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by Viva Media
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2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)

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Product Features

Platform: PC Download
  • Create your own unique contraptions
  • Solve more than 200 challenging puzzles
  • Put your machines to work
  • Cool Physics engine with air-pressure, electricity, gravity and particle effects
  • Experiment with gears, robots, explosives and more in your own virtual lab

Product Details

Game Manual: English [PDF]
  • Downloading: Currently, this item is available only to customers located in the United States and who have a U.S. billing address.
  • Note: Gifting is not available for this item.
  • ASIN: B001AU6TQ8
  • Release Date: March 1, 2008
  • Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,122 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
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Platform: PC Download

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Turn cranks, rotate gears, pull levers, and use catapults or any objects to build crazy machines with this fun software game. This brain teaser will lighten up imagination with creative and addictive fun.

Features:

  • Create your own unique contraptions
  • Solve more than 200 challenging puzzles
  • Put your machines to work
  • Cool Physics engine with air-pressure, electricity, gravity, and particle effects
  • Experiment with gears, robots, explosives, and more in your own virtual lab

Product Description

Turn the crank, rotate the gears, push the levers, Use the catapult, explode it, or fly it…..From the grilling sausages with a pulley, gears, rubber bands and a candle to firing a cannon with a basketball, these wacky brain-teasers will light up your imagination with creative and addictive fun!!

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11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars The Software May be Great, But I'll Never Know, December 24, 2008
This review is from: Crazy Machines 1 - The Wacky Contraptions Game [Download] (Software Download)
I downloaded this as a Christmas present for my kids. I've now spent the better part of 6 hours attempting to get it installed properly. The install process informs me that the Serial Number is wrong. Amazon says them's the breaks, and Viva Software appears to be out to lunch, perhaps permanently. This is precisely the sort of problem that makes downloadable apps such a crapshoot. Maybe it works, maybe not. But I doubt that I'll ever find out.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Fun, addictive game for kids and adults, works on XP not Vista, March 9, 2009
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This review is from: Crazy Machines 1 - The Wacky Contraptions Game [Download] (Software Download)
This game is just what I expected -- a series of kinetic puzzles and Rube Goldberg-style contraptions. That means you build, set things in motion and even blow things up. In each puzzle you have a few parts to use, various simple machines and more complex pieces like levers, basketballs, bombs, steam engines, pipes, candles, electric motors, ropes, pulleys, crossbows, magnets, and the list goes on.... It reminds me of the Incredible Machine game I enjoyed at a much younger age. My 8-year-old son and 5-year-old daughter each enjoy playing, though it seems to hold my attention the longest.

Now the techie side of things: Reading the other reviews, I was a bit concerned about the download and installation. Not to worry, it downloaded and installed just fine on our old XP machine. In the many hours playing through 102 levels, it did crash twice (the game, not the computer), but I could easily start the game again and continue where I left off. It did not work at all on Vista, and completely crashed the computer every time I tried to run it on Vista. So, when it says XP-compatible, it means XP-compatible. It looks like you can re-download from Amazon anytime, so in some ways, that's safer delivery than CD-based games that you could scratch or lose at any time, as anyone with young children knows can be a problem, especially with games that make you keep the CD in the drive for it to run. That's the good news. The bad news is I haven't figured out yet how to make this game run with Limited User Accounts, so until then, I'll just need to let the kids play the game on my account login, which has administrator privileges. The LUA issue was not such a big deal when this game was written, so this one gets a pass. If it was more recent software, I would dock it a star.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars dont work on windows 7!!!!, October 20, 2009
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I down loaded it thinking that it would work with windows 7. no such luck. I wish i would have bought the cd rom. wasted 14$...:(


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