Shanghai: The Great Wall
上海 万里の長城

1995.03.24 Sony Computer Entertainment


History of SHANGHAI:The Great Wall

215B.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   CoCo2   C64
Atari ST   Amiga   MSDOS
and AppleII.

1987:
Shanghai licensed for arcade
and Famicom in Japan.

1989:
Shanghai licensed on 13 plat
forms in Japan:
MEGA DRIVE   NEC   MSX   GAME BOY
PC Engine;Sharp   Casio
Sharp X68000   Matsushita
NEC personal computers
FM TOWNS   Panasonic U I
Toshiba RUPO   Canon AI 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 Shanhai:
Great Moments for IBM and
Macintosh in the USA.

1993:
Design and development begin on
Shanhai:The Great Wall in
Japan for 3DO PC9801
Sega 32 bit   Super Famicon
X68000   arcade   and FM FOWNS.

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

1995:
Shanghai:The Great Wall
released for Sony PlayStation
in Japan.


STAFF
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


Programmed by
HIROKI YANAGISAWA
TUKASA NANBA

Graphics by
KAZUTOSHI YASHIKI
SHINOBU ITOH
MASAHIRO FUKUDA
TOMOMI YANO

Music by
DAISUKE OKAMOTO

Sound by
KEIICHI NISHIMOTO
MASATO TAKADA

Special Thanks to
BILL SWARTZ
MIKA KAWAMURA
SHINICHI MATUOKA
AKIRA SATO
YUKIO NAGASAKI
RYOJI AKAGAWA
EIICHI ABE
AMI NITTA
AKIRA KOIKE
SCE DEBUGGERS
AND STAFFS OF
SUCCESS CORP.


Directed by
KAZUNORI YAMAUCHI
TOMOHIRO HASEKURA
KAZUTOSHI YASHIKI
<SUCCESS CORP.>

Sound Produced by
TOMOHIKO FUKUOKA
<ANTINOS MUSIC INC.>
TAKAMI FUJISAWA


Produced by
TAKATO YOSHINARI <SUCCESS CORP.>
SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC.

<C> 1995 ACTIVISION


Presented by
SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC.


Credits from the Japan PS1 release.
Image Source
© 1995 Sony Computer Entertainment / Activision