I had thought there was some issue with this coming here, so glad it's here now, and glad to see a Limited Run Games published title here. :)

Night Trap next, please.

This is giving me an existential crisis: should I buy something this bad, just because I laughed so hard "playing" it on youtube? It's certainly quite the unique piece of gaming history, too.

Couple more FMV games (of varying quality) to drop votes on:

Black Dahlia
Ripper
Man Enough
Ms. Metaverse
Riana Rouge
Michael Ninn's Latex: The Game
Ghostly Desires
The Guy Game
Star Trek: Borg
The Shapeshifting Detective
The X-Files Game
Days of Oblivion
Days Of Oblivion II: Frozen Eternity
Contradiction - Spot The Liar!
Blackout
David Wolf: Secret Agent (technically not full motion though)
Deadly Tide
Dracula Unleashed
Drug Wars
Emergency Room
Flash Traffic: City of Angels
Fox Hunt
Frankenstein: Through The Eyes Of The Monster
Girlfriend Tracy
Gravity Angels
Guy Spy and the Crystals of Armageddon
How to be Perfect
I'm Your Man: Special Edition
In the 1st Degree
Isis
J.B. Harold: Blue Chicago Blues
Jo Guest in the Milk Round
JetFighter: Full Burn
Johnny Mnemonic
Kids on Site
Kingdom II: Shadoan
Zeddas
L'affaire Morlov
The Last Bounty Hunter
The Lawnmower Man
Los Justicieros
Mad Dog McCree
Creature Shock
Maski Show
Mirage
Quantum Gate
Commander Blood (+ Captain Blood for good measure)
Big Bug Bang: Le Retour de Commander Blood
Monty Python
MTV: Club Dead
The Multipath Adventures of Superman: Menace of Metallo
National Lampoon's Blind Date
Nirvana X-ROM
RAMA | RAMA
Noir: A Shadowy Thriller
Paparazzi!: Tales of Tinseltown
Piper
Point of View
Polis
Private Eye
Prince Interactive
Psychic Detective
The Psychotron
Rendezvous with a Stranger Girl
Road Blaster
SFPD Homicide
Shine
Silent Steel
Soldier Boyz
Sorority House
Space Pirates
Space Sirens
Star Trek: Klingon
Speed
Star Wars: Millennium Falcon CD-ROM Playset
Steven Spielberg's Director's Chair
Supreme Warrior
Synnergist
Terror T.R.A.X.: Track of the Vampire
The Three Stooges
Thunder in Paradise Interactive
Time Gal
Time Warrior: The Armageddon Device
The Arrival
Tomcat Alley
Urban Runner
Total Distortion
Voyeur
You Don't Know Richard
Double Switch
Who Shot Johnny Rock?
Wrath of the Gods
Critical Path
The Daedalus Encounter
Hell: A Cyberpunk Thriller
Gothos
Wirehead
A Fork In The Tale
Panic in the Park
Byzantine: The Betrayal
The Sacred Mirror of Kofun
Temujin: A Supernatural Adventure
Marbella Vice
Tierras Salvajes
Ground Zero Texas

I guess that having one of the worst games ever made serves a purpose?

To be honest, there are games that are bad, but also fun to play because of that badness. The poor writing, laughable graphics, and funny bugs can make them entertaining to play. Some even achieve cult status. However, that is not the case here, and I fail to see any redeeming factors with 'Plumbers Don't Wear Ties.' It is just a very poorly made game. This game is boring, horrible, has bad music, bad graphics - even the box cover art received one of 1UP's 'Worst Video Game Box Covers' award. This game has no redeemable qualities.

The only reason to try this game is to experience the game that is blamed for killing off the 3DO and interactive fiction as a genre at the time, a game infamous for being the worst-rated game ever by PC Format. Maybe someone would feel it is worth paying to do so, but I see no reason personaly.

Edit - and just to be clear, so people do not go into this game with wrong expectations. This games is billed as a FMV game, however it has almost no video. 98% of the game consists of still images. If I remember correctly, the only part of this that is video (or any form of moving image) is the introduction. They could not even bother having a video based conclusion.

Controversial opinion: GOG shouldn't have accepted games from Limited Run until it secured major titles such as Jurassic Park Classic Games Collection. Starting with a trashy title like this isn't a good strategy.

Thank god, I don't share that crisis.
This is a clear "nope!" from me.
(and I haven't even played it on YT)

I don't buy that.

The 3DO got released in October 1993 (= US release - JP release in March 1994 - EU release in September 1994).
This game got released in 1993 (DOS) resp. 1994 (3DO).

The last official release for the 3DO got released in 1996 (Creature Shock).

Why was this even made?.

no way!!! XD

Yes! A charmingly trashing game about a loser starting to date, with cringe dialog lines. Yes, please!

...

WHY?

'Plumbers Don't Wear Ties' became a symbol of everything people perceived as being wrong with the 3DO. The 3DO gained a reputation for being filled with crap games, and it seemed like just anything got licensed, which led to a significant downturn. This reputation made it difficult to attract major publishers and developers to create games for the system. The final games on the 3DO came from minor and indie developers, and the system struggled to gain any traction. 'Plumbers Don't Wear Ties' is often cited as a major part of this damaging reputation, which they never managed to reverse.

So, when I say it 'killed off' the 3DO, it does not mean that the system died the day after, but rather that it was a long, slow decline.

Nostalgia cash grab, gotta be.
as for the question related to the title back in the day, shovelware.