Yakuman (video game)
| Yakuman | |
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| Developer(s) | Intelligent Systems |
| Publisher(s) | Nintendo |
| Composer(s) | Hirokazu Tanaka[1] |
| Platform(s) | Game Boy |
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| Genre(s) | Board game |
| Mode(s) | Single-player Multiplayer |
| Distribution | Cartridge |
Yakuman (役満) is a 1989 mahjong video game developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo for its handheld Game Boy system. This video game is a direct prequel to the Nintendo DS video game Yakuman DS.[3]
Summary
One of the four original Game Boy games available for the Japanese launch of that system on April 21, 1989. Released alongside Alleyway, Super Mario Land, and Baseball, it bears the distinction of being the only of the four Japanese Game Boy launch titles never released outside of Japan.[4] If there are two copies, two Game Boys and a link cable, two-player mode is possible.[4]
Yakuman is the name of the winning hand in the Chinese board game, mahjong. Players have to beat the opponent's hand by either matching panels of different numbers within the same family or by grouping panels that belong to the same family in different numbers.[5]
The options to turn off the background music for the game and to manipulate the difficulty of the game's artificial intelligence can be found on the main menu.[6] Players have a choice of five opponents to play with; four male and one female.