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.

	to San Francisco	to Seattle	to London	to Miami	to Katmandu	to Kinshasa	to Cairo	to Lima	to Mexico
From San Francisco		$260	$808	$305				$937	$295
From Seattle	$260			$407
From London	$808			$511	$1589		$795		$779
From Miami	$305		$511				$1316		$271
From Katmandu			$1589			$1399	$1033
From Kinshasa					$1399		$644
From Cairo			$795	$1316	$1033	$644
From Lima	$937								$691
From Mexico	$295		$779	$271				$691