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FM Towns, Fujitsu, gog.com, LucasArts, Lucasfilm Games, Steam

Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders, FM Towns

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Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders is the second SCUMM game from Lucasfilm Games (aka LucasArts), after Maniac Mansion, with game development led by David Fox, and with Matthew Alan Kane as co-designer and co-programmer. It was originally released for the Commodore 64 in 1988, and this enhanced FM Towns port was published in Japan in 1990 by Fujitsu. The game is playable in both English and Japanese.

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gog.com, LucasArts, Lucasfilm Games, MS-DOS, PC, Steam

The Secret of Monkey Island, PC

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This is the original MS-DOS classic, as released by Lucasfilm Games (later to become LucasArts) in 1990. The Secret of Monkey Island is a humorous point-and-click adventure introducing wannabe pirate Guybrush Threepwood and his evil arch nemesis the pirate LeChuck.

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