Tiles of Fate (NES)

Tiles of Fate

Platform:	NES
Year:	1990
Developer:	C&E, Inc.
Buy:	Amazon

Tiles of Fate is a puzzle game developed by Taiwanese game company C&E, Inc. This is the first game of the company. The player must clear out Mahjong-like boards in order to progress through the game. The game also gives a history lesson about Chinese dynasties taking over one another. The game was also released in two China and Japan by Hacker International. The Japanese version is the only one that's different from the others for the storyline.

Screenshots

The title screen.

The Chinese version of the title screen.

The map screen.

Solving a puzzle.

Music

The game features pretty nice music. Levels 1, 2, and 3 of each world have their own theme but can get very annoying since they're short tunes. There's also some things they couldn't get right with the music. For example, the bass in the level 2 theme goes out of sync by an eighth note. The USA and Chinese version of the game credit B.H Ting for the music, who has been revealed as Ding Bohao. The Japanese version of the game lacks credits, probably because the developers didn't want Japanese players to know that a Chinese company developed it. Kossel Huang, another composer who worked for C&E said the founder of the company Guo Qiyong created the sound driver. According to Kossel, music was made by creating MIDI-like files which were then given Guo to convert into the game.

The Japanese version has a different soundtrack. The USA/Chinese soundtrack starts with a 1 and the Japanese soundtrack starts with a 2.

Recording

#	Title	Composer	Programmer	Length	Size	Listen
101	Intro	Ding Bohao	Guo Qiyong	0:30	1.12 MB
102	Menu	Ding Bohao	Guo Qiyong	1:31	3.47 MB
103	Map	Ding Bohao	Guo Qiyong	1:50	4.2 MB
104	Level 1 Theme	Ding Bohao	Guo Qiyong	1:09	2.66 MB
105	Level 2 Theme	Ding Bohao	Guo Qiyong	0:58	2.21 MB
106	Level 3 Theme	Ding Bohao	Guo Qiyong	0:59	2.24 MB
107	Cutscene Theme	Ding Bohao	Guo Qiyong	1:26	3.3 MB
108	Ending	Ding Bohao	Guo Qiyong	2:09	4.94 MB
109	Trapped	Ding Bohao	Guo Qiyong	0:03	102 KB
110	Unknown	Ding Bohao	Guo Qiyong	0:09	343 KB