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.

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]