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Game description: |
Sorry, no English description yet.
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Game Boy control: |
↑ |
↑ |
↓ |
↓ |
← |
← |
→ |
→ |
Start/Stop |
Enter |
Select |
Shift |
button A |
X |
button B |
Z |
Save/Load |
F7/F8 |
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Other platforms:
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This game can be played also in a versions for
NES and
SMS. Others are coming soon.
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Game info: |
box cover
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Game title: |
Shanghai |
Console: |
Game Boy |
Author (released): |
Activision, Inc. (1986) |
Genre: |
Puzzle |
Mode: |
Single-player |
Design: |
Brodie Lockard |
Music: |
Naoki Kodaka |
Game manual: |
not available
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Download: |
not available (stream only)
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Game size: |
32 kB |
Recommended emulator: |
Visual Boy Advance |
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
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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. It 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. The Macintosh and Sega Master System version shows an animated dragon spitting fire.
The 144 tiles are arranged in a special four-layer pattern with their faces upwards. A tile is said to be open or exposed if it can be moved either left or right without disturbing other tiles. The goal is to match open pairs of identical tiles and remove them from the board, exposing the tiles under them for play. The game is finished when all pairs of tiles have been removed from the board or when there are no exposed pairs remaining.
Tiles that are below other tiles cannot be seen. But by repeated undos and/or restarts which some programs offer, one gradually gets more and more information. Sometimes, tiles are only partially covered by other tiles, and the extent to which such tiles can be distinguished depends on the actual tile set. Playing Mahjong solitaire optimally in the sense to maximize the probability of removing all tiles is PSPACE-complete, and the game gets NP-complete when peeking below tiles is allowed. A sample of 10,000,000 games with the default layout, 'the turtle', which were analyzed in about 40 hours on a single processor thread, revealed that between 2.95 and 2.96 percent of the turtles cannot be solved even if peeking is allowed.
More details about this game can be found on
Wikipedia.org.
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For fans and collectors:
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Find this game on video server
YouTube.com
or
Vimeo.com.
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Buy original game or Game Boy console on
Amazon.com
or
eBay.com.
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Find digital download of this game on
GOG
or
Steam.
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Videogame Console: |
This version of Shanghai was designed for the Game Boy console, which was an 8-bit handheld video game console manufactured
by Nintendo in the years 1989 - 2003. It was the first ever handheld video game console with exchangeable game cartridges, but it only supported black and
white screen. The Game Boy console has been extremely commercially successful and has sold more than 118 million units (including its successors Game
Boy Pocket and Color). Its unit price on US market was $ 90. More information about the Game Boy console can be found
here. |
Recommended Game Controllers:
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You can control this game easily by using the keyboard of your PC (see the table next to the game). However, for maximum gaming enjoyment, we strongly recommend using a USB gamepad that you simply plug into the USB port of your computer. If you do not have a gamepad, buy a suitable USB controller in Amazon or in some of your favorite online stores.
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Available online emulators: |
5 different online emulators are available for Shanghai. These emulators differ not only in the technology they use to emulate old games, but also in support of various game controllers, multiplayer mode, mobile phone touchscreen, emulation speed, absence or presence of embedded ads and in many other parameters. For
maximum gaming enjoyment, it's important to choose the right emulator, because on each PC and in different Internet browsers, the individual emulators behave differently. The basic
features of each emulator available for this game Shanghai are summarized in the following table:
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Emulator
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Technology
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Multiplayer
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USB gamepad
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Touchscreen
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Without ads
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NeptunJS
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JavaScript
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YES
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YES
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NO
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NO
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NesBox
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Flash
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NO
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YES
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NO
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YES
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RetroGames.cc
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JavaScript
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YES
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YES
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YES
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NO
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JavaBoy
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Java applet
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NO
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NO
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NO
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YES
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Emulatrix
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JavaScript
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NO
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NO
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NO
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YES
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