Yoshimoto Mahjong Club
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…
Yoshimoto Mahjong Club is a card & board game developed by Psikyo, released 17 December 1998 on PlayStation and Sega Saturn.
What Yoshimoto Mahjong Club is
Yoshimoto Mahjong Club is a card & board game game developed by Psikyo and released in 1998. It is available on PlayStation and Sega Saturn.
The premise, in the publisher's words
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.
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
Yoshimoto Mahjong Club launched on 17 December 1998, within three weeks of Suikoden II, Crazy Taxi (1999), Mario Party and Thief: The Dark Project.
Released around the same time: Suikoden II, Crazy Taxi (1999), Mario Party, Thief: The Dark Project.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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