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MY DISABILITIES DEPOT - Crazy Machines: The Wacky Contraptions Game
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List Price: $19.99
Our Price: $19.99
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Manufacturer: Viva Media
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Average Customer Rating:  
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Batteries Included: 0
Binding: Video Game
Brand: Viva Media
EAN: 0838639002283
ESRB Age Rating: Everyone
Feature: Build imaginative machines in this creative and addictively fun brainteaser
Format: CD
Label: Viva Media
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
Manufacturer: Viva Media
Platform: Windows Vista
Publisher: Viva Media
Release Date: 2005-10-01
Studio: Viva Media
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Features
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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
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Editorial Reviews:
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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!!
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Creative Genius!!
Comment: Just the type of 'game' I was looking for after watching my grandson play Gary Gadget, also by Viva Media. This allows the freestyle building that boys with great imagination are so good at. I chose to start with the first version of Crazy Machines because it's both Mac and PC compatible, so I was able to put it on both our computers and we had fun learning and inventing at the same time.
My grandson at nine was a lot better at figuring out what to do with some of the components, but it wasn't long before I caught on and built my first working experiment. I used a crossbow to shoot and pop a rising balloon by using weights to trigger the action.
I really like the over 200 built in experiments which are great learning tools. Travis and I reinforce each other in the process. He's into chain reaction right now, so this game really keeps his attention but surprisingly, I really enjoy it too. How many kid games can you say that about!
All fun and always new!
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Summary: very stimulating
Comment: Love this game. Very stimulating. covers all areas of what I need to really enjoy this game.
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Summary: Awesome! My neice loved this product!
Comment: My sister originally let my neice try a similar program similar to this on a Windows 7 computer with a touch screen monitor. My neice totally enjoyed the program and wa slearning quite a bit with it. When my sister ended up losing that computer system, she asked me to search for a comparable program that will work on a non-touchscreen system and this is what I found. We have had it now for nearly a month and my neice still loves playing it and always makes sure to have homework and chores done as quickly as she can in order to play it everyday.
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Summary: Challenging and fun
Comment: This game has my 9 yr old challenged, occasionally frustrated, but overall very entertained. The professor is annoying, but so far the rest of the game is just great. It's the sort of game that requires thinking that can spill out into the real world--on the first day she played it we ended up talking about motors, generators and energy conversion.
Works on Windows 7 64-bit after some compatibility adjustments. I forget precisely what I did, but I think I had to run the installer under XP service pack 2 compatibility.
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Summary: Fun game -- for Kids & Parents Together
Comment: My son and I have had fun playing this game together. He is 10 (I'm a bit older). Some of the puzzle/scenarios are pretty easy, while others are more challenging. The more complicated ones may offer more than one possible solution --we've had a couple of solutions that are different than the designer's "plan". I agree with previous reviews that kids can learn a little about physics, too. We discuss possible solutions together and try them out, and so the process is the real value in the game.
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