Plumbers Don't Wear Ties
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| Developer(s) | United Pixtures |
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| Director(s) | Michael Anderson |
| Producer(s) | Michael Anderson |
| Designer(s) | Michael Anderson |
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| Writer(s) | Michael Anderson |
| Composer(s) | Martin Golnick |
| Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows, 3DO Interactive Multiplayer |
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Microsoft Windows
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| Genre(s) | Interactive movie |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Plumbers Don't Wear Ties is an adult-oriented romantic comedy graphic adventure game/dating sim developed and published by Kirin Entertainment for the 3DO Interactive Multiplayer. Although the game did have a PC version, it had very limited distribution and was published by United Pixtures itself. The game stars Edward J. Foster and Jeanne Basone as John and Jane, two people who are being pressured by their respective parents to go out and find a spouse. The player's task is to get John and Jane together.
Plumbers Don't Wear Ties received negative attention for its abysmal production value, nonsensical storyline, poor acting, and for primarily being presented as a slide show despite being advertised as a full motion video game. As a result, it has been considered to be one of the worst games of all time.
The only interaction is where the player gets to choose the storyline (two to three choices at a time) in a DVD menu-style manner, although there are only one to two right choices. The player will use the D-pad (or mouse in the PC version) to make a choice and then will press the A button to see what will happen for choosing that option. At certain points in the game, the player has the opportunity to choose what actions John or Jane will do; making the right choices will bring the characters together, while making the wrong choices will result in commentary from the game's two narrators, who sometimes fight with each other. If enough bad choices are made, the player is given the choice to restart the game or try to make the right choice.
A full motion video clip features the character Jane introducing the player to the main objective and basic rules of the game. From that point onwards the entire format is that of still photographs with actors reading dialogue. The narrator also changes once during the game, before being changed back to the original a few scenes later.
In the early 1990s, Los Angeles locals John (Edward J. Foster) and Jane (Jeanne Basone), originally from Almonte, Ontario, are both being pressured by their respective parents to find a suitable spouse. John, a plumber, is told by his mother (Violetta Gevorkian, voiced by Samantha Eggersoll) to go to her house with John's current girlfriend, Amy, for dinner at 6:00 pm. College student Jane, meanwhile, who is considered a "daddy's girl", is going to a job interview, having disliked her coworkers at her previous job.
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