Idol Mahjong Final Romance: a slideshow disguised as a video game

Top supplier of great articles Nicole Branagan is at it again.

We're back into the strip mahjong games today, here going back to 1991. Video System is a company that's probably best known in retro-gaming circles for Aero Fighters/Sonic Wings, but mahjong games (usually branded Idol Mahjong) were one of their bigger moneymakers. And there's something interesting going on here- Idol Mahjong Final Romance 2-R-4 Special re-releases the final three games in the series, which all also got contemporary console releases, but the first game in the series has never been seen outside of its original arcade launch. Why?

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Look, you're not going to get something like this from anyone else.