Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders/Prices

This is a list of items you can buy in the game and their prices.


 * Phone bill: $1138 (free if you are disguised)
 * -$10 penalty if you have drawn in the book


 * Guitar: $139
 * Nose glasses:$3
 * Golf club:$75
 * Hat:$15
 * Tool kit:$45
 * Wet suit:$145
 * Taking the SFO 42 bus to the airport: $8
 * Book from the devotee: $42
 * Taking the yak to Katmandu airport: $100
 * Paying the Shaman to repeat the sacred dance: $1000
 * Lotto ticket:$10
 * Face Area Rapid Transit token:$100

There are also several ways to win some money.
 * Selling the butter knife: $100
 * Selling the bent butter knife: $1500
 * Selling the remote control: $50
 * Selling the blue crystal: $250
 * Selling the yellow crystal: $500
 * Selling the yellow crystal shard: $60
 * Winning the lottery: $10000

Money between characters
Initial balance of each character:
 * Zak McKracken:$12250
 * Annie Larris: $5450
 * Melissa China:$1138
 * Leslie Bennett:$342

Money can't be shared and CashCards can't be given to another person. However there are several ways to share money.
 * At Lou's Loans, Character A can give one of the sellable items to Character B. B then can sell it to Lou, and A can buy it and repeat the procedure.
 * At any airport, Character A can buy a ticket from the reservations terminal and give it to Character B. When B uses the terminal again, the ticket is refunded.
 * Melissa and Leslie can't share nor win any more money than they have. In any case, they won't need more than $400 in total.

Airway fares
Traveling throughout the world of Zak McKracken takes up money. To search around might require jumping from plane to plane until reaching a certain destination. This table shows the available destinations from each airport.

Notice that there is a neat symmetry between a departure, a destination, and the ticket price. This means that if you travel from place A to place B for a certain price, this always means that you can return from place B to place A for the same price. The only exception is Miami: you can travel there from Seattle but you can't return to Seattle; instead you can travel to Mexico, despite that from Mexico you can't return to Miam.

Bermuda Triangle is not included here; it can be traveled only through Miami for $99. This leads to the alien ship, where you may either return to Miami airport, teleport home, or land in the ocean.

Notice that traveling from the USA outside the USA requires the 'Exit Visa Codes', which is the game's copy protection. If you don't have the original game, you can can spend the game only by traveling inside the USA, and won't be able to complete it.