Editorial Review
Step into our lab, don the whitecoat, and join us for lots of outrageous, inventive, experimental fun.
In the Return of the Incredible Machine: Contraptions, you're the inventor asyou attempt to solve over 250 wildly imaginative puzzles. Create incrediblemachines out of a diverse assortment of crazy and colorful parts, ranging fromropes, pulleys, and bowling balls, to cheese driven mouse motors. And aftersolving the puzzles, make your own with the built-in puzzle editor!
- Over 250 unique and challenging "Contraptions" to solve, most with multiple solutions!
- Create and save your own puzzles to share with friends. Over 100 different parts to mix and match.
- Certain Programmable Parts allow for truly custom puzzles. Accurate physics models create realistic interactions between parts.
- Change the gravity and air pressure for each "Contraption" to simulate different worlds, or outer space. Go head-to-head with a friend in the two-player mode, and see who can solve the "Contraption" first.
- An in-depth tutorial teaches you about the parts, and how they work.
- Windows 95, 98, 2000, XP
- Pentium 90MHz processor
- 32MB of RAM
- 50MB of Hard Drive Space
- Windows-compatible Sound Card
- 4X CD-ROM Drive
- Mouse
- Keyboard
Software pictured here is represented by the packaging for easier viewing. You will receive actual software on CD.
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Customer Reviews
Addictive 
2008-01-13
I haven't seen my son since he got this game for Christmas. I hear, "Mom! I made another gizmo!" all day long.
Excellent Mind Bender 2007-12-26
This is an excellent program to stretch the limits of your mind. The easy puzzles are okay for children, but the advanced are definitely for teen to adult. The graphics are a little retro. And the CD must be left in the drive while playing (there is a No-CD patch available at [...]).
THE INCREDIBLE MACHINE IS INCREDIBLE!! 2007-12-21
I found The Incredible Machine back in 1992 when it was first released. I was so disappointed when I ran out of new puzzles!! Then they brought out another pack of additional puzzles and I was off again! Very disappointed when I ran out of puzzles again! I just recently discovered that there was a NEW T.I.M. 3.0, so I purchased that also! It took me about a month of part-time play to complete the 166 puzzles in 3.0 and I was disappointed again because I had no more puzzles to solve. Then I discovered "T.I.M.~ Even more contraptions". I am in "Hog Heaven" again! This program is the best I've ever purchased! Great for kids and adults also. Great to work together with your kids too! Each player can have their own 'account' so you can compare each player's progress and share hints and tricks with your family as you move along. The puzzles teach a little bit of physics, a lot of logic and best of all, a LOT of FUN!! Besides the fun, it teaches the players how to USE THEIR BRAIN for something other than devising ways to KILL opponents. I rate this program 'GE' for Generally Everyone, 'GFF' for Great Family Fun and 'GBE' for Great Brain Exercise. Unlike most of the games written for the computer generation, this one has ABSOLUTELY NO BLOOD AND GUTS and nobody gets hurt or killed, unless you get a stitch in your side from laughing so much, or fall out of your chair from having so much Fun. I give Every issue of T.I.M. (5) STARS. There is absolutely no more FUN to be found in Computer Game Land. I suggest you get your own copy and find out for yourself, before they sell out! HOURS AND HOURS AND HOURS of GREAT FAMILY FUN!!
the incredible machine 2007-05-07
the sixth graders really enjoy working with the program. They learn alot of problem solving. "Thinking outside the box" We will use it also with seventh and eighth graders as well.
Not as good as the original. 
2007-05-05
I bought this game because I am a huge fan of the original game that came out in the 90's. Unfortunately it isn't as good as that one, and often times is much more annoying. It's not as hard as the original either. Also the music is terrible compared to the amazing tracks from the original game, and I wish I could turn off that guy's annoying voice.
What I really would like would be for this company to release the original game again in a way that is supported by the latest versions of Windows. I still have my old disk but it won't run anymore. Quite a shame. :(
Even More! Contraptions Galore! 2005-11-20
Step into our lab, don the whitecoat, and join us for lots of outrageous, inventive, experimental fun.
In the Return of the Incredible Machine: Contraptions, you're the inventor asyou attempt to solve over 250 wildly imaginative puzzles. Create incrediblemachines out of a diverse assortment of crazy and colorful parts, ranging fromropes, pulleys, and bowling balls, to cheese driven mouse motors. And aftersolving the puzzles, make your own with the built-in puzzle editor!
- Over 250 unique and challenging "Contraptions" to solve, most with multiple solutions!
- Create and save your own puzzles to share with friends. Over 100 different parts to mix and match.
- Certain Programmable Parts allow for truly custom puzzles. Accurate physics models create realistic interactions between parts.
- Change the gravity and air pressure for each "Contraption" to simulate different worlds, or outer space. Go head-to-head with a friend in the two-player mode, and see who can solve the "Contraption" first.
- An in-depth tutorial teaches you about the parts, and how they work.
- Windows 95, 98, 2000, XP
- Pentium 90MHz processor
- 32MB of RAM
- 50MB of Hard Drive Space
- Windows-compatible Sound Card
- 4X CD-ROM Drive
- Mouse
- Keyboard
Software pictured here is represented by the packaging for easier viewing. You will receive actual software on CD.
Crazy Machines Style game 2005-11-06
I love this kind of smart software for kids. I would give it more stars but it is dated.
The Incredible Machine Strikes Again! 2005-03-31
We had to play this game in school in our tech ed. class. Every day, I found myself wanting badly to go to 3rd Hour(My tech ed. class.) I would recomend this game to everyone.
I Think It Is The Best Program I Played! I Love It! 2004-12-05
I think this software is the best program I've played
in my life! I first played it at school and everyone
thought it was hard except for me. It is very
challenging just when you you get to the easy
level. Once I got it for Christmas one year, and
I couldn't stop playing it. My mom was amazed when
she saw me completing the contraptions so fast. There's
over 100 contraptions. This software is worth the money.
I highly recommend it for anyone.
Doesn't turn your brain into mush! 2004-08-04
I first played the game at school and loved it! Some people may say it is hard it is really very fun! But you have to think about it! If you say it is boring that is becase you just went straight ahead and failed didn't even think that mabye your contraption doesn't work! It is a great game for schools because it is a thinking game and it is one of the funnist games I know of! I think even if you aren't a good thinking game person it is still a great game, because you can take as much time as you want and think about it! Also it isn't one of those games that warps your brain into mush! It makes you think and not just sit there and stare at a computer! You actually DO something! It is a great game for any age that can think! I am 11 and I love it and I know of a 5 year old who loves it! Even my dad would love if I could get him to buy it for me! A great game a I recommend it for All!
