Shanghai - NEC PC Engine

Publisher:Hudson  Info
Developer:AlfaSystem  Info
Year:1987
Category:Mahjong
Game Manual:Download (Atari Lynx)
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 Game Music:
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Also on: Amstrad CPC, Arcade, Atari 8-bit, Atari Lynx, Atari ST, Commodore 64, Commodore Amiga, Dragon 32-64, FM Towns Marty, MGT Sam Coupe, Microsoft DOS, MSX 2, NEC TurboGrafx-16, Nintendo DS, Nintendo Famicom Disk System, Nintendo Game Boy, Nintendo NES, Sega Master System, Sharp X68000, Sony PSP, Tandy TRS-80, Tandy TRS-80 CoCo

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Arcade version
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(Nintendo Game Boy Version)


Shanghai is one of the first video game adaptations of the tile-based game played with the Chinese mahjong stones - essentially a puzzle game that has little to do with real mahjong rules.

The gameplay involves 144 tiles, each depicting different images, which have to be removed by matching them into pairs. The tiles are arranged in a gridded pattern, which is higher near the centre. A tile can only be removed if it has no tile next to it on at least one side.

This computer implementation can generate a random board layout to take on and features five preset challenges, some of which have time limits of five or ten minutes, as well as a multiplayer mode.


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