Zak McKracken writes for a supermarket tabloid, and he is not good at it. After a strange dream, he starts to suspect the phone company is quietly making everyone dumber through their handsets, on behalf of visiting aliens. Armed with an odd crystal, Zak teams up with an anthropologist named Annie and two friends to chase the plot across the globe and beyond. You point and click through airports, far-flung locations, and lateral puzzles, juggling four characters and a lot of pocket junk. A wry, globe-trotting comedy from the early adventure-game era.