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< Polls ~ Why Japanese rules? |
How did you discover Japanese Riichi Mahjong?
| Akagi |
| [ 2 ] 11% |
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| Game consoles (Playstation, Nintendo, ...) |
| [ 2 ] 11% |
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| MAME Emulators |
| [ 0 ] 0% |
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| Manga |
| [ 0 ] 0% |
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| Books about Japan |
| [ 0 ] 0% |
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| By playing other kinds of Mahjong |
| [ 5 ] 27% |
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| Internet |
| [ 5 ] 27% |
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| I was born or lived for awhile in Japan |
| [ 3 ] 16% |
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| other |
| [ 1 ] 5% |
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| Mah-jong Montreal |
 Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 5:50 pm |
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Location: Montréal (Québec) Canada
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John (Z R L) wrote: so if we do play in the future, a time needs to be organized, e.g. the Yakitori competition at 23rd June 11 AM.
Yeah! See you Sunday, on RON2  |
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| sir_seagill |
| Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 1:36 pm |
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Location: Australia
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It was Akagi
My grandparents taught me the basics at quite a young age. We used to play chicken all the time (eg. 0 fan)
When I was older, I was introduced by friends to hong kong rules (at least that's what I think it is, most Cantonese people here in Australia play it) with a minimum of 3 fan. It was better than chicken but I had no idea how to count scores. Basically the only hands you could make were half flush, full flush or toitoi.
Then a friend introduced me to Akagi. I was instantly intrigued by Japanese rules, how it balances things, more freedom (more hands) etc. After watching it, I wanted to learn the rules and learnt a good deal from reachmahjong.com and a few MAME games.
but yea, it was Akagi that started it (similar to how Hikaru No Go got me into Go) |
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| Shirluban |
| Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 4:55 pm |
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Joined: 19 Sep 2007
Posts: 28
Location: France
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I've discover Mahjong with Berrie Bloem's PC game "Mahjong for Windows" (Chinese Classical), found on a CD of many sheareware's games.
After, I've seen other varients of CC in some general game's books who wouldn't understand that Mahjong is not a domino game.
Finaly I've buy "Shanghai 2nd Dynasty" and discoverd Japanese rule.
A bit difficult to understand the first time, but so better than CC :
- Minimum point requirement force to think, not just call any tile aviable.
- These stupid Flowers go away.
- More tactics with ordoned discard, furiten, dora, kan dora, tenpai payoff, ...
After all, I consider I have come to Japanese rule via other rules rather than video game. |
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| sir_seagill |
| Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 8:12 am |
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Joined: 30 Aug 2007
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Location: Australia
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yea, when I first watched Akagi, I was like "dora? richii? what the - what mah jong is this?"
and yep, I'm glad to play without the flowers too  |
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