However, it was not until Activision released Shanghai in 1986 for the Macintosh and Apple IIgs that the game gathered momentum. Lockard claims that it was based on a centuries-old Chinese game called 'the Turtle'. The computer game was originally created by Brodie Lockard in 1981 and named Mah-Jongg after the game that uses the same tiles for play. Mahjong solitaire is a solitaire matching game that uses a set of Mahjong tiles rather than cards.
