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Pipe Maze

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Water pipes, ducts and similar things have a tendency to be arranged in ways that resemble great walls of metallic spaghetti.
This is especially common in Video Games that use thick pipes for a Space-Filling Path, Insurmountable Waist-Height Fence, or just generic platforms in an Absurdly Spacious Sewer or Eternal Engine. In science fiction, some patched-together, salvaged Used Future spaceships flown by La Résistance have engine compartments like this.
Can sometimes be Truth in Television in cases where people have MacGyvered a DIY solution to a home renovation project. It can also happen if a character is too poor to buy real parts, and can only afford whatever scrap parts they happened to have lying around.
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A cool 3D pipe maze was used in the closing credits for The Bourne Identity to highlight the confusing intricacy of the spy game in general as well as Jason's confused identity.
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The Super Mario Bros. Movie: As Toad is escorting Mario to Princess Peach, the path takes them through a complex series of multicolored Warp Pipes up the big hill to the castle. While Toad and the locals can navigate the pipes just fine, poor Mario has more trouble (not helped by him losing track of Toad), with him getting plopped back at the same points several times. By the time he manages to reach the final pipe to the castle, he falls over from exhaustion.
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In Sonic 3 & Knuckles, Launch Base Zone has some Tube Travel sections to confuse unexperienced players.
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An underground area in The Goonies has one. Sloth pushes on a pipe and causes a traffic accident above.
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Sonic 2 for the Game Gear and Sega Master System has the oddly named Scrambled Egg zone, which is basically a mass of pipes, and you have to very quickly choose ways to go sometimes. Often, you'll get it wrong and get flung into spikes. Trial and error at it's purest.
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Used slightly in Sonic Chaos' Electric Egg, and less so still in Sonic Triple Trouble's Atomic Destroyer, both with less cheap penalties.
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There is a scene in Machinarium where you have to drain a well, for which you have to shut off its supply line. It can be done by shutting off some valves on a wall full of interconnected pipes with the limited amount of wrenches you have (once you remove the wrench, the valve opens again). The puzzle is which valves to shut off to stop the flow.
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SCP Foundation's SCP-015 is a mass of pipes and plumbing work that have taken over an entire warehouse.
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In Tweety and the Magic Gems for the Game Boy Advance, one of the mini games is "Pipe Maze", which involves going through a maze of pipes to find the exit, and there's another mini-game called "Mushroom Trampoline" that plays similarly. Since the game was developed by Kemco, who also developed the Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle games, it features similar gameplay mechanics.
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Sierra's Lighthouse: The Dark Being has a puzzle like this, inside the Dark Being's Volcano Lair. You have to manipulate a series of valves in a large grid of thin pipes, to direct steam down to the bottom where a portion of the MacGuffin is. And you're doing it inside a diving bell-like contraption suspended over boiling hot lava.
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In the Littlest Pet Shop (2012) episode "Hamster Hoods," there is a hamster tube version of this, built by hamsters Dodger and Twist for easy access all over Downtown City. Of course, the "maze" part of this kicks in when it becomes clear only Dodger and Twist can travel through it without getting lost.
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Mario Kart 7: Piranha Plant Slide, based on the Super Mario Bros underground levels. Not only do you enter the underground portion via a large entrance shaped like a green pipe, but also drive alongside a current of water (and there's a flooded part later on). It returns in Mario Kart 8 and Mario Kart Tour as a Nostalgia Level.
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Mario Party:
The original game has a minigame of the same name. In it, the player has to guide a treasure chest guarding coins through a vertical network of green pipes into themselves; the catch is that, because the whole maze is only shown through a very fast scroll at the start of the minigame, it's very difficult to predict where the chest has to go in order to reach the intended character. If one relies on pure luck, then there's a 75% chance that the chest will go to a different character (who will then claim its coins) instead.
Mario Party 7: There's a Duel minigame based on this called Warp Pipe Dreams. The two dueling characters are in a field segmented with fences, and several pipes to travel between them. The objective is to navigate through it to reach the green pipe at the center, as it will teleport the winner into the goal.
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New Super Mario Bros. has levels 3-A and 7-A, and both even mimic the background layout of their SMB3 counterparts, only with updated graphics.
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The first time Ken sees the Nuclear Utilisation Technology Centre in the Temps story "Leaks" by David Langford, he thinks "Ducts!" and expects to hear the background music from Brazil.
