Nankin

I found Nankin on Vegard Krog Petersen's Solitair MahJongg site under Shisen-Sho, but it has hardly any aspects of this game except for the use of MahJongg tiles. In Nankin, you can remove any two matching tiles that are either in the same row or the same column. The trick is that the rest of the column then slides to the left. Thus the horizontal alignment always stays the same, while the vertical changes all the time, and you must try to bring matching tiles into the same row. There is some parallel to the strategy you have to employ in SameGame, where removing one group influences the rest of the playing field. Since it was Ikuo Hirohata who created the Same Game for Windows, this is not very astonishing.

Don't let this similarity mislead you. Nankin may have been inspired by Same Game, but it is far from being a clone or a variant. It's an independent, original game in its own right.

Apart from Nankin and the Same Game port, Ikuo Hirohata wrote two more games, whose archive names were marble and martian. Since his homepage is gone, they are probably lost forever.