Platform
Windows 3.x
Released
1990
Published by
Microsoft Corporation

Perspective
Top-down
Pacing
Meditative / Zen
Genre
Puzzle
Gameplay
Cards / Tiles, Tile Matching Puzzle
Visual
Fixed / Flip-screen

Description

A popular Mahjongg adaptation, Taipei has the player attempting to find matches between the Oriental-motif patterns printed atop "free" (generally: exposed, on corners) tiles in various layered formations. Matched pairs disappear, yielding different free tiles and further matching possibilities. Ostensibly, the game is completed when all tiles are matched, though sometimes random tile placement results in unwinnable games.

This game ended up, like many of its brethren, in pretty much every office in the nation courtesy of its inclusion in the Microsoft Entertainment Pack for Windows, and later the Best of Microsoft Entertainment Pack.

From Mobygames.com. Original Entry