Bill's Tomato Game

Bill's Tomato Game is a puzzler created by Bill Pullan for the Amiga and published by Psygnosis in 1992.

The game belongs to the so-called Rube Goldberg machine puzzle games, where the player has to arrange several devices to obtain a specific effect. In this case, you have to help Terry the tomato find his fiancé Terry. To do that, he will have to advance through several levels by reaching the conveyor belt set on the right side of the screen. The only way to do it is to place the right gadgets in the right position. The objects that you will have to position include electric fans, trampolines, Jack-In-The-Box, and blocking boxes. To make things worse, time is limited.

Maybe the choice of gadgets could have been richer, anyway Bill's Tomato Game is brilliantly designed, but the right difficulty level, nice progression, and perfect balance. It's not as original as Lemmings - the most famous puzzler by Psygnosis, and It didn't reach the popularity of The Incredible Machine - another Rube Goldberg video game (maybe because Bill's Tomato was an Amiga exclusive?), but this doesn't mean the quality is lower. If you like this kind of mind-challenging puzzler, this game is a must have.