Hyper Value 2800: Mahjong

Publisher: Konami

Developer: Konami

Release Date: 1/23/2000

Date Played: 1/12/2017

Region: Japan 

Time Played: A half hour

What’d you think?: I was cocky going into this game. I knew that in this context, “Mahjong” wasn’t the solitaire-style tile removal game that many Westerners know it to be, and was more akin to gin rummy. I knew it took 4 players, had “prevailing winds”, and what I knew as melds were called kongs. I thought that would be enough. I was wrong. There were more intricacies to the rules than I had realized, and I stumbled through one game with no idea what I was actually doing, and didn’t figure it out in time. If you know the game, it’s probably actually a pretty good time; there seemed to be a bit more to it than just playing Mahjong, you could earn money and go around a city buying things.   

YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWo3yoex8z4

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