Still the Best Mahjong Out There

Way more layouts than I will ever want. Beautiful tilesets (some of which are quite challenging). Ho-hum collection of backgrounds (if it’s ever updated it should allow you to choose a picture/graphic from your hard disk). No-pressure timer (just elapsed time, no penalties). Interesting scoring system (that will be largely irrelevant to the user who just likes to veg out over the game and try to clear whole layouts, though it does allow for some detailed statistics). Statistics of past play (fun, but largely irrelevant). Special cases the “season” and “flower” tiles like the “original” Mah-Jongg/Shanghai from back in ’81/86 (for some, but not all, tilesets) (Yeah!! not all newer versions do this, to their eternal detriment). And finally: A very interesting “Windstorm” mode that really does add “a whole new dimension to Mahjong.”
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Even if you’ve played Mahjong since the ‘80s and are pretty blasé about it (and think Brodie got it right the first time but you’ve played that original turtle layout a million times but you don’t like any of the others...), this is worth checking out. Try playing with a tileset like Paparazzi or Alien Stone with Windstorm mode on. Whoa. Not so easy to run through the tiles this time.
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No, it won’t full-screen, but it’s plenty big enough. And realistically full-screening would require the tileset files to either be much larger or look terrible, and MobileAge has obviously tried to make this game as light-weight as possible since they appear to use the same graphics for both the computer and mobile versions (and, even on the computer version, require you to laboriously download each tileset individually).
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And no, this is not the traditional Chinese/southeast-asian game of Mahjong. This is a solitare game using Mahjong tiles that is closely based on one first programmed by Brodie Lockard in 1981 and ported to the Macintosh in 1986.

dmanasco about Shanghai Mahjong