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- REVIEW
- THE INCREDIBLE TOON MACHINE from SIERRA
- FORMAT: PC/CD-ROM
- DATE: DECEMBER
- PRICE: N/A
-
- Al the cat and Sid the mouse are back in a new windows version of "The
- Incredible Toon Machine". Twist your brain through 130 new mind-crushing
- puzzles, or design your own from a choice of over 71 gadgets in the
- Hometoons.
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- The game is available in two versions: floppy and on CD-ROM. The CD version
- adds features such as CD-quality tunes ranging from classical music to hard
- rock, cartoon animations featuring Sid and Al, dialogues for the explanation
- of your goals, and a cartoon introduction that resembles Itchy and Scratchy
- (tm).
-
- You have three choices to choose from in the main menu: Solve-A-Puzzle,
- Head-2-Head, and Hometoons.
-
- In Solve-a-puzzle, you start with very easy puzzles which introduce the
- basic elements and the two characters. It is mainly like a tutorial at the
- beginning, but you really have to follow it through if you are not familiar
- with the Incredible Toon or Incredible Machine series.
-
- As written above, 130 puzzles are included in the game with the difficulty
- increasing from level to level. Each gadget can be manipulated with handles.
- These handles appear around the gadget when you move it on the main screen
- of the puzzle. With the accordion, you can stretch a part to the right, but
- with the worm it is to the left. The spring will stretch it downward and the
- flower upward. Among the gadgets, only seven have a specific handle called
- computer that will modify the function. For example, you will be able to
- change the number of eggs Hildegard the hen will lay, or choose how many
- bullets the gun will shoot.
-
- You will have a lot of fun trying possibly billions of possibilities to
- solve the puzzle, keeping in mind that only a few and sometimes only one will
- work correctly.
-
- Head-2-Head is divided into two sections: the single or tournament match.
- With the first option, single, only one puzzle will be offered. The second
- option, tournament, lets you decide how many games you want to play.
- In this Head-2-Head game, players decide who will be Sid and who will be Al.
- Then, a menu will let you enter the allotted time for each character's turn.
- Remember, the first person to solve the puzzle will be the winner. Each
- player places only one object during their turn. If you have no idea as to
- how to solve the puzzle and you see that your opponent is well on their way
- to solving it, you can always try to sabotage the solution, having more time
- to come up with your own. This feature, although only available for two
- players on the same computer, brings many challenges to both players.
-
- The third choice, Hometoons, lets your creativity design its own
- brain-squeezing levels. You can choose to create easy ones as well as
- nightmarish levels requiring dozens of gadgets in order to solve the puzzle.
- The Hometoons control panel offers several options. The load/save option
- will enable you to save your piece of artwork (so that you can share it
- with friends or anyone else), and to load existing levels to modify them for
- example. In the clapper, you write the title and the goal of the puzzle to
- make it easier for others to know what they have to do to solve it. The
- honker is the place where you choose the music and sounds among a wide
- selection. There are also the Nuke-a-Toon and Check List options. Nuke-a-Toon
- will erase a toon, and Check List will provide you with the list of steps
- needed to make a toon, so that you do not forget any actions.
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- Conclusion│
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- If you like puzzles and cartoon characters, this game is made just for you.
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- SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: │
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- 386-SX or better,
- Min 4 MB memory,
- MS-DOS 5.0 or later,
- Hard drive required,
- Single speed CD-ROM drive (150 Kb/s) or faster,
- VGA 256 color graphic card and monitor,
- Microsoft Mouse or 100% compatible supported,
- All sound cards supported.
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- └────────┘ └─────┘ │Tel: 800-757-7707
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