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Plumbers Don’t Wear Ties: Definitive Edition Collector's Edition (PC)

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Plumbers Don’t Wear Ties: Definitive Edition Collector's Edition (PC)
Limited Run Games

It's the worst game ever made, and you can now own it in the most lavish packaging imaginable. The Plumbers Don't Wear Ties: Definitive Edition Collector's Edition for PC elevates FMV trash into collector's treasure with a box so committed to the bit, it borders on performance art.

Where to even start. The wearable replica tie. You can actually put it on. The 4x6 framed picture of Jane, ready for your desk or your nightstand if you're feeling bold. A 7-inch vinyl soundtrack for a game whose audio has no business being on premium format. The strategy guide, because apparently this game has strategies. A USB containing the game itself, a physical copy with bonus Steam key, an 18x24 reversible poster, a "Plumber on a Bike" decal, and a sticker sheet complete the absurdity.

This is the collector's edition as comedy object. Every piece in this box exists in the tension between "why does this exist" and "I need this immediately." Limited Run understood the assignment perfectly. Plumbers Don't Wear Ties isn't a guilty pleasure. It's a cultural artifact from the 3DO era, when FMV games were the future and nobody knew the future would be this funny. The Definitive Edition Collector's Edition preserves that chaos in amber, and your shelf will be better for it.

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