Game Classification
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EnglishElektrek 1994
Classification
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Market
This title is used by the following domains:- Entertainment
Audience
This title targets the following audience:Age : 12 to 16 years old / 17 to 25 years old
General Public
Gameplay
The gameplay of this title is Game-based(designed with stated goals)
The core of gameplay is defined by the rules below:
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If Pipe Mania were a platform game, this is what it would be. You have to direct an electric current across each level, by getting to some precariously-placed switches, and alternating their position. There are lots of bad guys trying to stop you (for a not-readily-apparent reason; maybe they?re Green campaigners), and contact with them costs you a life.
The game?s most novel feature is one I?m pretty sure I?ve never seen before ? it?s almost a gameplay interpretation of double buffering (the programming technique in which you have two copies of the screen, and draw graphics to the background one, swapping them once it?s all done, to speed up play and eliminate flicker). There are two sets of platforms, one behind the other, and a simple joystick motion switches you between the two. [source:mobygames]
Distribution : Retail - Commercial
Platform(s) : Amiga
The game?s most novel feature is one I?m pretty sure I?ve never seen before ? it?s almost a gameplay interpretation of double buffering (the programming technique in which you have two copies of the screen, and draw graphics to the background one, swapping them once it?s all done, to speed up play and eliminate flicker). There are two sets of platforms, one behind the other, and a simple joystick motion switches you between the two. [source:mobygames]
Distribution : Retail - Commercial
Platform(s) : Amiga