Shanghai: True Valor (Game)

Shanghai: True Valor

GAME » on August 1998

The sixth arcade entry brings the Shanghai series of mahjong solitaire games into full 3D.

Overview

Shanghai: Matekibuyuu (loosely translated to "Shanghai: True Valor") is a mahjong solitaire game developed and released by SUNSOFT (under license from Activision (Company)) for arcades (using PS1-based Tecmo ZN-1 hardware) exclusively in Japan on August 1998. An sixth arcade entry in the Shanghai (Franchise) series, Matekibuyuu is the first to render the entire board in 3D (allowing players to pivot the camera around the board) and features three game modes:

Classic Shanghai (Koten Shanghai) - Traditional one-player mahjong solitaire.
Battle Shanghai (Taisen Shanghai) - Based on the two-player battle mode in Shanghai III (Game), Battle Shanghai is a two-player versus variant (either human-vs-human or human-vs-computer) where each player works to unlock and tap the "golden tile", found somewhere on the bottom of their own separate layout, first. This version features power-up tiles to either aid themselves or hinder their opponent.
Rolling Shanghai - New addition to the series. Plays similarly to Classic Shanghai, but the layout is split into four different parts along faces of a cube (which can be rotated at any time).

It was later released to the Sony PlayStation on September 23, 1998, and received an overseas localization (as Shanghai: True Valor) in both North America (on May 31, 1999) and Europe (sometime in 1999). This version supports the PlayStation Mouse peripheral and includes both a port of the arcade version and an "Original" version reminiscent of the series's home games.

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