Mahjong Kazoku

Mahjong Kazoku

Console: Famicom Disk System
TV Standard: Region Not Set
Developer(s): Irem Corp.
Publisher(s): Irem Corp.
Release Date: 1987-08-04
Co-op: No
Type: Sports

Mahjong Kazoku is a Mahjong game released only in Japan for the Famicom Disk System.

Mahjong Kazoku ("Mahjong Family") is a standard Mahjong simulation game for Nintendo's Famicom Disk System. It is a one-on-one version of the game, rather than the standard four-player board game arrangement, and it incorporates many of the various and byzantine scoring rules of the game.

Irem developed and published the game but left a mysterious licensing credit to Ox Inc. on the title screen. It's possible the game is a port of an obscure Japanese Mahjong computer game, or at least borrows some of its coding for the AI opponent or scoring systems.