Sony’s bite sized download service has given developers found many uses for the Play Station Portable (PSP). They have developed many good bite sized games and the newest game developed for PSP line ups that gamers can look forward to is the Mahjong Solitaire. Agetec, a software publisher, has announced that they will release the new game “Mahjong Solitaire” for the PSPs. This game is expected to be released in North America this spring.

Mahjong is a betting game developed by the Chinese centuries ago. Mahjong players will match up the combination of tiles. Player should try to match up the combination before their opponent. The Mahjong PSP games will be played in different wallpapers, different types of background music and different tile layouts. The Mahjong Board on the PSP can be tilted according to the players’ preferences to have a better view on the open tiles.

The Chinese Mahjong tile matching game is the same with the PSP Mahjong Solitaire game except that the PSP Mahjong Solitaire game is available for single player only. Each player is given with 144 arranged tiles. A time limit is given to finish matching the open tiles. The objective of this game is to match the open pairs of same tiles and take away them from the mahjong board and show the tiles under them for play. Players of the mahjong take away same pairs of tiles from the arranged layering tiles. Players will try to take away as many tiles as possible and as fast as possible. A game winner will be declared when all pairs of tiles have been removed from the board and no more tiles are remaining. The game will end when time on the timer runs out.

PSP Mahjong Solitaire is enjoyable, appealing, and easy to play but it is hard to master. This game will only cost for about $3.00, affordable for bite sized downloadable game.