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This is from Chad White. He writes, "I made this picture for my little brother to remind him of the fun we had playing that game growing up. I think you’ll like it too." Thanks, Chad!
jan_krutisch of Flickr made this, possibly for use in his band, or possibly because he's a closet Caponian! Note how the handle really works.
And here's the original, for reference :)
Click over to http://www.ascii-art.de/ascii/jkl/lucas_arts.txt to see Zak McKracken (and Maniac Mansion and others) in glorious ASCII! In case it ever disappears, I've made a backup here.
Can you identify the woman with the paper? (Hint: in the game she's famous)
by Captain Atoms
..and that's as far as it ever got! As far as I know...
Forst, some history. I began the Zak McKracken archive in 2004, after looking for Mindbent, the web's best Zak McKracken site. And Mindbent had disappeared! I realised that everything disappears eventually, so I decided to make a permanent archive of all things Zak McKracken. So it makes sense to have an archive of Mindbent!
Mindbent began circa 1998 as 'The National Inquisitor' " by Ben Whatsisname, the creator of the Full Throttle fansite, Kickstand, on MixnMojo. Ben himself says it was very modest and "fell kind of flat" so he decided to do it properly, and so Mindbent was born.
Mindbent was born in 2002 and died the following year, 2003. In 2003 Mixnmojo had a temporary meltdown and lost many of its pages. The site soon came back online, and the various creators set about recovering their lost pages. Ben Whatsisname began by recovering Kickstand, his Full Throttle fansite, and I think he intended to recover Mindbent next. But when LucasArts cancelled their promised Full Throttle sequel, he lost his enthusiasm for the fan sites. So Kickstand was mothballed, and Mindbent stayed dead. Ben said he's send me the Mindbent files, but must have changed his mind (after I said that I wanted to copy them wholesale onto my site!) or maybe they got lost in cyberspace. So I've grabbed what I can from The Wayback Machine to show what it looked like. I don't have all the pages, or any of the graphics, but there's enough to give a flavor of what, for one year only, was the best Zak MacKracken site on the Internet. Enjoy!
