
Own tile sets, layouts, sounds and backgrounds to use in the games. Some of the major games the user can often make their It's simple to learn and challenging to master. Your own pace since it is designed to relax the user, not to stress him. They gives you're concentration and pattern-recognition a good workout, but can be taken at TheyĪre extremely strategic in nature, but has no arcade or "adrenaline Games belong to what you can call the ' meditative strategy genre'. Possible folk origin of the game has been much debated.įor a more detailed discussion about the origin of Shanghai and ‘The Turtle’, Might have been based on an old Chinese game called 'The Turtle'. Widely known brand names include Taipei, Kyodai, 'Shanghai Solitaire', 'Shanghai type games' or The tile-matching games and the genre has no universally accepted name, but are now mostly known under the name of ‘ Solitaire This has led to much confusion and debate over what is mahjongg and what is not. Many tile-matching game authors have called and describe their games as Mahjongg games. Shanghai is a registered trademark and the game originally used Over the years hundreds of imitators, clonesĪnd / or improved versions have been made. Shanghai has been ported toĬreated a whole new genre. Selling more than ten millions copies world-wide. Shanghai is one of the most successful computer games in history, (original idea, programming and artwork) and Brad Fregger (producer). (California, USA) for the Macintosh in 1986. the second computer tile-matching solitaire mahjongg game was released by 'Activision' Made tile-matching solitaire mahjongg famous. "only" was the second one, it was the game that Has long been thought that it was Activision's Shanghai from 1986 who was theįirst computer solitaire mahjongg game. In 1983 a new version was formallyĭata Corporation as an paid online game.

Mah-Jongg was freely available for everyone to use. PLATO through terminals in the US and some from other countries. University of Illinois, USA and was an educational system. PLATO was a group of mainframe computers originally located at the the Solitaire MahJongg - a guide to the world of the computer tile-matchingĬomputer solitaire mahjongg game was created by Brodie Lockard in 1981 on the
