Way way back in gaming's past, I'm talking spring of '93, there was a game released called The Incredible Machine. It was so long ago that it ran on DOS and it wasn't in the RPS tag system. I just had to input it manually. TIM, as it's jollily known, was a game about performing easy tasks in the most complicated fashion. A Rube Goldberg inspired game, where putting a ball in a box needed a confusing series of pulleys, and possibly a cat. There have a been a few sequels, but a new version hasn't appeared on the PC since 2005. Despite waffling on about it, this post is not about The Incredible Machine. It is a Rube Goldberg paragraph, intended to lead you to information about a just announced spiritual successor, Contraption Maker.

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