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Great game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: November 17, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I've just spent 3 days playing this with my almost-6-year-old. He loves this game. If it wasn't for the reading, and the occasionally REALLY tough puzzle, he would have done this by himself.

Not your standard video game ...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: July 29, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is a fun game for those who like building things, following the logic of mechanics to their conclusion, snd don't mind trial and error exercises. The interface is clunky, but usable.

It's a buy at the current Amazon low price.

Not as easy as it led to believe

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 07, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I read the reviews for this in November, and thought it would be great for my 8 1/2 and almost 7 year old boys. They tried it out for a couple of hours, and became frustrated. The packaging did not come with any explicit instructions on how to approach the activities.

It took me a couple of tries to figure out what to do, and then explain it to my sons. Maybe I can get them back on it after things calm down a bit from all of the Christmas excitement and we can figure it out.

This version has new items, and is easier than the other, on average

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: October 24, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The first part is completely easy. It tells you to fix a problem that is 95% fixed, just place two pipes, for example. It also has primary colors and is definately designed for kids.
The second part is harder, more like the first game. It goes along, has new items, like a mouse, frog, mallet wheel, a board wheel, and a new soundtrack, which I like. Adults/older teens will like this part better.
Revised three times.

Fun for Children

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: October 05, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I purchased this for my two oldest grandchildren ages 6 and 4. They needed help getting started but soon learned how to play the game and they absolutely love it. It challenges their minds. Money well spent.

Given as a Gift, and Can't Get that "Old" Kid away from his Computer

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 19, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I gave this as a gift to an engineer who's into such things (I can't figure out anything mechanical). According to his fiance, she can't tear him away from it, and it's been four months since his he got it. I love to see what he's come up with, the new Rube Goldberg contraptions he's created. They're really fun and funny and creative. I guess I'm a viewer, not a doer.

Facinating Fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Purchased this because I have a 6 year old who loves puzzles. He needed about 10 minutes of guided use to learn how to navigate and from there he has spent hours with this game and goes back to it almost everyday. The training camp is fun and challenging while the laboratory is funny and fun. The teenagers in the house have enjoyed this but not as much as I have or the 6 year old.

Great, mind growing fun

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 12, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Bought this for my 9 yr old daughter and 6 yr old son. Found that I enjoyed it as much as they do. We have not found that the game required really precise positioning of items to solve the puzzles, as some have mentioned. But we've mostly been making our own machines anyway.
One small gripe: discovered that in Win XP Home, Limited Accounts are not able to run the game. Since many homes probably set up Limited accounts to minimize the damage young kids might do the operating system, etc., it's odd that the game doesn't run from these. So the kids have to log on to my account or my wife's to play it.
On the plus side, that does allow us to control access a bit more, and the game is a bit addictive!
We also had to upgrade our system. Our video card was an ancient 32 MB thing and probably not DirectX 9 comaptible.
The rest of our system was fine (800 Mhz Ahtlon, 512 MB RAM), but the cost of a video card these days is about equal to the cost of a new motherboard and RAM, so we went ahead and upgraded.
The game also crashed once on my laptop. I'm guessing I need to fine tune some video settings. Other than that one time, it has been stable.

Watch out for the system requirements

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: February 10, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Be sure to double check the system requirements using the Viva Media web site before you buy!

The 1.0 version had a bug where it would not start even though it installed properly, for which the developer issued a patch.
This version (1.5) has the same problem, but NO PATCH is available. When I emailed Viva Media about the situation, they responded that I didn't have enough graphics memory. Too bad those requirements are NOT spelled out in the Amazon listing!

Buyer beware!

great brain game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: August 28, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I love adventure and puzzle games, this one is one of my favorite puzzle games! Very challenging but not to hard. Loads of fun will buy the next game.

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