Make It Big In Games

As announced today at PushButton Labs, we have acquired the full rights to The Incredible Machine! Although this happened several months ago, we waited on announcing it until the guys at Good Old Games could get it ready for sale, where they have a bundle Mega pack that includes four versions of TIM for $9.99.

Hit games for their creators are like hit songs for singers, i.e. they stick with you for a long time. When Kevin Ryan, Brian Hahn, and I created TIM at Dynamix back in 1991, I had already been thinking about the game for seven years. Now, here it is 18 years later, and TIM will get an entirely new lease on life. That is 25 years of being involved with TIM, and I have loved every minute of it.

How we came about getting the rights to TIM is a story that we cannot even tell. It is a story filled with lots of NDA’s, Activision, Sierra, GarageGames, a racing game, on-line game portals, PushButton Labs, Grunts, spys, and intrigue. Well, maybe not spies, but all of the other stuff was there. Regardless of the path, I have sitting in front of me all of the copyrights signed over to PushButton Labs, and like I tweeted a while ago, it feels like having a long lost child finally come home.

While we are not announcing our future plans for the TIM franchise, you do know that I still work with Kevin Ryan (co-designer, programmer for original TIM) and PushButton Labs creates Flash technology and websites, so you can draw your own conclusions.

-Jeff Tunnell, Game Maker
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