Mahjong Gokuu Tenjiku (1994) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Mahjong Gokuu Tenjiku

Mahjong Gokū Tenjiku is a mahjong tournament between characters from Xi You Ji ("Journey to the West"), the classic Chinese novel. The player can choose to play as either of the four "good" characters from Xi…

25 June 1994

What Mahjong Gokuu Tenjiku is

Mahjong Gokuu Tenjiku is a card & board game game developed by Chat Noir and released in 1994. It was published by ASCII Corporation. It is available on 3DO Interactive Multiplayer, PC-FX, PlayStation, Sega Saturn and Android.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Mahjong Gokū Tenjiku is a mahjong tournament between characters from Xi You Ji ("Journey to the West"), the classic Chinese novel. The player can choose to play as either of the four "good" characters from Xi You Ji: the Buddhist monk Xuan Zang, the famous monkey Sun Wukong, the pig Bajie, and Xuan Zang's pupil Wujing. They compete against a variety of Xi You Ji villains. The player can choose a location to set the mahjong game in and can configure most of the mahjong rules to their own preference in a special menu.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Mahjong Gokuu Tenjiku launched on 25 June 1994, within three weeks of Donkey Kong, Jazz Jackrabbit, Disney's The Jungle Book and Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors.

Released around the same time: Donkey Kong, Jazz Jackrabbit, Disney's The Jungle Book, Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors.

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