Amazing Engine was a series of tabletop role-playing game books that was published by TSR, Inc. from 1993 until 1994.
[1] In 1993 TSR ended production on most of its role-playing game lines, including Gamma World, Marvel Super Heroes, and Basic Dungeons & Dragons, and replaced these soon after with a new universal game system via the Amazing Engine System Guide (1993).
[2]: 27 Amazing Engine was intended as a simple system for beginners, TSR began publishing setting books after the initial rulebook, each of them using various play environments.
[2]: 28 TSR planned for Alternity to be their generic science-fiction role-playing system which would replace Amazing Engine.
[2]: 284 In Amazing Engine, player characters are generated with a set of four core statistics.