Crazy Machines: The Wacky Contraptions Game
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| Author: | FAKT Software/Pepper Games |
| Publisher: | Viva Media |
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Crazy Machines is a puzzle computer game. Many of its ideas are based on The Incredible Machine series of games. The player is given a set of mechanical components to construct a Rube Goldberg-style or Heath Robinson-style intricate machine to achieve a goal and advance to the next puzzle in the game. In the game, players build imaginative machines that turn cranks, rotate gears, pull levers, and more to build a unique contraption. The player can solve more than 200 challenging puzzles and experiment with gears, robots, explosives, and more in a virtual lab. The game uses a physics engine to simulate various in-game variables such as air pressure, electricity, gravity, and particle effects. (Wikipedia)
DL #1 is a hybrid Mac/PC disc image of the game CD
DL #2 is a disc image of the Mac version only.
CompatibilityArchitecture: PPC x86 (Windows)
1.25 GHz PPC G4
Mac OS X 10.3
256 MB RAM
60 MB hard drive space
32 MB ATI or nVidia graphic card
OpenGL 1.3
Comments
I spent hours with this game trying to figure out how to solve the puzzles. What a pleasure once you figure them out, especially the harder ones. I would keep coming back and back and back until I solved them (and only rarely cheated by checking up solutions on the www). I think this is also a great software to give out to kids as it greatly encourages creativity and "thinking outside the box". Great upload, thank you mrdav!