Shanghai: True Valor

Shanghai: True Valor, known in Japan as Shanghai: Matekibuyu, is a tile-matching puzzle game developed and published by Sunsoft, with PAL distribution handled by Activision and Infogrames. The release builds on the long-running Shanghai mahjong-puzzle lineage with a 3D pyramid-stack presentation, where players must match free tiles to gradually deconstruct the pile.

The PAL landscape consists of a single catalogued variant covering the UK, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain on a shared pressing. The earliest PAL release is dated 1 May 1999. Despite the broad territorial reach, language coverage is English only, with no per-country localisation undertaken on this release.

The catalogued variant ships in a Full Jewel PAL case as a single-disc release, with a Hologram B marking on the case indicating a later production window. The single shared pressing makes the title straightforward to identify at a database level, with serial and barcode both unambiguous. A modest pickup of mainly genre-specific interest for puzzle collectors building out the late nineties Sunsoft and Activision PAL catalogue.