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Crazy Machines 1.5 Review (continued)
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Manufacturer: Viva Media
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Platform(s): Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000
Release Date: May 10, 2007
Average Rating: 5 out of 5 Stars
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Date: 2008-01-12
Great, mind growing fun
Bought this for my 9 yr old daughter and 6 yr old son. Found that I enjoyed it as much as they do. We have not found that the game required really precise positioning of items to solve the puzzles, as some have mentioned. But we've mostly been making our own machines anyway.
One small gripe: discovered that in Win XP Home, Limited Accounts are not able to run the game. Since many homes probably set up Limited accounts to minimize the damage young kids might do the operating system, etc., it's odd that the game doesn't run from these. So the kids have to log on to my account or my wife's to play it.
On the plus side, that does allow us to control access a bit more, and the game is a bit addictive!
We also had to upgrade our system. Our video card was an ancient 32 MB thing and probably not DirectX 9 comaptible.
The rest of our system was fine (800 Mhz Ahtlon, 512 MB RAM), but the cost of a video card these days is about equal to the cost of a new motherboard and RAM, so we went ahead and upgraded.
The game also crashed once on my laptop. I'm guessing I need to fine tune some video settings. Other than that one time, it has been stable.
Date: 2008-01-12
Great fun!
We purchased this game for my 8yr old and he loves it! He spends a long time trying different combination to accomplish the tasks. He loves both Crazy machines and Crazy Machines 1.5.
Date: 2008-01-07
Not as easy as it led to believe
I read the reviews for this in November, and thought it would be great for my 8 1/2 and almost 7 year old boys. They tried it out for a couple of hours, and became frustrated. The packaging did not come with any explicit instructions on how to approach the activities.
It took me a couple of tries to figure out what to do, and then explain it to my sons. Maybe I can get them back on it after things calm down a bit from all of the Christmas excitement and we can figure it out.
Date: 2007-12-31
Don't know how to rate
I wish I could really rate Crazy Machines 1.5 but I can't...because I see the package says it's just for Windows 98/ME/2000/XP so I can't use it on my Mac. I didn't read the specs on-line before buying because I thought it would play on a PC or Mac just like the first version. I hope a Mac version is available sometime, and I hope version 2 is available on Mac as well. Crazy Machines is too good to limit to PC users only.
Date: 2007-12-19
Given as a Gift, and Can't Get that "Old" Kid away from his Computer
I gave this as a gift to an engineer who's into such things (I can't figure out anything mechanical). According to his fiance, she can't tear him away from it, and it's been four months since his he got it. I love to see what he's come up with, the new Rube Goldberg contraptions he's created. They're really fun and funny and creative. I guess I'm a viewer, not a doer.
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