Ganso Family Mahjong (1998)

Developer: Nichibutsu
Publisher: Nihon Bussan, HAMSTER
Platforms: PlayStation 3, PlayStation, PlayStation Portable
Genres: Card & Board Game

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How it feels

A calm, unhurried mahjong experience that eases players in with tutorials and lets them progress steadily through board-style story matches against computer opponents.

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About

Ganso Family Mahjong is a mahjong game is which the player is a gambler (male or female one, since the game allows the player to choose a name, genre, blood type, etc) that in the new story mode he goes through some kind of board in which he advance playing mahjong matches againts computer opponents. The game also features a tournament mode, a free game mode and also a complete tutorial.

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