Shanghai: The Great Wall
上海 万里の長城

1995.02.24 Sunsoft


HISTORY
OF
SHANGHAI : THE GREAT WALL

215 B.C.
Great Wall of China built to
keep out Mongol hordes.

1368
Great Wall of China restored.

????
Game of Mah-Jongg originates
in China.

1907
Mah-Jongg introduced in Japan.

1923
Joseph P.Babcock introduces
Mah-Jongg to the West; game
now a hit in two continents.

1986
Original Macintosh version of
Shanghai, introducing a new
way to use the Mah-Jongg
tiles, is released in the USA
by Activision.

1986
Shanghai ported to
8 platforms: Apple IIGS, Tandy
CoCo3, C64, Atari ST, Amiga,
MSDOS, and AppleII.

1989
Shanghai licensed on
13 platforms in Japan:
Mega Drive, MSX, Game Boy,
X68000, PC Engine; Sharp,
Casio, Matsushita, and NEC
personal computers, FM TOWNS,
Panasonic U-I, Toshiba RUPO
Canon A-1 NOTE, and
Canon-Alpha.

1989
Shanghai 2.0 for Macintosh.

1990
ShanghaiII: Dragon's Eye
for IBM/DOS.

1990
ShanghaiII licensed on Atari
Lynx and on 8 platforms in
Japan: Sanyo, Oasys,
Sony Produce, Sega Game Gear,
Famicom disk, arcade,
Super Famicom.

1991
ShanghaiII:Dragon's Eye
for Macintosh.

1992
1992's crop of licenses:
Mega Drive, arcade, AppleII.

1993
ShanghaiII:Dragon's Eye
released on SNES.

1993
More activity in Japan:
arcade, Sanrio.

1993
Design and development
begin on multimedia version
of ShanghaiIII for IBM and
Macintosh in the USA.

1993
Design and development
begin on Shanghai: The Great
Wall in Japan for Saturn, 3DO
Play Station, Super Famicom,
PC9801, X68000, FM Towns, and
arcade.

1994
ShanghaiII: Dragon's Eye
released for Genesis and
Windows in USA.

STAFF

Game Design

Classic Shanghai : BRODIE LOCKARD
Great Wall : JOHN SPINALE
TOM SLOPER
Beijing : PETER DOCTOROW
TOM SLOPER
Qingdao : SUCCESS CORP.
TOM SLOPER

Plot Developed by
HIDEHIKO SAKAMOTO
KAZUTOSHI YASHIKI
MASAHIRO FUKUDA
TOM SLOPER

Programed by
MASARU HATSUYAMA
HIDEHIKO SAKAMOTO

Graphics by
KAZUTOSHI YASHIKI
MASAHIRO FUKUDA
SHINOBU ITOH
TOMOMI YANO

Sound by
SHIGEHARU ISODA
MASATO TAKADA

Special Thanks to
BILL SWARTZ
MIKA KAWAMURA
ALAN GERSHENFELD
BRIAN G.KELLY
SHINICHI MATSUOKA
AND THE STAFF OF
SUCCESS CORP.

Directed by
KAZUTOSHI YASHIKI

Produced by
TAKATO YOSHINARI



© 1995 SUN CORP.
© 1995 ACTIVISION
© 1995 SUCCESS CORP.



Presented by
SUN CORP.


Credits from the Japan Saturn release.
Image Source
© 1995 Sunsoft / Activision / Success