Shanghai (1986)

Activision

Amiga · Arcade · Atari Lynx · Atari ST/STE · Commodore C64/128/MAX · Family Computer · MSX2 · Nintendo Entertainment System · PC-8800 Series · PC-9800 Series · Sega Master System/Mark III · Sharp X68000 · TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine

2.64 from 11 ratings

41 members have it in their collection · 11 backlogged · 5 wish listed

Shanghai is a computerized version of mahjong solitaire. After winning a game, the tiles reveal the three-dimensional blinking eye of a dragon behind the game screen. The Macintosh and Sega Master System version shows an animated dragon spitting fire.
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Details

Developers
Activision
Publishers
Activision, Hudson Soft
Genres
Puzzle
Series
Shanghai

Release dates

  • Oct 1986 (North_America) Commodore C64/128/MAX
  • 1986 (Worldwide) Amiga
  • May 1987 (Japan) PC-8800 Series, PC-9800 Series
  • Oct 30, 1987 (Japan) TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine
  • Dec 04, 1987 (Japan) Family Computer
  • 1987 (Japan) Sharp X68000
  • Mar 1988 (Worldwide) Arcade
  • Oct 1988 (North_America) Sega Master System/Mark III
  • 1990 (Worldwide) Atari Lynx
  • Oct 1996 (North_America) Commodore C64/128/MAX
  • TBD (Worldwide) Atari ST/STE, MSX2
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Rating distribution

5 stars
1
4 stars
1
3 stars
5
2 stars
1
1 star
3
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Community All Reviews Statuses

Yungbeck

Review Yungbeck 3/5 · Apr 25, 2022

My Hjong

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Shanghai is pretty much just Mahjong on a handheld. But what it does, it does well. The music is BANGING and its probably what made me continue playing this as kid to try to figure out what the hell to do. I was like 5, and here's all these (to me) strange symbols on 144 tiles spread out and stacked. …

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covr

Shanghai is pretty much just Mahjong on a handheld. But what it does, it does well. The music is BANGING and its probably what made me continue playing this as kid to try to figure out what the hell to do. I was like 5, and here's all these (to me) strange symbols on 144 tiles spread out and stacked. But - I had played 'memory' at grandmas house so this made perfect sense.

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Your goal is to clear all tiles by matching pairs. You can only play tiles at the end of the stack, so you need to plan ahead and can't just wing it and hope to win. I loved to play this in the car, as I could just look up out the window and not pay that much attention, while still playing and listening to that awesome music.

This is realistically hard to rate higher than a [2] but the music, solid gameplay and some nostalgia makes it for me an easy [3] / [5]

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