| Yakuman DS | |
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| Developer(s) | Nintendo SPD MediaKite |
| Publisher(s) | Nintendo |
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| Designer(s) | Tsubasa Fujikawa |
| Writer(s) | Kiyomi Oe |
| Composer(s) | Kenichiro Iwasaki |
| Series | Yakuman |
| Platform(s) | Nintendo DS |
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| Genre(s) | Puzzle, traditional |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
Yakuman DS [a] is a 2005 Mahjong video game developed by Nintendo and Mediakite and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS. It is a successor to Nintendo's 1989 Game Boy game Yakuman . [1] [2] It features modern Japanese Mahjong rules (with riichi and dora) and various characters from the Mario video game series.
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The original version was released in Japan in March 2005 by Nintendo. [3] In September of the following year they re-released the game with an online mode and the revised title Yakuman DS with Wi-Fi Support [b] . [4] Both versions were released only in Japan and with predominantly Japanese text.
In Japanese Mahjong, the term yakuman can refer both to the rare high-scoring limit hands and to the largest score limit that can be applied to a winning hand under Japanese Mahjong scoring rules.
