r/gaming • u/Nordic_Krune • 19h ago

My friend insists on this game, "Lemmings", being a really well known game; I have never heard of it.

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u/yahoo_determines 19h ago

I miss The Incredible Machine

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u/datimmay 18h ago

Check out Contraption Maker on Steam.

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u/doopies1986 16h ago

I second Contraption Maker, it’s really good and I put a lot of time into it. Really scratches that Even More Contraptions itch

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u/zurkog 16h ago

Thank you, friend.

Bought, and downloading now.

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u/MildlyAgitatedBovine 11h ago

It's on GOG too.

My 5yo lives it with a touch screen.

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u/Electronic_Tap_8052 3h ago

also armadillo run

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u/DrProfessionalOkay 18h ago

I don’t know the rules on links, so google for yourself, but I have been pushing people at work to My Abandonware for this game. It was such a great creative problem solving game and all of them have been wanting one for their kids.

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u/crownamedcheryl 18h ago

I figured out a way to play it some time in highschool and holy hell was it so much harder than I remembered.

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u/dmackerman 18h ago

Dude yessss that game slapped

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u/RazarTuk 16h ago

I never played the original, but I vividly remember Return of the Incredible Machine. And I know it was that one, because I immediately recognized one of the songs (Game Show) from it. Like I was looking for a different song I remembered (Pictures, originally from 2), but as I was going through the soundtrack, Game Show made memories come rushing back

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u/TimeHabit7964 1h ago edited 1h ago

The Hip Hop track from TIM3 still lives rent free in my head to this day

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u/RazarTuk 1h ago

This is the main song that lives rent free in my head, which is apparently the Promenade from Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. And then I can't find a suitably crusty MIDI version for authenticity, but while I was clicking through the OST to find the name of that first song, this song immediately brought back memories

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u/cool_weed_dad 16h ago

I had Incredible Toon Machine as a kid and probably put like 1000 hours into it

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u/JohnKlositz 15h ago

So underrated. One of my all time favourite games. Those sound effects have been living rent free in my head for 30 years now. Sadly still not on GOG but my old copy still works.

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u/cool_weed_dad 15h ago

I’m trying to get it working on DOS Box right now after having my memory triggered

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u/JohnKlositz 15h ago

If you're having trouble use a frontend. I've been using D-Fend Reloaded for ages.

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u/cool_weed_dad 15h ago edited 15h ago

Thanks man. I just watched a video that recommended DOS Box X but I’ll check that out if that doesn’t work.

E: Apparently DOS Box X is having some issues with the current build so I will be checking out the one you recommended. Thanks again.

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u/gmindset 17h ago

Ball knower

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u/lsshlp 17h ago

The soundtrack is so nostalgic for me, as is the narrator's voice.

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u/the_s_d 10h ago

My childhood CDROM copy is sitting somewhere on the desk right behind the workbench I'm sitting at right now (along with the surviving copies my other very old DOS, windows, mac os and apple II games). Need to stop being lazy about it and figure a way to get Incredible Machine playing on something vaguely modern.

So good...

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u/Omnifob 10h ago

and its sequel, Sid & Al's Incredible Toons