Comments on: Mahjong Solitaire from Sunsoft

By: blakespot

blakespot — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 01:51:55 +0000

I had Shanghai on the Apple IIgs, its release platform. It was one of the very first titles for the GS – the first game, certainly. Good times.

By: Robert Jung

Robert Jung — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 23:22:06 +0000

I hate to nitpick, but technically mahjongg is an ancient four-player tile game similar to Gin Rummy. The game Sunsoft is selling (as many others have before them) is a Solitaire-like game first sold by Activision in the 1980s as "Shanghai".

If Shanghai is "ancient", then the *real* mahjongg must be positively neolithic…

–R.J.

By: MacTheSpoon

MacTheSpoon — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:20:53 +0000

I like the implementation of pinching in/out, that was a very good idea.

By: BJ Wanlund

BJ Wanlund — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 02:30:36 +0000

You mean… THAT SunSoft? The same folks who gave us a number of the Looney Tunes video games in the SNES era??

Okay, THAT'S cool!