Shanghai

a.k.a. 上海

created and published by Hudson Soft in 1987-10-30, running on PC Engine

type: puzzle, board game
genre: Shanghai solitaire
perspective: bird's-eye
player options: shared-screen, single player

languages: jpn

3.5/5

Personal review

One of the two PC-Engine launch titles in Japan - together with Bikkuriman World. A good but unspectacular version with standard Shanghai rules. Playability is high and its strongest point is the very nice multiplayer-challenge mode.

teran01 # 2013-05-05 07:08:04

Official description

Steady your nerves and concentration. You're about to play Shanghai! Shanghai is based on an ancient game that's over 25 centuries old. Over the years since, it has been a favorite of pirates and smugglers, flappers and gangsters, of working men and the well-to-do. Now you can play it too! The game is simple... the strategy complex. Remove 144 tiles from a pyramid; two matching tiles at a time. But be careful. Remove the wrong two tiles and you're left with no more matching pairs... game over! It's a game everyone can play and enjoy.