Mahjong is a game for four players that originated in China. It was called, meaning sparrow in ancient China, which is still the name most commonly used in some southern Chinese dialects such as Cantonese and Minnan, as well as in Japanese. However, most Mandarin-speaking Chinese now call the game má jiàng.
Mahjong involves skill, strategy, and calculation, as well as a certain degree of luck (depending on the variation played, luck can be anything from a minor to a dominant factor in winning). 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.
Legendary Gambler Tetsuya (Shoubushi Densetsu Tetsuya) is a gambling manga written by Fumei Sai and Yasushi Hoshino. In 2000, it won the Kodansha Manga Award for shonen. It has been adapted by Toei Animation as a 20-episode anime television series broadcast on TV Asahi from 7 October 2000 to 24 March 2001.
In the year 1947, the people of Shinjuku are down on their luck. With little money to buy food or necessities, some resort to gambling in order to survive. Traveling Tetsuya chooses to spend his time at Mahjong parlors where he is wiping the floor clean with his adversaries. However, Tetsuya meets the intensely-skilled Boushu-san, this is when he realizes that his skills are still lacking.
Gambler Densetsu Tetsuya Digest is a mahjong game from Athena. This new installment in the popular Japanese Mahjong series "Gambler Densetsu" features four scenarios -- players have conversations with the roster of 26 characters while trying to beat them in the ancient board game. In addition to its large cast, the game includes three gameplay modes, a scenario battle mode, a free battle mode, and a survival battle mode. Released in Japan in May 2005, the game's official title is Shoubushi Densetsu: Tetsuya DIGEST, but with the furigana subtitle "Gambler" for Shoubushi.
MANUFACTURER'S DESCRIPTION:
Mahjong game with the theme of the popular comic "game legend Tetsuya nurses" series. Scenario as well as Tetsuya, Boshu, Inami, of Chilly also included. Combi is freedom of hitting seven in the "combination strategy system". The professional technology, it is possible to pick-up, to full use of more than 100 to the skill and original work of the familiar left handicraft, swallow-back, such as cancer tiles!
FEATURES:
- First person perspective.
- 2D graphics
- Cartoon graphics
- Mahjong & Anime themes.
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