The Incredible Machine
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The Incredible Machine is a puzzle game where the player has to assemble a Rube Goldberg-type contraption to solve a simple puzzle.
The game consists of a series of puzzles, each having a simple objective, such as "put the baseball into the basket" or "turn on the fan". To achieve this, the player is given a number of parts such as: balls, girders, rope, balloons, seesaws, cats or monkeys, and his job is to arrange and connect them on the playfield, so that, upon clicking the "start puzzle" button, the whole contraption activates and achieves the objective.
For added difficulty, some puzzles have different gravity or air pressure from that of Earth.
There is also a freeform mode where the player is given an unlimited number of parts to construct a machine of his own invention. The machines created this way can be saved to disk.
Spellings
- インクレヂィブル・マシーン - Japanese spelling
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Credits (DOS version)
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Reviews
Discussion
| Subject | User | Date |
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| No Mac version | Terok Nor | 2022-08-09 08:30:59 |
Trivia
1001 Video Games
The Incredible Machine appears in the book 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die by General Editor Tony Mott.
Holidays
If you were playing the game on Christmas or Valentines Day, you would get a heart shaped balloon (indestructible) or a Christmas tree (rather useless).
Awards
- Computer Gaming World
- November 1996 (15th anniversary issue) – #62 in the “150 Best Games of All Time” list
- September 2006 (Issue #266) – Introduced into the Hall of Fame
Information also contributed by PCGamer77
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Level Cheat Codes
Password codes for all of the levels - even the Secret ones. -
S&F Prod.'s The Incredible Machine Page
Here you'll find a homemade machine and cheats. -
Solution
Walkthrough with strategies on how to solve everything
Identifiers +
- MobyGames ID: 2473
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Contributors to this Entry
Game added by elron.
FM Towns added by Terok Nor. PC-98 added by Unicorn Lynx.
Additional contributors: Jeanne, Frenkel, quickie, Ms. Tea, Patrick Bregger, FatherJack.
Last modified February 27th, 2023.