YMMV / Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders

• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: Was hugely popular in Germany, possibly even more so than it was in its own home country, with at least four fan sequels originating there.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Cash Cards have become quite popular 20 Minutes into the Future. Of course, we call them "Debit cards" these days. Sure, Debit cards have been around since the 1970s, but they have become much more common.
  • While it hasn't gotten quite to the extreme depicted in the game, the design of televisions has moved towards having few buttons on the TV itself, and most functions accessed by the remote control.
  • The Caponian's scheme wouldn't work today, as cell phones have largely replaced landline phones, and they don't have a dial tone.
  • There's chainsaw gas on Mars. In Doom, published five years later, one of the most iconic weapons in fighting demons near Mars is the chainsaw. (So we guess that's where Doomguy got the fuel.)
• Polished Port: The GOG release uses the FM Towns port of the game, which boasts superior graphics and audio to the other versions, and none of the Copy Protection.
• Scrappy Mechanic: Having to go to the airport and back to travel around the world and the need for connecting flights gets rancid very quickly. Traveling also costs good money, which discourages free, happy go lucky exploration early on, and even if Zak can get more money later, the rest of the characters don't, directly. A torpid logistic nuance that kills gameplay while only adding constriction and apprehension. To make it worse, in most versions, copy protection checks had to be passed in every flight outside the US.
• Suspiciously Similar Song: The music that plays on repeat in airports in The New Adventures sure does sound like the opening to Every Move You Make by The Police.
• Unintentional Period Piece: For one, the Democratic Republic of the Congo is referred to as Zaire. Airports with Hari Krishnas outside of them, and microwaves on airplanes. The term "coeds" is also considered sexist and dated nowadays.

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