Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Found this old promo for The Incredible Machine 2 and it is such a perfect snapshot of what PC gaming looked like in 1994.
Sierra On-Line published this one in 1994, built by Jeff Tunnell Productions, and it was the direct sequel to the original Incredible Machine from 1992. The whole idea was building Rube Goldberg style contraptions out of the strangest parts imaginable, cats, lava lamps, monkeys on treadmills, super balls, whatever it took to get a ball into a basket or flip a switch across the screen. This sequel added a stack of new levels, more parts, a two player hotseat mode, and a much deeper freeform editor that let you design and share your own puzzles.
It actually won Computer Gaming World's Readers Choice award for best puzzle game of 1995, and the CD version shipped with a real recorded soundtrack instead of MIDI, ranging from blues to prog rock, which was a pretty unusual choice for a game about swinging boots and bowling balls. The franchise kept going for years after this one, and through a chain of studio buyouts, the rights to the whole series actually ended up owned by Disney.
Did any of you grow up building these wild machines on an old family computer? Let me know down below.
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Found this old promo for The Incredible Machine 2 and it is such a perfect snapshot of what PC gaming looked like in 1994.
Sierra On-Line published this one in 1994, built by Jeff Tunnell Productions, and it was the direct sequel to the original Incredible Machine from 1992. The whole idea was building Rube Goldberg style contraptions out of the strangest parts imaginable, cats, lava lamps, monkeys on treadmills, super balls, whatever it took to get a ball into a basket or flip a switch across the screen. This sequel added a stack of new levels, more parts, a two player hotseat mode, and a much deeper freeform editor that let you design and share your own puzzles.
It actually won Computer Gaming World's Readers Choice award for best puzzle game of 1995, and the CD version shipped with a real recorded soundtrack instead of MIDI, ranging from blues to prog rock, which was a pretty unusual choice for a game about swinging boots and bowling balls. The franchise kept going for years after this one, and through a chain of studio buyouts, the rights to the whole series actually ended up owned by Disney.
Did any of you grow up building these wild machines on an old family computer? Let me know down below.
Subscribe to Game Forest GF for retro gaming content every single day.
#incrediblemachine2 #sierraonline #pcgaming #90spcgames #retrogaming #puzzlegames #msdos #90scomputers #retropcgaming #classicgaming #vintagegaming #90snostalgia #dosgames #gamehistory #gameforestgf #youtubeshorts #gaming
