The Bean Machine is a puzzle, released 31 December 1983 on Atari 8-bit.
What The Bean Machine is
The Bean Machine was released in 1983. It was published by APX. It is available on Atari 8-bit only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The Bean Machine is a 1-player arcade game for the 8-bit Atari Computer. The bean machine continually picks up beans from a tray on the bottom of the screen, and randomly drops beans at points throughout a maze of moving platforms, monsters, and doors. The player controls 5 platforms with pivot points in the center of the screen, and can rotate the platforms clockwise or counterclockwise. Beans will run along the platforms, and as beans move through the maze, their weight will move the platforms. If beans strike each other, one is destroyed and returns to the starting tray. The goal is to navigate all beans to the collecting tray towards the bottom. There are 3 levels of difficulty, and the…
How it plays
Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
The Bean Machine launched on 31 December 1983, within three weeks of The Witness, Chuckie Egg, Atic Atac and Zoo Keeper.
Released around the same time: The Witness, Chuckie Egg, Atic Atac, Zoo Keeper.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
All media
Quick answers
The Bean Machine — frequently asked questions
When did The Bean Machine come out?
The Bean Machine was released on 31 December 1983 for Atari 8-bit.
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