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Pipe Dream

Your goal in this game is to build pipes. The water flows in the pipes and you have to build them as fast as possible to prevent the water to leak out. When you can manage to keep water in pipes for a defined…

80 31 December 1989

Pipe Dream is a puzzle developed by The Assembly Line, released 31 December 1989 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Pipe Dream is

Pipe Dream is a puzzle game developed by The Assembly Line and released in 1989. It was published by Microsoft. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Pipe Mania is a puzzle video game developed by The Assembly Line for the Amiga and published in 1989. It was ported to several other platforms by Lucasfilm Games as Pipe Dream; the company distributed the game in the US. The player must connect randomly appearing pieces of pipe on a grid to a given length within a limited time.
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

How it was received

Pipe Dream holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 62% of the 2,791 rated puzzle games in our database, which average 72.

What it launched against

Pipe Dream launched on 31 December 1989, within three weeks of Fantasy World Dizzy, A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia and Denaris. It reviewed better than 1 of the 3.

Released around the same time: Fantasy World Dizzy, A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia, Denaris.

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When did Pipe Dream come out?
Pipe Dream was released on 31 December 1989 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

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