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The original game has a minigame of the same name. In it, the player has to guide a treasure chest guarding coins through a vertical network of green pipes into themselves; the catch is that, because the whole maze is only shown through a very fast scroll at the start of the minigame, it's very difficult to predict where the chest has to go in order to reach the intended character. If one relies on pure luck, then there's a 75% chance that the chest will go to a different character (who will then claim its coins) instead.
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Mario Party 7: There's a Duel minigame based on this called Warp Pipe Dreams. The two dueling characters are in a field segmented with fences, and several pipes to travel between them. The objective is to navigate through it to reach the green pipe at the center, as it will teleport the winner into the goal.
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Mario Kart:
Mario Kart: Double Dash!!: Pipe Plaza is a battle course where you can move between warp pipes to strategically attack your opponents (or escape from their attacks, depending on the case). It's also available in Mario Kart DS as a Nostalgia Level.
Mario Kart 7: Piranha Plant Slide, based on the Super Mario Bros underground levels. Not only do you enter the underground portion via a large entrance shaped like a green pipe, but also drive alongside a current of water (and there's a flooded part later on). It returns in Mario Kart 8 and Mario Kart Tour as a Nostalgia Level.
Mario Kart Tour: Piranha Plant Pipeline is a pipe network build within a canyon, and serves as a racetrack that takes drives through the interior of a pipeline overrun by Fuzzies. At one point, drivers can glide to one of two possible pipelines in a fork located past a chasm.
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Apple's Through the Looking Glass came with a bonus game called Amazing. By default, it generated two-dimensional mazes to solve. On higher difficulty settings, they were intricate Pipe Mazes.
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Super Mario Bros. has two examples:
World 6-2 has an inordinate amount of pipes, many of which can be entered, implying that it may be the first attempt by the series.
In World 8-4, you have to go down the pipes to progress through the level and reach Bowser, and going down the wrong pipe will send you back to the beginning of the level.
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Super Mario Bros. 2: World 6-1. At first it plays like a traditional Shifting Sand Land level, but then you enter the underground area housing 21 jars (them being the game's equivalent of pipes); almost all of them can be entered, but only one has the key that leads to the end. Among them is also one jar leading to an extra life, so it's not all bad.
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Super Mario Bros. 3 has World 7, the Pipe Maze (known as Pipe Land in the original US release), which has quite a few levels which most probably come under this (note the vast amount of pipes which don't do anything other than make temporary walls rather than actually taking anything anywhere). The background in the remake is even more completely insane in terms of pipe layout. The first level (7-1) showcases the concept in a primitive form, while later levels mix things up by adding extra perks (such as invisible blocks meant to create paths you have to take by using alternate pipes, platforms whose direction can be manipulated with your own jumps, or pipes that make you travel between the dry surface and a flooded underground). World 7-9 has a particular pipe maze level even by the world's standards, as you don't travel through the pipes (they're smaller in size, much like the ones seen in World 2-1; the difference is that those are colored purple while these are sky blue) - it's just a 2D maze in an athletic level. The world map itself for World 7 is broken up into several islands and they all use pipes to travel between them. The islands themselves are even shaped like pipes!
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Sonic the Hedgehog 2 has Chemical Plant Zone, a level with many tubes you have to sprint on and travel through. What the game doesn't tell you is that the tubes have various exits depending on the direction you're pressing on your controller.
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The back areas in Monsters, Inc. where Randall carries out his evil experiments are practically made of complicated plumbing. They even made custom software for creating the piping.
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One of the puzzles in Asteroid 5251's Alpha Hub is a pipe maze.
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Sonic Blast's Blue Marine zone, an icy underwater hell full of strong currents and pipes. You can breathe in the pipes, but that is almost the level's only saving grace. To say it is arduous doesn't even cover it.
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In Something, Pipes n' P-Switches is based on the gimmick of retrieving P-Switches to get rid of the coin blocks and Munchers.
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Much of the first part of the second level of Tiny Toon Adventures: Babs' Big Break is this.
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In BioShock you need to complete a Pipe Maze screen to hack vending machines and security systems.
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Parodied in the retro design of Brazil, which has exposed ductwork everywhere. It even lampshades the fact by having somebody advertise ducts on TV.
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Super Mario Bros.:
Super Mario Bros. has two examples:
World 6-2 has an inordinate amount of pipes, many of which can be entered, implying that it may be the first attempt by the series.
