Gorby no Pipeline Daisakusen is a Japanese Tokuma Shoten Famicom puzzle around Mikhail Gorbachev orchestrating a Soviet pipeline construction. The representation offers timed pipe laying on evolving grid in a satirical political Japanese puzzle formula. Without western release, curiosity for offbeat 8 bit Famicom puzzle fans.
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Puzzle1 player3+
Description
Comic political puzzler where you play Gorbachev laying pipes to bring gas to Moscow. Published by Tokuma Shoten, released in 1991 in Japan on Famicom. A timed Pipe Dream variant with rising difficulty, Soviet caricatures and tongue-in-cheek perestroika-era bonuses scattered between stages.
Gorby no Pipeline Daisakusen review
3/5
Art direction
★★★★★
"Polished"
3/5
Music
★★★★★
"Memorable"
1/5
Story
★★★★★
"Anecdotal"
Gameplay
"Solid"
Fun
"From the very first minutes"
Addictiveness
"Engaging"
Difficulty
"Balanced"
Lifespan
"Average"
Technical info
💾0,03 MB📅23/08/1991
Published by Tokuma Shoten
Gorby no Pipeline Daisakusen (NES) price, value & rarity
Complete: box, manual and disc/cart very clean. Lightly handled.
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Collector interest
A political curiosity from 1991, this puzzle stars Gorbachev piping gas to Moscow amid perestroika, a premise that could never have cleared Western localisation. Its collector value comes from being a dated artefact, a caricatured snapshot of the dying USSR pressed onto Famicom by Tokuma Shoten. A direct Pipe Dream offshoot, it sits among themed puzzlers, sought for its improbable historical context more than its mechanics.
