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The first installment in Koei's mahjong series. Mahjong Taikai ("Mahjong Tournament") is a 1989 Famicom mahjong game from Koei and an unknown developer. It features multiple historical figures as possible CPU opponents, including Masamune Date and Napoleon Bonapart. As with any mahjong game, the goal is to complete a winning hand before any of the other players can, and the player earns an amount of points dependent on the "strength" of their winning hand. They might also lose points depending on who won and how. Koei would continue making Mahjong Taikai games for other platforms, including Super Mahjong Taikai for the Super Famicom in 1992.
Family Mahjong II: Shanghai e no Michi is a Mahjong game released only in Japan for the Nintendo Famicom. Family Mahjong II: Shanghai e no Michi is a Mahjong game and the direct sequel to Family Mahjong. In addition to the standard Mahjong mode, there is a tournament mode with a slight RPG aspect to it, in that the player can enhance certain stats after winning games in order to increase their odds in future rounds of the tournament. The game is a one-on-one version of the game, less common in real-life Mahjong games but the standard for computer adaptations due to the reduced complexity of having only a single AI opponent. Nihon Bussan was responsible for Family Mahjong II's development and was at the time fairly well known for their Mahjong Arcade games.
The Mahjong Touhai-den is a Miscellaneous game, developed by Khaos and published by Video System, which was released in Japan in 1993.
Super Mahjong is a Miscellaneous game, published by I'Max, which was released in Japan in 1992.
Super Nichibutsu Mahjong is a Miscellaneous game, published by Nichibutsu, which was released in Japan in 1992.
A mahjong game by Nihon Bussan and published by Namco for the Famicom. Family Mahjong is another in a long line of mahjong games for the Famicom. Uniquely, at least for the time, it does include a full tutorial mode that will teach the player how to actually play mahjong. It also includes rules for mahjong gambling, which is another feature included in the game. After the player has learned how to play, they can compete against a series of CPU opponents in one-on-one matches, most of whom are attractive blonde women for whatever reason.
A Famicom-only Mahjong game that teaches a specific variant called "Attack Mahjong" and one of many Mahjong games presented by expert Ide Yosuke. It also had its own special Mahjong controller. One of a series of Mahjong games presented by Ide Yosuke (sort of the Dr Kawashima of early Mahjong titles), Ide Yosuke Meijin no Jissen Mahjong (or "Ide Yosuke: Master of Attack Mahjong") is a Mahjong game that teaches a very specific gameplay variant. Ide Yosuke Meijin no Jissen Mahjong also came with its own special Mahjong controller that resembles a keyboard. The game is unplayable without it.
A Super Famicom mahjong game and the first title in the Idol Janshi Suchie-Pai mahjong series. Bishoujo Janshi Suchie-Pai ("Pretty Fighter Suchie-Pai") is the first game in what would later be referred to as the Idol Janshi Suchie-Pai series. It's a mahjong game that uses comedy and attractive women to stand out among its more serious peers. The player, as the transforming warrior Suchie-Pai, can move around a world map to challenge various other female characters at mahjong in any order. The characters were designed by Kenichi Sonoda, a famous animator and manga artist best known for the anime and manga Gunsmith Cats, who also worked on Bubblegum Crisis and Gall Force.
Mahjong Kazoku is a Mahjong game released only in Japan for the Famicom Disk System. Mahjong Kazoku ("Mahjong Family") is a standard Mahjong simulation game for Nintendo's Famicom Disk System. It is a one-on-one version of the game, rather than the standard four-player board game arrangement, and it incorporates many of the various and byzantine scoring rules of the game. Irem developed and published the game but left a mysterious licensing credit to Ox Inc. on the title screen. It's possible the game is a port of an obscure Japanese Mahjong computer game, or at least borrows some of its coding for the AI opponent or scoring systems.
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