: more strange yellow markings! USE your yellow crayon to recreate the figure
you saw in the map room inside the Sphinx, and all three doors will open. Go
through the center door, and you find yourself in the maze of colored doors.
TURN ON your lighter, go through the green door on the far left, and the yellow
door on the far left of the second room; go all the way to the left, and you'll
be in the Great Chamber. Zak can meet up with Melissa and Leslie at long last.

 No time for chitchat, though. Have Leslie put her helmet back on and WALK to
the big pile of sand in front on the hostel. USE the broom alien on the sand, to
reveal solar panels, then send her over to stand by the tram. Next, PUT ON
Melissa's helmet, and send her over to the the tram. Finally, you have to send
Zak outside, but he needs a spacesuit. PUT ON the wet suit, the oxygen tank and
the fishbowl, then USE the duct tape on the fishbowl. Perfect! Send Zak to the
shuttlebug where he can use the oxygen valve to freshen his tank and bring it up
the full 15 minutes; then, send him to the monolith, and have him USE his
CashCard in the slot. He needs only one token. Zak should then join the others
by the tram. Save the game here!

 Have each of the three USE the token in the tram. All three must get on board
before it leaves, or you can't finish the game. The tram will go to the Martian
pyramid, and let everyone off. Send Leslie to the pyramid, and USE the broom
alien on the sand pile. Send Zak there, and USE the bobby pin sign. Then give
Zak the flashlight, and have him enter the pyramid. It is a duplicate of the
Egyptian pyramid, except for the sarcophagus.

 This one can be manipulated. Bring both co-eds into the chamber, and have one
PUSH the sarcophagus's feet. This will open a secret door to the left of the
sarcophagus. Send the second girl up the stairs, have her stand by the button,
and send Zak up there. (You may have to move the girl away from the
sarcophagus's feet to close the hole in the door.) PUSH the button, quickly
SWITCH to Zak, and PICK UP the white crystal. Zak should USE the yellow crystal
to teleport to the dot on the map near Cairo.

 (While not necessary, it is fun to send Melissa and Leslie back on the tram,
have them pick up their fuse in the hostel fuse box, replace it in the van, and
then USE the controls to head home.)

 Zak is now in a secret room with a big base, two switches and a lever. First,
PULL the lever, which opens a secret set of stairs. SWITCH to Annie, who has
been waiting patiently below, and have her come up the stairs. PULL the lever
again to close the panel in the floor. Have Zak USE the glowing object on the
base, USE the candelabra on the glowing object, and USE each of the three
crystals in their proper position as shown in your dream and the diagram in
Annie's office. (Oh no, you forgot what order to put them in? You dunderhead,
now you'll have to start from the beginning! Just kidding.... Actually, the
program automatically puts each in the right position.) When the machine is
finished, have Zak and Annie each pull a switch in turn. Then sit back and enjoy
your victory and the amusing epilogue. It's Miller time!

 ZAK MCKRACKEN AND THE ALIEN MINDBENDERS is published by Lucasfilm Games and
distributed by Mediagenic.

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