The Incredible Machine

[2Dskillz]

Does anyone remember these games by Sierra? Simple graphics, off the wall goals. Precise methods for completion.

By far some of my favorite PC gaming.

The only problem I have now is the complete inability to run them. I remember playing 1 and 2. Were more made beyond that? Who's brain child were the Incredible Machine games? Any way to play them on my modern PC?

There seem to be a number of Sierra fans, enlighten me.

[GrandAmChandler]

According to Wikipedia, there are many versions!

* The Incredible Machine (1993, MS-DOS)
* The Even More Incredible Machine (1993, MS-DOS)
* The Incredible Machine 2 (1994, MS-DOS)
* The Incredible Machine - Version 3.0 (1995, Microsoft Windows)
* Return of the Incredible Machine: Contraptions (2000, Microsoft Windows)
* The Incredible Machine: Even More Contraptions (2001, Microsoft Windows)

I know I played the first two listed to death. Incredible.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incredible_Machine

[NE146]

Well.. the games are very easy to find online of course (#oldgames on efnet for example). Now whether it can be played on a typical xp machine.. I dont know. I liked these games too.. I think I'll try and snag the first one and give it a shot. I'll let you know how it goes.

[NE146]

Yep! Took all of a minute to find the game. Then I tried running it on my xp box here... no dice. So, I looked for dosbox, downloaded, then ran it in that. Success in less than 5 minutes

...well, at least for the original game. I hear Incredible Machine 3 runs fine in windows as well.

[Jumpman Jr.]

Oh my god, yes!
This was also one of my favorite games as a kid. I remember playing it in school every time our teacher would give us "free computer time" in grades 5 or 6.
I also remember when I graduated from elementary school (finishing grade 6 ), my parents bought me the game as a graduation present.
Hours upon hours were spent playing this game for me. Just looking at that picture brings back so many memories.

[Jibbajaba]

I want to say I was in about 9th grade when this game came out, and I spent many an hour on it. What a great game. I recall that it had cool music and sound effects as well. I might have to fire up a round of this when I get home.

I believe it also came out for the 3DO...

Chris

[ubikuberalles]

About three and a half years ago, when the factory I was working at was in the process of shutting down, a lot of us were unmotivated and bored. One of my co-workers brought to work a couple Incredible machine games and we spent the next few weeks playing it. I don't remember which versions they were but they were probably "Return of the Incredible Machine: Contraptions" and "The Incredible Machine: Even More Contraptions". Whatever they were they worked fine on W2K Pro machines without any DOSBox or other emulators. I think I still have the program files and so I should check to see of they work on Win XP.

Fun stuff. The very last stage of the very last game was very hard to do and I couldn't figure out how to solve it. So I cheated by searching for the answer on the Internet. I took the opportunity to flaunt my success in front of one of my co-workers - who was very competitive - and, man, was he pissed! Then he found out I cheated! I never heard the end of that.

[cyberfluxor]

Whatever they were they worked fine on W2K Pro machines without any DOSBox or other emulators.

Same.

Really fun brain game. I was introduced to it back around '97 in a general science class. Was fun as hell and everyone would crack away at what seemed a bit complex to us at that age. It was a real treat when it was your turn and continued to see it show up in class rooms until around 2000.

A few years back I found it and installed it, backing a copy up on a drive as well as to not lose the software. It's been a great game and would be interesting to see a newer release of it, possibly some 3D themes.

[dimerethiel]

I´ve found this download site for old The Incredible Machine game:
The Incredible Machine download

[GM80]

There's a game from Pepper Games called "Crazy Machines" that publicly pays homage to the Incredible Machine series. It's the same kinda stuff updated with a real-time 3D engine, same point of view. Just as fun as the old ones.

It ships with MAC/PC versions on the disc, found it at Target just last week on clearance for $5. Can't beat that.

[wallydawg]

I played one of the newer ones in architecture during high school instead of, you know, actually working.

[ZackyH]

Yeah, the technology labs at the high school I went to had that game.

[T2KFreeker]

Hmm, I know this may not be welcomed here, but Incredible Machine was released for the 3DO system as well and still one of the most popular games for the system. I also can say that the game was initially created by a company called Dynamix. Not sure if they are still around though these days.