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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.
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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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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┌────────┐ ┌─────┐ │Sierra On-Line Ltd.,
│GRAPHICS├─────────────────┤ 90% │ │4 Brewery Court, The Old Brewery, Theale,
│SOUND ├─────────────────┤ 95% │ │Reading, Berkshire RG7 5AJ, England.
│MUSIC ├─────────────────┤ 95% │ │Tel: +44-(0)1734-303-322
│GAMEPLAY├─────────────────┤ 94% │ │
│INTEREST├─────────────────┤ 93% │ │
└────────┘ └─────┘ │Sierra On-Line Inc.,
┌────────┐ ┌─────┐ │P.O. Box 53250,
│OVERALL ├─────────────────┤ 93% │ │Bellevue, WA 98015-3250.
└────────┘ └─────┘ │Tel: 800-757-7707
│ 206-649-9800
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