My family and I spent many hours playing this "Pipe laying" game from the Tetris alike days back in the 80's. This is one of the few games my sister and mother played and it was so addicting that eventually any visitors to the house would eventually come addicted as well and we actually would have lines of friends, relatives, and us waiting for our turn to play or compete.
Of course, before the addiction the most unusual thing is that this game came from the same FX Labs that made all the Starwars Movies and I first acquired it from hanging out in the computer lab though I don't recall how I specifically got it.
My family and I spent many hours playing this "Pipe laying" game from the Tetris alike days back in the 80's. This is one of the few games my sister and mother played and it was so addicting that eventually any visitors to the house would eventually come addicted as well and we actually would have lines of friends, relatives, and us waiting for our turn to play or compete.
Of course, before the addiction the most unusual thing is that this game came from the same FX Labs that made all the Starwars Movies and I first acquired it from hanging out in the computer lab though I don't recall how I specifically got it. (Supposedly they were bored).
The first screen is the Title
Screen that shows a frazzled Plumber trying to contain a pipe blow out of green "Goop" as a Nintendo styled computerize musical ditty that sounds a lot like water drips plays with the choice of pressing f1 to start playing or f2 to change you options.
Pressing f1 starts the Single Player game with the default keys for playing: arrows for direction and INS to lay the Pipe.
The Object of the game is to lay a continuous stream of pipes on a grid 7x10 blocks in which about to blow pipe is set. The pipe can be laid anywhere among the grids and pressing the lay key over an unfilled pipe will blow it up and replace it with the new pipe. You can replace the pipe as many times as you like until it is filled with goop in which case it is stuck.
The concept is to keep on laying "relief pipe" to keep the "green goop" contained that gets released after a certain amount of delay (when the counter on the right hand of the screen runs out). On the higher levels the countdown and the flow of the stream gets faster.
The round ends when you run out of room or when the goop spills out the end of the pipe you are laying. If you didn't cover enough grids for the round or if there are too many spare pipes lying around then the Game is over.
If you filled enough space "a successful containment" without wasting too many spares you enter the next round.
F2 allows the option of competing against another player as well as options to configure the action keys to your liking and to save such configurations to make them permanent.
The Graphics are good considering the era it came from and the sound effect like the final countdown and the goop starting to flow causes much excitement and panic and the Pipe "blowing up" as you relay a new pipe over the older one is also very "cool".
In truth this is one of the "ancient" games. I thank God for Dosbox because I was really bummed out when I couldn't play it on the modern machines.
