Wai Wai Jansou

PlayStation · 2000 · JP

Publisher: Hori · Developer: Hori

Mahjong is a game for four players that originated in China. Mahjong involves skill, strategy, and calculation, as well as a certain degree of chance. Depending on the variation which is played, luck can be anything from a minor to a dominant factor in success. In Asia, mahjong is also popularly played as a gambling game. In the game, each player is dealt either thirteen or sixteen tiles in a hand (depending on the variation being played). On their turn, players draw a tile and discard one, with the goal of making four or five melds (also depending on the variation) and one pair, or "head". Winning comes "on the draw", by drawing a new or discarded tile that completes the hand. Thus a winning hand actually contains fourteen (or seventeen) tiles. Wai Wai Jansou (aka Waiwai Jong Sou) is a mahjong game that features 5 different kind of boards and 5 different kind of mahjong tiles. The player can choose at the beginning 3 different opponents and the match rules. The release includes comes in a box that features the game and 2 mahjong controllers. The peculiar thing if this game is the special controller that have a LCD screen in which the player can see his mahjong tiles and using the multitap up to four human players can play at the same time.

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