Hong Kong (1990)
Family Computer Disk System, Game Boy
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Sign up free Already a member? Sign inHong Kong, or Famimaga Disk Vol. 1 Hong Kong, is a Shanghai variant in which players must remove specified tiles from a pattern. The player can select which pattern (from pyramids and hourglasses to more complex designs) from which to draw tiles as well as inputting a three letter code which offers several thousand possible combinations of the tiles within that pattern.
Rather than removing tiles in pairs on the edge of the pattern in order to access buried tiles, as is the norm in Shanghai, the player can select any tile on the board as long as it corresponds to the tile the game requests. However, points are scored based on how many other tiles surround the selected tile: A maximum of 320 points are awarded for tiles completely surrounded on all six sides by other tiles. Any tiles that aren't "standing" on at least one other tile will fall off the board causing a premature game over: players need to balance earning points by removing entrenched tiles while ensuring that no tile will fall off the table as a result of the removal.
Because the game is not a true version of Shanghai it is named after another Chinese city - Hong Kong - instead. Read more
Details
- Genres
- Puzzle, Quiz/Trivia
- Series
- Famimaga Disk
Release dates
- Mar 23, 1990 (Japan) Family Computer Disk System
- 1990 (Japan) Game Boy