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Article #10349Re: Color game reviews - Pipe Dream and Crazy Cars
From: Avi Rappoport
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1990 05:10
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1990 05:10
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In article <1990Jan21.215048.11691@smsc.sony.com> dce@smsc.Sony.COM (David Elliott) writes: >Pipe Dreams is a new game from LucasFilms. The object of the game is >to put together pipes to route slime through them as far as possible. >Random pieces of pipe are supplied, but you must use them in order. As >the levels increase, you are challenged with directional pipes and >other special items. I've heard favorable comparisons to Tetris, and >I pretty much agree. > My husband bought me PipeDreams as a present, but I don't like it much. The time pressure is very different from Tetris: makes it much more tense and less attractive. Of course I'm a Tetris junkie and have been known to dream it (loved the Nintendo commercial), but I find Color Shanghai to be much nicer than Pipe Dreams. -- -- Help me justify my online bills: ask me EndNote questions, please! -- Avi Rappoport nilesinc@well.UUCP, Niles.Assoc on AppleLink 415-655-666 2000 Hearst, Berkeley, CA 94709
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!well!nilesinc From: nilesinc@well.UUCP (Avi Rappoport) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Color game reviews - Pipe Dream and Crazy Cars Summary: not as good as Tetris Message-ID: <15673@well.UUCP> Date: 24 Jan 90 05:10:35 GMT References: <1990Jan21.215048.11691@smsc.sony.com> Reply-To: nilesinc@well.UUCP (Avi Rappoport) Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA Lines: 18