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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
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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.

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