Among the many ports of
Pipe Mania, the arcade machine by Video System Co. Ltd.
deserves special attention because it changed both theme and
gameplay. While the well-known plumber still pops out of the title
screen and gives the gameplay instructions, the actual game offers
three courses featuring firemen, doctors and construction workers
respectively. Furthermore, the goal is not to
create a pipe of a given length, but to connect a randomly placed
start and end piece. Daehyun's Pipeline
on the other hand is an exact clone of the original game.
This arcade machine was the direct inspiration for Yutaka Emura's Empipe and replicorn's Pipeful Sunday.