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Tubes

Tubes is a shareware color matching puzzle game. The main screen shows a series of overlapping transparent tubes climbing from the bottom and curving at the top towards the center. Colored balls, or elements…

31 December 1994

Tubes is a puzzle developed by Absolute Magic, released 31 December 1994 on DOS.

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What Tubes is

Tubes is a puzzle game developed by Absolute Magic and released in 1994. It was published by Software Creations Ltd.. It is available on DOS only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Lanny B. Brilliant was completing his work on the creation of eight new elements that weren't on the periodic table. But his research found the atoms were highly unstable. Now it's up to you to help him bond three or more atoms together in stable molecule chains.
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Tubes launched on 31 December 1994, within three weeks of Umihara Kawase, King's Field, WWF Raw and Mario Andretti Racing.

Released around the same time: Umihara Kawase, King's Field, WWF Raw, Mario Andretti Racing.

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When did Tubes come out?
Tubes was released on 31 December 1994 for DOS.

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