Kenneth Ellis

I’m going to name a movie, and then I want you to remember one thing from it that has stuck with you all these years since you first saw it. OK, “Pee Wees Big Adventure”. If you thought of the outlandish breakfast machine then I’m psychic and you’re predictable. My point, though, is that Kalypso Media is giving you the chance to create your own 3rd grade dream machine. A mechanical marvel all your own!

If you’re like me, born in the ’80s and male, then you probably wanted your room to be something like this here. (If you didn’t, then you’re lying.) You may also still have that need to develop a contraption that takes 40 seconds to turn your desk lamp on. Congratulations my friend, your time has come. “Crazy Machines” by Kalypso Media is out for PC, and only your imagination and the laws of physics can stop you!

Crazy Machines employs over 70 game elements such as candles, ropes, levers, and string to help you overcome 200+ challenges. Can you move a candle 5 inches with only your wits? Can you stack 4 balls on top of each other using pulleys and cannons? Can you? CAN YOU?! Lets hope so, Doc Brown. How else are you going to open your door? Hands? That’s soooo last year.

Cheapskates might also want to check this game out. Right now, Crazy Machines 1 and 1.5 are selling as a combo pack for about $20. That’s pretty good for two games. And we all know how well games and combos go together. (Killer Instinct)

Now I wouldn’t say this game is going to win any world awards or anything like that. But for the price and what its bringing to the table, it’s not too bad. And, if you’re going to play a game, it might as well be mentally stimulating and not some violent, mind-numbing, bloody battle. (Killer Instinct)

Here is a little in-game taste of Crazy Machines. Watch that candle being shoved around like… like something. (Killer Instinct?)

(Source: Games Press via Kalypso Media)