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Pipemania is back for mobile phones

Slap your spanners for this watery retro puzzler

Pipemania is back for mobile phones
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Have you noticed how there are loads of plumbers knocking about nowadays? It's probably because, well, you can get paid a bloody fortune if you know one end of a wrench from the other. But we'd also like to think the success of Pipemania back in the 1980s had something to do with breeding a new generation of tap-titans.

If you don't remember it, Pipemania saw you connecting bits of pipe up to run water from one end to the other within a time limit – if you failed, you had a flood on your hands.

It's ideally suited for mobile, so the news that THQ Wireless is releasing it for phones in March shouldn't come as a surprise.

This mobile game version will have four different game modes, including the 'Retro' original version, and a 'Random' mode which carries on forever.

And don't worry newbies, there'll be a comprehensive tutorial, and progressive difficulty (i.e. if you can't complete the first few levels, you're rubbish), with unlockable features along the way to keep things interesting.

Stuart Dredge
Stuart Dredge
Stuart is a freelance journalist and blogger who's been getting paid to write stuff since 1998. In that time, he's focused on topics ranging from Sega's Dreamcast console to robots. That's what you call versatility. (Or a short attention span.)