Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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"Tottemo E Mahjong" is a simple, low budget Japanese Mahjong game developed by Inspire and Game Ware and published by Arc System Works that was originally released for Sony's PlayStation Vita in 2012. It then got an Arcade port (this one) in 2013 with one additional character and another port to the PlayStation 4 in 2014 with another added character, some interface changes and a few extra bells and whistles. Considering the PS4 version is only ~1600 Yen (about $10 USD currently) and is the definitive experience, I'd start there if you reaaaaally want to play this, but I've got this version for posterity and to get the cobwebs out of Arcade games on this channel. While the game is "technically" better than the other Mahjong game I've captured, "3D Cosplay Mahjong", it doesn't do anything special at all compared to other Mahjong games out there and is an inferior version of Arc System Work's "Two Jong Cell!!" and just as difficult, so go with that instead unless you want a really vanilla game.

TEM uses Taito's "NESiCAxLive" digital distribution service and plays like almost every other (Riichi / Reach) Mahjong game on the planet, so please refer to this link to learn the particulars of the game:

mahjong-ny.com/features/reach-mahjong-rules

The player will compete against five different girls while beating them in "Missions" (which are also in "Two Jong Cell!!"...in other words, you MUST complete certain objectives such as winning with a certain hand, within a certain amount of turns, etc. -- you CAN'T always win by having the highest points). By playing, your actions also get converted into a certain amount of "E-Points" that can be used to purchase items that can give you an edge... at least in a typical Mahjong game like, say, "Tensen-NyanNyan: Gekijouban" (Tensen-Nyannyan: Gekigyouban). In this game though, you're not forewarned that it's 4-Players, the A.I. will gang up on you and the A.I. is ruthless, and this is in spite of the "Easy Call" system that's implemented to help with hands and calls. This is literally one of those games that goes out of its way to give you tiles you don't really need (you can pull from your opponents and make pairs, but this generally yields smaller payouts) for half the round while your opponents are sitting on a Tenpai after the 3rd of 4th tile, and the Mission structure just makes dealing with them even more obnoxious.

The last pain in the neck element of this game for me, however, is the intrusive timer; while most Arcade Mahjong games will have a timer so you don't spend too much time going through your hand, this game does things a little differently; the player is given 240 seconds during the match to go through their hand, and the timer is frozen while other characters are making their moves. This, on paper, sounds reasonable, but with the A.I. and mission structure imposed on the player, the game made sure that it was not put there to be charitable but to add another layer of stress. Once this timer reaches zero, you will have no more than five seconds to comb through your hand (technically, you have more as you can move your cursor while the AI is going, but your ultimate move is still contingent on what you draw and requires you to constantly be thinking no less than three steps ahead). This element of the game has, mercifully, been removed from the Arcade Mode of "Tottemo E Mahjong Plus" and is magnitudes better as a result.

The graphics are pretty simple (Mashiro, Saki, Hatsuki, Shizu and Hikari are cute enough, and you get them basically cosplaying in different outfits as you beat them), the game's not fully voiced, the music is... fine, and the U.I. is pretty barebones but... well, the game was basically iterated twice, so it has a following of some kind. That said, there is a considerable surplus of better Mahjong games (a few were already casually thrown around in this synopsis). This is a brief video showing the game in action. Enjoy.

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