Empire Interactive apparently still cares both for its loyal audience, and for them retro loving yet obviously disturbed individuals like myself that really enjoy the (elegant) revival of retro titles on current-gen platforms. The forthcoming remake of the classic Pipemania frenetic puzzle game for the Nintendo DS is all the proof I need. Hopefully, it will also turn out to be another reason for owning said console, though all we have for now are some screenshots like the ones posted above. They do look lovely, mind. Pretty faithful to the original too.

In case you were not one of the millions that bought the original or weren’t old enough to play games back in 1989, know that Pipemania was -and quite arguably still is- a brilliant action/puzzle game. Players have to lay down a pre-set… uhh.. set of pipes on a tiled grid in order to keep the constantly flowing… uhh… fluid moving for as long as possible. Simple and taxing as that, especially when considering the strict time limits imposed.

Now, as Pipemania DS will be hitting stores later this year, you could try and satisfy your retro obsessed inner self with the brilliantly remade Tetris DS, the very faithful Myst DS or even the not particularly inspired handheld version of Bomberman.

Posted on March 7th, 2008 by konstantinos