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Contraption Zack

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Also known as
Contraptions

This puzzle adventure tasks a new repairman with fixing a collapsing factory by navigating 60 perilous, trap-filled rooms.

Contraption Zack was developed by Presage Software and published by Mindscape for DOS in 1992; no earlier platform release is known.


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Platform
MS-DOS
Released
1992
Perspective
Top-down
Visual
Isometric
Size
1.03 MB
Version
autorun.bat
Rating
0 votes

About Contraption Zack

Contraption Zack presents an isometric puzzle adventure where the player controls a repairman on his first day at a malfunctioning factory. The core objective involves navigating numerous rooms filled with hazards to locate scattered tools.

This gameplay is structured around repairing a series of complex, interlinked machines. The overall task is challenging, requiring the player to traverse over sixty different areas while avoiding deadly traps in the process.

Contraption Zack Screenshots

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Title Screen
(From the intro) It's mechanic Zack's first day at the new factory...
(From the intro) ...but his unfriendly colleagues mislay his tools.
One of the first puzzles: Buttons trigger barriers of the same color.
In each level, Zack has to find his tools, such as the pipe on the left...
...and use them at appropiate spots. Here, the screwdriver activates a catapult platform.
Zack has to fix the broken pipes so that the doors will open.
The clipboard shows Zack's progress through the eight levels.
Using the valve, Zack can raise the water level.
The big switches control mechanisms somewhere else in the level -- what they do exactly is yours to find out.