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{{quote|''"Roll the baseball down the ramp that triggers the boxing glove that pushes the bowling ball that strikes the teeter-totter that launches the tennis ball that bounces off the trampoline and powers the bellows to fan the mill to crank the gears to spring the toy that sends the basketball down the drain pipe off the pinball bumper flipping on the beam that travels through the glass that lights the fuse that fires the cannon! Welcome to [[Title Drop|the Incredible Machine]]..."''
|'''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}CyIdAaa4WHI Advertisement for ''The Incredible Machine 2'']'''}}
{{quote|''[[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|"Blow up the fish tank with the missile."]]''|'''Professor Tim'''}}
A [[Puzzle Game]] published by [[Sierra Online|Sierra Entertainment]] in 1992, ''The Incredible Machine'' (
The game's family-friendly quality and subtle moments of humor and satisfaction led to widespread popularity. Over the course of nine years, seven more titles were released, and the series has since been a recipient of several awards.
For the more modern variant, see ''[[Crazy Machines]]''.
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* [[Cosmic Plaything]]: The game's resident mindless mini-human
* [[Cruelty Is the Only Option]]: A notable example occurs in ''The Incredible Machine: Even More Contraptions'', where the player is forced to goad a mouse out of its home using cheese in order to feed the mouse to an alligator.
* [[Exactly What It Says
* [[Excuse Plot]]: In ''The Incredible Machine: Even More Contraptions'', earning a Doctorate of Contrapology.
* [[Made of Iron]]: The small human character can withstand just about anything aside from being eaten.
** Falling too far will knock him out
* [[Public Domain Soundtrack]]: ''Pictures
* [[Rube Goldberg Device]]:
* [[Selective Gravity]]: Generally speaking, objects can be classified into those that are fixed in place (conveyors, seesaws, etc
* [[Spiritual Successor]]: 2006's ''[[Crazy Machines]]''.
* [[Stock Scream]]: Mel when he falls off stuff.
* [[Stuff Blowing Up]]: Easily caused by vials of nitroglycerin, where even a ''fan'' blowing air against it can set it off.
* [[The Voice]]: Professor Tim.▼
* [[Units Not to Scale]]: Several instances, such as basketballs being larger than houses.
* [[Video Game Cruelty Potential]]: Feeding Mel to the Alligator, feeding the cat the mouse.
* [[Vocal Dissonance]]: The mandrill's yawn in ''The Incredible Machine: Even More Contraptions'' is unexpectedly loud and deep.
▲* [[The Voice]]: Professor Tim.
* [[Wide Open Sandbox]]: The Build Contraptions option.
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