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Dial Q o Mawase! was a 1992 release for the Sega Genesis, known as the Mega Drive in Japan, developed and published by Sega. It arrived during a period when the console was home to a wide variety of experimental titles, and this game certainly fit that description, offering a strange and specific kind of digital diversion.

You control a detective who must win games of mahjong against female opponents in a club; the main objective is to win hands and collect phone numbers from the characters you defeat. The signature mechanics involve standard mahjong gameplay, but with the unique twist that winning a round causes your opponent to gradually remove clothing, culminating in a pin-up style image. The pacing is methodical, dictated by the slow, thoughtful nature of the tile-matching game itself, and the difficulty lies entirely in your skill with mahjong. It feels like a bizarre, slightly uncomfortable fusion of a traditional board game and early digital titillation.