The Incredible Machine

[Saucy Jack]

Not sure if this goes in Old School or PC; if I made the wrong choice, I apologize.

I was just thinking about going to school when I was young, and I remembered playing this game. It was pretty fun; you'd use different items to solve puzzles. For example, you might need to catch a rat, and you'd drop a bowling ball into a basket, that flips over, turning a wheel, which causes a switch to be pressed, letting a cat out of a cage to catch the rat.

I looked around, and saw that they haven't made a recent version of it. All I see is the old school version, and one that works for Windows 95/98.

I have Windows XP Home Edition. What would be the best version to buy, and the best deal, if there is any, so that I can relive my childhood?

 

[Scorch]

Try this one: http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?gameid=537

People say that #3 works on XP.. http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?id=538

 

[crystalklear64]

Hell yeah! Incredible Machine all the way! I have the original copy and it works fine on Windows XP if you run it in Windows 98 mode.

 

[howlinmad]

I used to love this game. I found one at Target in a bin full of $1.00 games in budget game packaging about 7 or 8 months ago actually.

 

[Saucy Jack]

Cool. Glad to see others liked the game, too. Thanks for the links, Scorch.

Howlinmad, I think I remember hearing about the Target $1 games version, but I was never able to find it. I guess I'll keep looking out.

 

[Saucy Jack]

Tried Version 3.0, and it installed OK. However, when I started it up, it would always crash. (sigh)

Would the DOS version work?

 

[Javery]

The Incredible Machine rules. I've a copy called The Incredible Machine: Contraptions (or something) - it came out a few years ago and is really fun. I think this is it... http://www.gamespot.com/pc/puzzle/returnoftheimc/review.html

NM: it was called The Incredible Machine: Even More Contraptions and it came out in 2001...

 

[Javery]

Here's the list:

The Incredible Machine (1992)
The Incredible Machine 2 (1994)
The Incredible Toon Machine (1994)
The Incredible Machine 3.0 (1995)
The Even More Incredible Machine (1996)
Return of the Incredible Machine: Contraptions (2000)
The Incredible Machine: Even More Contraptions (2001)

 

[VidPower]

Man, The Incredible Machine brings back so many memories. They even encouraged us to play this game in one of the Technology classes in high school.

 

[Old Negus]

Try this one, "Chain Reaction". It's by the same guys who made TIM:

http://www.garagegames.com/products/7

 

[Saucy Jack]

Chain Reaction looks interesting.

Well, I got the DOS version to work! Yippee!