Underplayed Gems

Yoshimoto Mahjong Club (1998)

Yoshimoto Mahjong Club cover
Developer
Psikyo
Publisher
Psikyo, Success
Platforms
Sega Saturn, PlayStation
Genres
Card & Board Game

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How it feels

Playing feels like a casual, comedy-laced mahjong night where familiar TV personalities crack jokes between rounds as you climb through tournaments for cash and titles.

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About

Yoshimoto Mahjong Club is a comedy-themed mahjong game featuring 26 real-life comedians from talent agency Yoshimoto Kogyo, based on a TV show that ran on SUN-TV between 1997 and 1999. The featured stars are all represented both in live-action video clips and fully-3D in-game models, including voice clips of their signature quips. There is a standard free battle mode, as well as a tournament mode with 16 different titles to win. Winning tournaments will earn money, which is needed to enter and participate in the more advanced tournaments. The PlayStation Deluxe version adds a video gallery mode but is otherwise the same game.

Screenshots

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This page is from Underplayed Gems, a catalog of older and overlooked games. Not quite it? You can browse by platform and genre, or take this one into the 3D catalog and ask the Catbot for something closer.