Sid the mouse, who'll do anything to annoy Al. There was now a whole cast of individual characters, each with their own uses. Instead of bland objects interacting with each other, you now had saturday morning cartoons erupting on your screen every time two items collided. With Sid and Al, gameplay became even more fun than TIM. 'Sid and Als Incredible Toon Machine', while not as well known as 'The Incredible Machine', is by no means undeserving of the same attention that gets bestowed on it's predeccesor. An alien conspiracy perhaps? Probably not, but one thing is for sure, both provided much entertainment for those present at the time.Īfter the success of TIM, Sierra looked at ways of developing this idea, of a machine made out of strange items working together, further and a couple of years later, Jeff Tunnell produced another gem.
Many many years later a computer company released a little program called 'The incredible machine' (TIM) that, similar to Rube Goldberg's creations, used a whole string of weird and wonderful items to achieve a simple goal, such as feeding the cat or firing a cannon. Many, many years ago there was a crazy cartoonist/ inventor who created fantastic machines to accomplish simple tasks such as sharpening a pencil or catching rats.