In World 8-4, you have to go down the pipes to progress through the level and reach Bowser, and going down the wrong pipe will send you back to the beginning of the level.
Super Mario Bros. 2: World 6-1. At first it plays like a traditional Shifting Sand Land level, but then you enter the underground area housing 21 jars (them being the game's equivalent of pipes); almost all of them can be entered, but only one has the key that leads to the end. Among them is also one jar leading to an extra life, so it's not all bad.
Super Mario Bros. 3 has World 7, the Pipe Maze (known as Pipe Land in the original US release), which has quite a few levels which most probably come under this (note the vast amount of pipes which don't do anything other than make temporary walls rather than actually taking anything anywhere). The background in the remake is even more completely insane in terms of pipe layout. The first level (7-1) showcases the concept in a primitive form, while later levels mix things up by adding extra perks (such as invisible blocks meant to create paths you have to take by using alternate pipes, platforms whose direction can be manipulated with your own jumps, or pipes that make you travel between the dry surface and a flooded underground). World 7-9 has a particular pipe maze level even by the world's standards, as you don't travel through the pipes (they're smaller in size, much like the ones seen in World 2-1; the difference is that those are colored purple while these are sky blue) - it's just a 2D maze in an athletic level. The world map itself for World 7 is broken up into several islands and they all use pipes to travel between them. The islands themselves are even shaped like pipes!
New Super Mario Bros. has levels 3-A and 7-A, and both even mimic the background layout of their SMB3 counterparts, only with updated graphics.
Super Mario Maker 2: Whereas most game styles have a selectable Forest theme (which was absent in the first game), the one based on Super Mario Bros. 3 has instead this setting (it's still called "Forest", as it technically still takes place in one). The floor tiles, including the slopes, are all shaped like minuscule green pipes, and all semi-solid platforms are industrial setpieces instead of forest flora. It has a body water whose level can be adjusted, like in the forest theme of the other game styles. And accordingly, said water becomes toxic and lethal during night.
Super Mario Bros. Wonder: Swamp Pipe Crawl is a level located in the first world (Pipe-Rock Plateau), and features a large number of green Warp Pipes, some of which can be entered through to reappear in a pipe from the level's background. There's also the level Angry Spikes and Sinkin' Pipes (also found in the first world), which features Warp Pipes that can be sunk down with the characters' weight.
Mario Kart:
Mario Kart: Double Dash!!: Pipe Plaza is a battle course where you can move between warp pipes to strategically attack your opponents (or escape from their attacks, depending on the case). It's also available in Mario Kart DS as a Nostalgia Level.
Mario Kart 7: Piranha Plant Slide, based on the Super Mario Bros underground levels. Not only do you enter the underground portion via a large entrance shaped like a green pipe, but also drive alongside a current of water (and there's a flooded part later on). It returns in Mario Kart 8 and Mario Kart Tour as a Nostalgia Level.
Mario Kart Tour: Piranha Plant Pipeline is a pipe network build within a canyon, and serves as a racetrack that takes drives through the interior of a pipeline overrun by Fuzzies. At one point, drivers can glide to one of two possible pipelines in a fork located past a chasm.
Mario Party:
The original game has a minigame of the same name. In it, the player has to guide a treasure chest guarding coins through a vertical network of green pipes into themselves; the catch is that, because the whole maze is only shown through a very fast scroll at the start of the minigame, it's very difficult to predict where the chest has to go in order to reach the intended character. If one relies on pure luck, then there's a 75% chance that the chest will go to a different character (who will then claim its coins) instead.
Mario Party 7: There's a Duel minigame based on this called Warp Pipe Dreams. The two dueling characters are in a field segmented with fences, and several pipes to travel between them. The objective is to navigate through it to reach the green pipe at the center, as it will teleport the winner into the goal.
Super Mario World: Piranha Island: Piranha Pipe takes place in a set of twisting pipes. Some of its sections have forced-scrolling and Rotodiscs in them, and other sections have thorns to avoid. Mario also has to avoid plenty of Venus Fire Traps and Piranha Plants.
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Prison Break has the pipes under Fox River State Penitentiary. There's a twisted series of lead pipes, the copper pipes that replaced them and newer plastic pipes all entangled together in a maze that even the genius Michael Scofield can't navigate.
