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Best Game Boxart Qualifier: Poll 19

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Which BOXART is your favorite?

EyeToy Play

Shining Force II 古えの封印

Pipe Dream

Kirby & The Amazing Mirror

Fire Emblem Fates: Birthright

Feel the Magic: XY ♥ XX

Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep

Pokémon Art Academy

Chocobo's Dungeon 2

Voting ended onMar 14

Remember to vote for the ARTWORK, not for the game!

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this feels like the sort of thing you'd know, or at least be able to track down in shorter order than I could: where did the "rotate pipes to complete a pathway across a grid" game first appear?

Assuming you're talking about video games, the earliest example of the type that I'm aware of is Pipe Mania (1989). There are earlier games of this general class (i.e., path-building games where the player needs to complete a connection between two points given limited resources), of course, but to the best of my knowledge Pipe Mania is the first one which both incorporates a race-against-the-clock element and uses plumbing as a framing device.

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