Also, with 4 of each tile available, the player must sometimes decide which two out of three free tiles to match to get the most optimal result. The strategy and the addictive factor lie in removing tiles in the most optimal way possible to free up additional tiles and increase one’s possible moves. Only by eliminating higher stacked tiles can the player see and eventually eliminate the tiles underneath. Additionally, the stacks of tiles prevent the player from seeing which tiles are hidden in the underlying layers, and the ‘free to move’ rule applies to all layers. This means that initially only the outer-facing tiles are free. The catch? Tiles must be ‘free to move’ that is, unobstructed to be removed by sliding the tile either left or right.
There are 36 different tiles with 4 of each tile in a standard game (144 tiles in total), and the goal is to match and remove two tiles at time until all 144 tiles are gone. There is no strict rule as to how the turtle pattern is to be arranged, although loosely, the pattern must be symmetrical, pyramid-shaped – using 4 layers of tiles with a peak in the centre – and turtle-shaped meaning, there are 4 ‘arms’ sticking out in the pattern. A tile-matching logic game, Mah-jong tiles are arranged in a ‘turtle’ pattern. The original game dates back centuries and is usually a 3 or 4 player game what Activision have produced is a one-player affair known as Mah-jong Solitaire. Shanghai is Activision’s videogame take on the traditional Chinese tile game Mah-jong. Such a popular game, and yet most of us in the West have never heard of it. Activision’s decision to release a Saturn Shanghai game a mere three months after the console’s Japanese launch was a no-brainer. Across all platforms, Shanghai sold over 10 million copies since the original 1986 release. In fact, during the 80s and 90s, the studio was colloquially known as ‘the Shanghai company’ in the land of the rising sun, such was the popularity of their games. One of the very few North American Saturn games published by ActivisionĪctivision have a long history of producing Shanghai games for the Japanese market for all manner of platforms (Amiga, Fujitsu’s FM Towns, the MSX, the Master System and many others) and even arcades.
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