| Shanghai (video game) | |
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| Publisher(s) | Activision |
| Platform(s) | Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Apple IIGS, Atari 8-bit, Atari Lynx, Atari ST, Commodore 64, Macintosh, MS-DOS, MSX, Nintendo Entertainment System, Sega Master System, TRS-80 CoCo, TurboGrafx-16 |
| Release date(s) | 1986 |
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Shanghai is a computer game developed by Activision in 1986 for the Amiga, MacIntosh and Apple IIgs and also the Sega Master System.
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Shanghai is a computerized version of mahjong solitaire. After winning a game, the tiles reveal the three-dimensional blinking eye of a dragon behind the game screen.[1]
Shanghai was programmed by Brodie Lockard.[1]
The game was reviewed in 1988 in Dragon #138 by Hartley, Patricia, and Kirk Lesser in "The Role of Computers" column. The reviewers gave the game 5 out of 5 stars.[1] The Lessers reviewed the Atari Lynx version of the game in 1992 in Dragon #181, also giving this version of the game 5 stars.[2]
A sequel to this came was entitled Shanghai II: Dragon's Eye and was released on the Sega Genesis. It was also re-released on the Wii Virtual Console in the PAL regions on November 27, 2009 and in North America on January 11, 2010.