The Incredible Machine

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Description

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.

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Alternate Titles

• "インクレヂィブル・マシーン" -- Japanese spelling

Part of the Following Groups

• Games that include map/level editor
• Genre: Rube Goldberg machine
• The Incredible Machine series

User Reviews

Dynamix goes all Acme on us	DOS	Zovni (10633)
Brilliant puzzler	DOS	Condemned (75)
This one takes brains to play	DOS	Mullet of Death (653)
Wiley Coyote Fantasies	DOS	Darin McCoy (11)

Critic Reviews

Top Secret	DOS	Jul, 1993	10 out of 10	100
Power Play	DOS	Jan, 1993	90 out of 100	90
Play Time	DOS	Feb, 1993	81 out of 100	81
PC Joker	DOS	Feb, 1993	80 out of 100	80
Dragon	DOS	May, 1993		80
Digitiser	DOS	Jan 10, 1993	4 out of 5	80
Joker Verlag präsentiert: Sonderheft	DOS	1993	80 out of 100	80
PC Player (Germany)	DOS	Jan, 1993	74 out of 100	74
The Retro Spirit	DOS	Dec 12, 2005	4 out of 6	67
Computer Gaming World (CGW)	DOS	Apr, 1993	Unscored	Unscored

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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

Related Web Sites

• 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)