The Incredible Machine

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The Incredible Machine
Studio United StatesUnited States Dynamix
Publisher United StatesUnited States Sierra Entertainment
Senior Developer Kevin Ryan and Jeff Tunnell
Erstveröffent-
lichung		 1992
platform MS-DOS , Mac OS , 3DO , Windows
genre Computer puzzle game
Game mode Single player ,
control Keyboard , mouse

The Incredible Machine is a series of computer games developed by Kevin Ryan and Jeff Tunnell and worked for the developer Dynamix . The games were distributed by Sierra Entertainment . In Germany, the game appeared under the name of Professor Tim's crazy workshop .

The aim of the games is always to build machines with the help of various utensils, each of which is supposed to perform a specific task. In addition to technical components such as gear wheels and conveyor belts, household and leisure items as well as some animals are available as utensils. At the beginning of each puzzle, some components of the machine are already placed and thus specified. All other components must be used by the player in such a way that an - often complicated - chain reaction arises, at the end of which the mostly simple task is solved. The machines built are therefore so-called Rube-Goldberg machines .

The games each offer a number of different such puzzles, divided into several levels of difficulty. There is also a mode for two players and the possibility of building your own machines that can be put in front of other players to solve, for example.

Versions:

  • The Incredible Machine (1992, for MS-DOS , Mac OS and 3DO )
  • The Even More Incredible Machine (1993, DOS, Microsoft Windows and Mac)
  • The Incredible Machine 2 (1994, DOS and Mac) (In Germany also sold as "Professor Tim's crazy workshop")
  • The Incredible Machine 3 (1995, for Microsoft Windows and Mac)
  • Return of The Incredible Machine: Contraptions (2000 Windows and Mac) (In Germany also sold as "Professor Tim: Return of the crazy workshop")
  • The Incredible Machine: Even More Contraptions (2001 Windows and Mac)

Some of the versions are now offered as abandonware .

The offshoots of the series licensed by Dynamix include the games Sid & Al's Incredible Toons for IBM PC and the Japan-exclusive Arthur to Astaroth no Nazomakaimura: Incredible Toons (Japanese: ア ー サ ー と ア ス タ ロ ト の 謎 魔界 村 イ ン ク レ ル デ die) for the first ク デ ィPlayStation .

Similar games: Crazy Machines , Contraption Maker

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