Shanghai II Dragon's Eye PC Game Review - Lazy Game Reviews

Mahjong solitaire is easily one of my favorite ways to relax. And as great as the real thing is I can't help but keep thinking... NEEDS MORE DOS!

Shanghai 2 Dragons Eye for DOS PCs

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[cyde79]

Someday you really should review Stunt Island made in 1992 and published by Disney Interactive. It is awesome! Wikipedia says: "Stunt Island provides an island which contains a number of different sets. The player can position cameras and props around these sets, and create event triggers for things like camera pans and object movement. The game also has an editing mode where the player can splice together taped footage and insert sound effects. The game has a bias towards airplane stunts."

[phreakindee]

@cyde79 I hope to do so eventually. It's on my list of stunt games I want to review, rights up there with Stunts and Motocross Madness.

[TheLogicman1]

I have a question, how do you record these videos on such old computers? Is the screen recorder your using supported by them?

[phreakindee]

@TheLogicman1 I use a few methods... if it's a game at 640x480 or higher at ~30fps, I use video output on the PC itself. This is either composite or S-video built into the video card. 1:59-2:07 is an example of this. Otherwise, I use a VGA scanline converter, which converts VGA signals to S-video.

Alternately I just use DosBox emulated to as close as possible to the original machine when the others fail, running them side-by-side for comparison when capturing. Most gameplay shown here is DosBox

[Fuzzy192006]

Hehe...you were cheating at Mahjong.

Nice review, but..eh...Mahjong games have been done to death, especially since the Bigfish & Co types started to catch on. I couldn't really see anything special about one, even if, at the time, it was a unique concept. It's sort of like tetris: its history is quite fascinating, there were a few lawsuits concerning its first ports, but you still wonder at some level what the big deal was...it's just tetris.You can hit T in utorrent's about menu and play it.

[phreakindee]

@Fuzzy192006 Yup, cheating when impatient is a great way to get some quickie footage... I call it "lazy" for a reason!

And yes, mahjong has been done to death but the advantage with Shanghai II is it's on DOS and that's what I want. It's excellent and is the best for DOS I've played. If you don't care about the DOS platform it doesn't matter and it's really just another mahjong game at that point, but for mahjong solitaire on various color DOS machines it's superb.

[upyoursize]

1:47. Someone has seen the light, other than me. Thank you Phreak. You're a god send from the God of Gaming.

[Ensor42]

As a big fan of mahjong, I have to say that I truly loathe these mahjong solitaire games, mostly because, other than the tiles, they really have almost nothing to do with the ancient and traditional game. The PC games market is swamped with stuff like this, and the real game is hardly ever to be found.

[excalibunny]

are you going to be playing Red Orchestra 2?

[ssslate]

4:22 michael moore

[greengrendel]

ooh i think this is it! god i've been looking for the version I played when I was 5, and I think i recognize the tiles on this. i also recall awesome oriental intro music, bu my tastes were cheap then, so this background music might qualify.

However: I had a mac. Was this game also for mac? Also i remember a background picture you would uncover.

[NIMHFS]

I spy lord havoc's darkplaces...

[kinmanyuen]

play hong kong mahjong... it's more challenging

[Sinni2992]

the best title set is imo the animal set. my dad playes this game until today

[vancereloaded]

Sorry if this has already been mentioned to you, but I just discovered that this game has a port on the Super Nintendo! Called Shanghai II: Dragon's Eye, or Super Shanghai.

It seems to have most of the same features, including that Dragon Eye feature (though it seems to be one player vs computer only), except for making your own tile boards. It even has the animal tiles and sound effects : )

[akumacornflakes]

I don't have anything against these tile-matching games, but PLEASE don't call it Mahjong. The tiles are the only thing that the two have in common. If you use a Tennis ball when you're playing fetch with your dog, that doesn't mean you're playing Tennis.