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TV Mahjong game hardware
Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2014 12:48 am
by Barticle
I found this randomly on
Amazon Japan. There have been several plug & play mahjong games but this one is shaped like two mahjong tiles.
The big "dot" is a jog wheel to control your cursor and the smaller ones are buttons for kan, chii, pon, riichi, agari (win), cancel and OK.
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http://game.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/20 ... toy132.htm
It takes 4 x AA batteries or a mains adapter.
Re: TV Mahjong game hardware
Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2014 12:51 am
by Barticle
Here's the official site for the product:
http://epoch.jp/gt/taikan/tvmj/
Re: TV Mahjong game hardware
Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2014 12:56 am
by or2az
That's pretty cool. How much?
Re: TV Mahjong game hardware
Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2014 1:02 am
by Barticle
The recommended retail price after tax is 4,725 Yen which is about US$40.
Re: TV Mahjong game hardware
Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2014 1:46 am
by or2az
Found what looks like the same thing on amazon U.S.
wow! can shipping be that much? sounds inflated to me.
Looking at Bart's links again (along with google translate), it looks like the manufacturer (Epoch) suggests the 4725 yen ($40) and Amazon (both of them), are the price gougers (14,800 yen in japan or about $125), if I am doing this correctly.
(With the AC adapter, it looks like another 1445 yen or $12 more)
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Re: TV Mahjong game hardware
Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2014 7:09 pm
by Barticle
On both sides of the Pacific those are Japanese retailers selling through Amazon's sites.
Likely the device is no longer in production leaving desperate buyers to contend with opportunistic pricing.