Play BS Super Mahjong Taikai (Japan) Online

BS Super Mahjong Taikai is one of those SNES games that makes you wonder why it never left Japan. The second you start a match, the tiles click into place with this satisfying snap, and the AI actually feels like it’s thinking—none of that obvious "easy mode" nonsense. I got wrecked my first few rounds, but in a way that made me want to figure out what I was doing wrong.

It’s got that weirdly specific 90s charm too, from the synth-heavy background music to the fact it was originally broadcast via satellite (imagine waiting for your game to air like a TV show). The controls are stupidly simple—just point and flip tiles—but there’s depth if you want it. After a while, you start recognizing patterns in the AI’s plays, like that one opponent who always hoards bamboo tiles. Definitely a sleeper hit for mahjong fans with a Super Nintendo.