Mahjongg: Ancient Mayas [Download]

by Cerasus Media

Product Features

• 11 Game Variations And 3 Difficulty Setttings.
• Create Your Own Levels.
• 300 Board Layouts To Complete.
• Choose Your Own Tilesets And Music To Play.

Product Details

• Downloading: Currently, this item is available only to customers located in the United States and who have a U.S. billing address.
• Note: Gifting is not available for this item.
• ASIN: B002E9I92G
• Release Date: June 9, 2009
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #11,543 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #11 in Video Games > Game Downloads > Casual Games > Mah Jong
  • #11 in Video Games > PC Games > Mah Jong

Product Description

Embark upon a fantastic adventure to the empire of the Mayas. Go back in time 2,000 years and discover the mysterious temples and fabulous treasures of this once powerful and enigmatic culture! Play adventure mode and try to solve the mystical puzzle surrounding the ancient temple of Tikal or simply select your favorite Mahjongg boards on over 300 layouts. Experience classical Mahjongg or try one of the 11 unbelievable game variations. You will love the detailed graphics, the fantastic animations and the atmospheric music!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

24 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars addicting game, September 25, 2009

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Marie R. Fischer "Rocket" (Rochester, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

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I enjoy playing Mahjongg - which I knew the game as Taipei. Such a simple little game and so addicting. Just what I need at the end of the day. Still keeps my brain active and yet relaxing. When you finish one puzzle, it will give you the next one in succession. The adventure mode is interesting and tells you a story along the way. This game is downloaded from Amazon and the price is great. Can't go wrong with that combination. Enjoy

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic game and great improvement over the usual plain vanilla game, September 22, 2010

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Lawrence Brown "Larry Brown" (HOUSTON, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Mahjongg: Ancient Mayas [Download] (Software Download)

Fantastic game and great improvement over the usual plain vanilla game
This is an awesome game. It has great cartoon style graphics of the rainforest and Mayan pyramids, etc. It leads you on adventures past various famous actual Mayan sites like Tikál (Guatemala) and Copán (Honduras). It features various Mayan flavored tilesets and photographic backgrounds of rain-forest, beach, waterfall, pyramids, etc. It also features some fantastic rain-forest flavored music. I actually don't know what Mayan music should sound like, but this music sounds like African jungle music and I also noticed some Peruvian sounding pan-flutes. It's good music on an absolute scale and also contributes heavily to the rain-forest adventure atmosphere. It also features archeological sound effects like heavy stone tablets sliding open, monkeys, birds, and (presumably) Mayan natives grunting (sometimes in tune with the music).

The game is a big improvement over the usual Mahjongg game in several ways: The entire game is slickly produced and operates smoothly, more so than expected. The Mayan theme is used throughout: the cursor, help windows, tiles, backgrounds, music and sound effects, lettering, command buttons, every single thing that you see on the screen has a Mayan theme. The game opens up new features (like tilesets) as you progress through it. Most importantly, this version of Mahjongg elevates the usual simply one-dimensional game into an actual game with time awards, multiple levels, a storyline, surprise features, and special bonus tiles (for example a wildcard tile). In "adventure" mode, you work your way through a Mayan adventure by visiting Mayan sites (starting with El Gran Jaguar in Tikál) and solving a Mahjongg puzzle at each site. When you solve the puzzle, then you move on to the next Mayan site, possibly adding some game features along the way. I won't spoil the surprise of the bonus tiles. An additional delightful surprise is a comic book intro story in the vein of Indiana Jones.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Fun Game, but . . ., December 24, 2010

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Alex (Northern Virginia, USA) - See all my reviews

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It's a fun game, but it insists on minimizing itself at random when I click on a tile. I'm using a Windows 7 64 bit machine. Uninstalled the game.