Dragon World 2001 belongs to a long series of fantasy-themed mahjong games produced for the Chinese and Southeast Asian arcade market in the early 2000s, where the tile matchup is dressed with characters, creatures, and eye-catching visual effects. This type of title had enormous circulation in that region, though almost none in the West. It's representative of a parallel arcade industry, that of 2000s Asia, which sustained its own market of tabletop games layered with fantasy long after the West had declared traditional arcades dead.
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