Shanghai is a tile-based game based on the ancient Chinese game of Mah-Jong.
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Character
Earnest, grave, plot-driven and warm.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- warmbleak
- cooloverwhelming
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About the game
- Platforms
- Game Boy
- Developer
- HAL Laboratory
- Publisher
- HAL Laboratory
- Released
- July 28, 1989
- Modes
- Single player
- Perspective
- Bird view / Isometric
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Similar in taste
Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Curator Co. Other media included when they land close.
Honke Hanafuda 199491% alikeBoth earnest, plot-driven, grave.
Shanghai III 199490% alikeBoth earnest, plot-driven, warm.
Igo: Kyuu Roban Taikyoku 198789% alikeBoth earnest, grave, plot-driven.
Steve Davis World Snooker 198989% alikeBoth earnest, grave, plot-driven.
4-nin Uchi Mahjong 198489% alikeBoth earnest, grave, plot-driven.
Shanghai II 198988% alikeBoth earnest, grave, plot-driven.
Othello 198688% alikeBoth earnest, grave, plot-driven.
Both earnest, grave, plot-driven.
Film · Both earnest, grave, classical in form; this one is more epic.
The Matrix Revisited 200162% alikeFilm · Both earnest, cool, classical in form; this one is more epic.
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