What computer game is this?

October 8, 2006 4:37 AM

What computer game did we play at school circa 1993?

I'm trying to remember the name of a game that we used to play during free periods in my computer class in high school. It was a mac game in which a bunch of patterned squares were stacked on a white background, and you had to find matching sets of squares in order to reveal the ones below. You'd win the level by matching them all.

Every kid in my school played this game, and I've talked to other adults my age who remember playing this game in school as children, but I can't remember what it's called.

posted by decathecting to Computers & Internet (9 answers total)

Mah-Jongg?
posted by dirtynumbangelboy at 4:40 AM on October 8, 2006

Probably Mahjong Solitaire, more accurately. Mahjong is quite different. There's a so-so version to play online here.
posted by wackybrit at 4:59 AM on October 8, 2006

Here is an insanely comprehensive list of Solitaire MahJongg games for the Mac, you should be able to find yours there somewhere. Some of them have download links.
posted by teleskiving at 6:28 AM on October 8, 2006

Best answer: I remember my school's iteration of the game was called "Taipei" for some reason.
posted by jeffrygardner at 6:28 AM on October 8, 2006

The page wackybrit linked to mentions that the name of the game was Shanghai, which is the one I remember from my OS 7 days circa 1998. If you're looking to recreate the experience, there's now a shareware version for OS X called Aki.
posted by Johnny Assay at 8:38 AM on October 8, 2006

My guess is that it was a game called "Gunshy"
posted by Good Brain at 9:53 AM on October 8, 2006

I'm sorry to hear that you missed out on the best game ever.
posted by Deathalicious at 11:11 AM on October 8, 2006

Response by poster: Jeffrygardner has it, although it looks like several of the others are the same game by different names.

And yes, we also played Oregon Trail; but I didn't forget the name of that one.

Thanks, everyone!
posted by decathecting at 1:38 PM on October 8, 2006

"Gunshy" was Shanghai under a different name, Good Brain. :) The version of it I had, had the faces of a bunch of cartoony gangsters and such on each tile. Shanghai, Taipei, Gunshy, etc. -- all the same game, and a lot of fun.
posted by litlnemo at 2:25 PM on October 8, 2006