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Mario Kart: Double Dash!!: Pipe Plaza is a battle course where you can move between warp pipes to strategically attack your opponents (or escape from their attacks, depending on the case). It's also available in Mario Kart DS as a Nostalgia Level.
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Super Mario World: Piranha Island: Piranha Pipe takes place in a set of twisting pipes. Some of its sections have forced-scrolling and Rotodiscs in them, and other sections have thorns to avoid. Mario also has to avoid plenty of Venus Fire Traps and Piranha Plants.
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Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal has an (almost entirely optional) Absurdly Spacious Sewer section that fits this bill precisely. There are 98 "Sewer Crystals" to be found in this maze. It's hell if you're a completionist, as there's a skill point for getting all of them.
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The 7th Guest has a puzzle like this, but based on an artery connected to a heart. And the things to work with are tilting gates between intersections.
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One episode of Futurama had an alien abduction of Fry happen via a needlessly complex tube similar to the famous screen-saver.
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In Magic: The Gathering, the third sphere of Phyrexia is described as an "impenetrable tangle of metal pipes".◊
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Where's My Water?, which takes place in a sewer system, has lots of pipes. Some of the levels invoke this trope, there's even a level named "Pipe Maze"!
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Sonic the Hedgehog:
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 has Chemical Plant Zone, a level with many tubes you have to sprint on and travel through. What the game doesn't tell you is that the tubes have various exits depending on the direction you're pressing on your controller.
Sonic 2 for the Game Gear and Sega Master System has the oddly named Scrambled Egg zone, which is basically a mass of pipes, and you have to very quickly choose ways to go sometimes. Often, you'll get it wrong and get flung into spikes. Trial and error at it's purest.
Used slightly in Sonic Chaos' Electric Egg, and less so still in Sonic Triple Trouble's Atomic Destroyer, both with less cheap penalties.
In Sonic 3 & Knuckles, Launch Base Zone has some Tube Travel sections to confuse unexperienced players.
Sonic Blast's Blue Marine zone, an icy underwater hell full of strong currents and pipes. You can breathe in the pipes, but that is almost the level's only saving grace. To say it is arduous doesn't even cover it.
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The opening credits animation of the third series of Monty Python's Flying Circus.
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Mario Kart Tour: Piranha Plant Pipeline is a pipe network build within a canyon, and serves as a racetrack that takes drives through the interior of a pipeline overrun by Fuzzies. At one point, drivers can glide to one of two possible pipelines in a fork located past a chasm.
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Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure has Level 5 in Episode 1, as well as Level 5 in Episode 3. Both have teleporting green tubes that take the eponymous character through different portions of the playable area. They're one-way only, though it's not a problem since it's impossible to get stuck (at worst, you'll have to do some extensive backtracking if you flub your route).
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Super Mario Maker 2: Whereas most game styles have a selectable Forest theme (which was absent in the first game), the one based on Super Mario Bros. 3 has instead this setting (it's still called "Forest", as it technically still takes place in one). The floor tiles, including the slopes, are all shaped like minuscule green pipes, and all semi-solid platforms are industrial setpieces instead of forest flora. It has a body water whose level can be adjusted, like in the forest theme of the other game styles. And accordingly, said water becomes toxic and lethal during night.
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The Books of Ember have the Pipeworks workers, whose job is to patch up the incredibly intricate network of pipes that brings water to the citizens... or rather, they patch up the patches over other patches that someone else, a long time ago, put on some more patches.
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Super Mario Bros. Wonder: Swamp Pipe Crawl is a level located in the first world (Pipe-Rock Plateau), and features a large number of green Warp Pipes, some of which can be entered through to reappear in a pipe from the level's background. There's also the level Angry Spikes and Sinkin' Pipes (also found in the first world), which features Warp Pipes that can be sunk down with the characters' weight.
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Pipe Mania!! and its imitators - love 'em, love 'em so much. But if you're Scoring Points, you end up trying to get as many pieces filled as humanly possible, so you end up distinctly avoiding the straight route and trying for as many twists, turns, and go-back-throughs as possible. Bonus if you get a big square of 'em made out of two-ways rimmed by U-turns, so the water goes through the whole square once and then goes through it all one more time just to ensure you've covered enough territory.
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You'll see one of these in Baldur's Gate II if you explore the Shadow Thief guildhouse proper. It's apparently used for training purposes.
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