Mahjong fans! Here you go! Haha

[creatine28]

http://catver.freemameroms.com/arcade/mahjong.htm


Just in case you ever wondered how to play these game!  Might as well learn, there's enough of them!

[Apollo]

Thanks for that I'm going to give a few games a whirl tonight.

[BlackThorne]

Btw. are all Arcade-Mahjong games played this way? I remember some old pc-versions where you just have to find to matching tiles. I know that's not how the real mahjong is played but i jut likes it better that way. Are any of the arcade-mahjong's played like this?

[Lilwolf]

Thats not the same mahjong game...

Correct me if I'm wrong... But Mahjong is the same as saying playing cards...  And there are many games that can use either.

btw, there ARE some matching mahjong games in mame.  The only one I can think of is an 'adult' game (really bad porn pictures.. older) but kind of fun.  There is another one... but I don't know the name...  I usually play the adult because its easier to find (less adult games)..

Last... The REAL way to play is to download the cheats...  Enable them... Set yourself up every shot with a 'super' winning hand... And getting right into the porn!

But I do hear that they are fun to play.  I've considered buying a set and learning how to play with my wife.

Btw. are all Arcade-Mahjong games played this way? I remember some old pc-versions where you just have to find to matching tiles. I know that's not how the real mahjong is played but i jut likes it better that way. Are any of the arcade-mahjong's played like this?

[Howard_Casto]

Those mame mahjong instructions have been floating around for ages.  They don't even tell you how to accurately play the game pictured.  Each mahjong game has slightly different controls.  Some are the same but there is enough difference to make these instructions useless.  Also there are different variants of the game, sorta like 5 card stud to poker.  

And most importantly as chess is to checkers in terms of complexity, so is mahjong to a good old american game of poker.  They tell you how to win one or two small hands.  From what I understand there are hundreds of ways to win at this game.  

I'm with lilwolf on this one.  If you are american and you are playing these games then it's probably for the lame porn.  Just activate the cheats and save yourself a headache.    

[u_rebelscum]

"Mahjong" is sort of like the card game "rummy"; both have 2, 3, and 4 player versions.  The 2 player arcade mahjong is more like "gin rummy".

Except there are way more variations of mahjong.  "Chinese Classic Mah-Jongg", "Hong Kong Mahjong", "Taiwanese Mahjong", "Japanese Mahjong", and "Vanilla Westen Mahjong" are some examples of 4 player variations; most of the differences is in the scoring and what makes a winning hand, but even each of these have varying "house rules", some what like "poker".


The "mahjong" you see a lot as PC games are like saying "I'm going to play baseball," going outside with a plastic bat, swinging the bat and running in a square, all by yourself.  You can play solitare with poker cards, you sure don't call it poker.  The PC games are called "solitaire mahjong", "Shanhai Mahjong", or "tile matching".  "Tile matching" is the most accurate name, but that has no marketing appeal, so marketing has abused a word ("Mahjong") so much it is starting to take up a new meaning, again.


Personally, I have been playing what I believe is a "chinese classical mahjong, with some hong kong rules, and simplified scoring" with physical tiles with some of my friends.  I few people I know (and played with) play Hong Kong with the real scoring.  I like them more than the 2 player mame mahjongs I've tested, but I havn't tried very many.

A couple other mahjong links:
Mah-Jongg FAQ  mostly real mahjong, but includes refs to mahjong in mame.
links to rules
simple classic rules

[ahofle]

Btw. are all Arcade-Mahjong games played this way? I remember some old pc-versions where you just have to find to matching tiles. I know that's not how the real mahjong is played but i jut likes it better that way. Are any of the arcade-mahjong's played like this?

I think you're thinking of the game Shanghai (which is in mame).  The tiles do look the same, but it's a memory/matching game.  I prefer that game myself too.

[BlackThorne]

  Yes, that's the game! Thanks!