Rank and Play ID: RNP-IGDB-69731

Tubes

Rank and Play

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Critic rating

n/a

Release

Dec 31, 1994

Genres

Puzzle, Strategy

Overview

Tubes is a shareware color matching puzzle game. The main screen shows a series of overlapping transparent tubes climbing from the bottom and curving at the top towards the center. Colored balls, or elements as the game calls them, travel through these tubes to their exit holes. The objective is to catch the falling spheres with a test tube, moving it sideways underneath the tubes exits with the mouse, keyboard or joystick. The test tube can hold up to five elements. The player has to press a button and drop the elements inside a beaker at the bottom, aligning them vertically, horizontally or diagonally by three or more of the same color. Ev…

Storyline

Lanny B. Brilliant was completing his work on the creation of eight new elements that weren't on the periodic table. But his research found the atoms were highly unstable. Now it's up to you to help him bond three or more atoms together in stable molecule chains.