Hamster's latest retro release on Switch has been revealed, and this time we're being treated to 1984 arcade title, VS. MAH-JONG.
The game will join the Switch's 'Arcade Archives' series, where players can enjoy classic arcade titles with modernised features like adjustable game settings and leaderboards. Here's the official description from Hamster itself:
"VS. MAH-JONG" is a 2-player Mahjong game released by Nintendo in 1984.
Practice against the computer with 1-player mode or play against friends and family with 2-player mode.
Think whether to make complex Mahjong hand or reliable Mahjong hand and experience the real pleasure of Mahjong!
The game arrives on Switch tomorrow, 21st February, and will be available for $7.99. You'll be able to download it directly from the Switch's eShop.
Earlier this month, Hamster shared a list of titles planned for release on Switch over the coming weeks. If Mahjong isn't your cup of tea, maybe one of those games will do the trick?
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Mahjong isn't my cuppa.
But Activision's Shanghai II is.
But what’s the framerate? We need to know these things...
@WiltonRoots
5 frames per second !
Blazing fast !
Mahjong...seriously...?
I might need this to get good at Mahjong to finally platinum the Yakuza games 😂
@RetroWarrior
Could be worse.
Like Golf or Hand Egg ( American "football")
Is this localised?
@KitsuneNight
Golf is already available. XD
Gaming history has to be preserved, somehow, right?
I would absolutely love to see sales numbers from this title in the west.
VS? Like 2 people are going to be bored enough to play this!
This may well be the least exciting Arcade Archives release yet. Respectfully. The most recently announced games aren't really good. I hope they bring us Bubble Bobble soon, it's on PS4 anyway, so it has to come.
Two-player Mahjong?
That's even more of a meme than sanma.
Let's get a proper 4-player mahjong game in English on the Switch, please.
With JP Riichi ruleset.
I still don't understand how to play Mahjong.
That NES game was my childhood game that i still never understand the gameplay. 😅
Yea....Love you Hamster but i could get by without this one. I have dozens of Mahjong games as well. I’ll be grabbing Sonic 2 anyway today.
Hamster is the laziest videogame company on Earth. Who is buying these terrible games???
They should be porting great Konami and Irem games that have never been ported to home consoles before.
@KitsuneNight Shanghai II is one of my most played SNES games! I would LOVE to see that on the switch too!
Sure a lot of people will appreciate this and happy for them, however my classic arcade memories include Double Dragon, Gauntlet, Kung Fu and Wonder Boy.
Not Mahjong.
@Kiyata
i mostly played the win 3.1 version
this is the mac version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZqh-m9EQ3o but it looks like the windows 3.1 version
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