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Crazy Machines: The Wacky Contraptions Game Win/Mac Review

 
Manufacturer: Viva Media
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Platform(s): Mac OS X, Windows XP
Release Date: October 1, 2005

Average Rating: 4 out of 5 Stars


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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

User Submitted Crazy Machines: The Wacky Contraptions Game Win/Mac Reviews (cont...)


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Date: 2007-07-30
Should carry a warning: Highly addictive
Purchased this for my 12yo son. He got his 9 yo brother hooked. I decided to take a look and see what it was all about and spent the next day at work yawning 'cause I stayed up WAY TOO late just doing one more puzzle... and then just one more.... My husband is the only one who hasn't gotten hooked on it yet - due to our warnings and lack of access to the computer to play!

Some of the puzzles get a little frustrating but there is a "cheat file" with screenshots of solutions to resort to. It is often a matter of just a very fine difference between solution and failure, and hard to see, but so far we haven't come across one we couldn't figure out. The boys love being able to set up a screen full of explosions and just letting it go in their own "free form" designs.

Date: 2007-07-19
Crazy Machines: The Wacky Contraptions Game
I bought this game for my grandson's 9th birthday. He thinks it is the greatest--so does his Dad.

Date: 2007-07-16
Great Puzzle gmae
This is a great puzzle game. If you like shooting a cannon to turn on a switch to start a fan to blow a blimb to... You get the idea. Fun fun fun!

Date: 2007-07-08
Problems running on Intel Mac or G4 Tower
I had hoped to purchase this well reviewed game so that my son could enjoy playing with all the various puzzles, gears etc (ever since Lego took down their online game of a similar nature) -- well disappointment. Does not run properly on my Intel iMac - and then it also does not run on my older G4 Mac Tower. Emails to the vendor's website go unanswered, but I hold out hope, that maybe I will purchase a used Dual G5 tower down the road, and then I might enjoy this bargain of a software package.

Date: 2007-07-07
Fun and really makes you think
Bought for 7 year old as a bday gift. He loves to figure stuff out this was perfect for him. I also enjoy playing, we work as a team to breainstorm and come up with different plans. I think this would be a good game in the classroom also.


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