On Wed, 06 Oct 2004 14:33:43 GMT, "J. R. Fitch"
<jrfitch@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>Egames is where "Mah Jongg The Real Game" has been laid to rest. Just to
>add more confusion to the world, it was re-titled "Mah Jongg The Game of
>Four Winds".
>
>--
>J. R.
That's what I figured. "Mah Jongg: The Game of Four Winds" was the
only title on there that I knew would be the 4-handed game, and there
was only one graphic shown on the package that looked like the
4-handed game, and I recognized that from Bloem's "Mah Jongg: The Real
Game". So I figured it had been renamed.
I currently have the unregistered version of that game, and I was
thinking that, if the Variety Pack offered the registered game, then
I'd be able to buy it for $10, as opposed to about $40 (or whatever
the current US equivalent would be), as stated in the game's
documentation.
As for other Mah Jong computer programs, at present I'm torn between
"Four Winds Mah Jong 2.0" and "Hong Kong Mah Jong" (I have shareware
versions of both of these, too). Both are terrific, beautifully-
rendered games. HKMJ has a simulation of a playing-table layout that
I like, and I like the animated pictures of the opponents. But 4WMJ
offers me the op****tunity to learn so many more variations (which
makes it, in effect, more than one game, for a little higher price
than HKMJ), and I can take back a mistakenly-discarded tile (really,
really useful when learning). If I were going to get just one Mah
Jong program, right now it'd be a contest between those two. (Combine
the above-mentioned features of both programs into one, and I'd buy it
in a heartbeat.)
(And it's "Mister X", last time I checked. ;-) )
x@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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