Crazy Machines: The Wacky Contraptions Game

by Viva Media

Product Features

• Build imaginative machines in this creative and addictively fun brainteaser
• Turn cranks, rotate gears, pull levers, and more to build unique contraptions
• Solve more than 200 challenging puzzles; put your machines to work
• Physics engine with air-pressure, electricity, gravity, and particle effects
• Experiment with gears, robots, explosives, and more in your own virtual lab

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B000B642OI
• Item model number: 00228
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 24, 2005
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (148 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #196 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #2 in Software > Children's Software > Games
  • #21 in Video Games > Mac Games

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

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 grilling sausages with a pulley, gears, rubberbands and a candle to firing a cannon with a basketball, these wacky brainteasers will light up your imagination with creative and addictive fun!!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

150 of 156 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Game, Poorly Documented, December 7, 2005

By 

J. Garson "artist and technophile" (Hue-stone, Tejas) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

Amazon Verified Purchase

This review is from: Crazy Machines: The Wacky Contraptions Game (CD-ROM)

First of all, let me say that this is a great game. It's loads of fun for the whole family to play, and it runs smoothly on even my older Mac G4.

That said. My whole family was stumped about what to do when plugging cords into machines in the game. If you've run out of plugs, the other end of the cord just floats there, and you cannot continue the game! Nowhere in the manual does it mention that you can give up on a cord by pressing the 'ESC' key. I suppose that's a good key to choose, and it makes sense, but they simply forgot to mention it in the manual, and we wasted a whole day trying to play the game and getting stuck over and over.

95 of 97 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars North Dakota Kid, September 23, 2006

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Crazy Machines: The Wacky Contraptions Game (CD-ROM)

I am 8 years old and I got Crazy Machines for my Birthday. This is the best game in the world but if you don't like complicated things you won't this game. The four main things are fire, rope, electronics,and the next one I will let you discover. You can either build your own machine or you can figure out problems that may seem hard but after you've done them awhile they are easy. Some of the things that you can build with are boards, balls, robots, cannons, goo, blimps, cords, gravity controlers, scissors, tubes, and plants. Buy this game and have tons of fun!

219 of 235 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Super Fun!, October 20, 2005

By 

PA Mom (NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Crazy Machines: The Wacky Contraptions Game (CD-ROM)

This is an awesome, good, clean game that will provide hours and hours of entertainment. Remember Rube Goldberg? You can build Rube Goldberg-esque machines and put them into motion. You can also "solve" puzzles by figuring out what things to put where to make your crazy machine do something - like lighting a candle or launching a rocket.
Our kids also like to work together and also with their friends - not always something we see when they play on the computer - so it's great for families and friends to play all together. I like the way the people who made this smuggled the physics in there with the fun. How nice to see intelligence combined with real fun.
(We got this for our kids but we are having fun with it too.)