How one of the worst PC games, thought lost forever, was found

There are bad games and then there is Plumbers Don't Wear Ties, quite possibly the worst game ever made.

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Our own Joe Donnelly used to be a plumber, so I decided to ask him how accurate this portrayal is."There's a weird misconception in popular culture that suggests plumbers go from door to door bedding lonely housewives, when in actual fact they spend most of their days up to their elbows in other people's shit," he says."A drunk woman once hid in a cupboard from me as she was trying to avoid paying a bill. That was as weird as things ever got in my experience.

Searching for it on Google wasn't yielding any results outside of the more popular 3DO version, so psychoticgiraffe tried something rather brilliant: He searched by the game's system requirements instead. That eventually led him to WorldCat database listing of library inventories that showed one copy existed in all of its 72,000 libraries across the world. Somehow, amazingly, Ball State University's library had never thrown away Plumbers Don't Wear Ties' PC version.

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