Water Margin: The Tales of Clouds and Winds (1996) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Water Margin: The Tales of Clouds and Winds

A light shines from the depths of the earth; heavenly spirits and earthly fiends arise. The blood of the people runs cold, and heroes tremble in fear. Vengeful forces seek to destroy the heroic outlaws of…

31 December 1996

What Water Margin: The Tales of Clouds and Winds is

Water Margin: The Tales of Clouds and Winds is a hack and slash/beat 'em up game developed by Never Ending Soft Team and released in 1996. It was published by JoshProd. It is available on Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, Arcade and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

A light shines from the depths of the earth; heavenly spirits and earthly fiends arise. The blood of the people runs cold, and heroes tremble in fear. Vengeful forces seek to destroy the heroic outlaws of Mount Liang. A tale of immortal deeds now begins, let all listen and take heed. Water Margin: A Tale of Clouds and Wind is a Sega Genesis Beat'em up which was first exclusively available only in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong markets mostly, during the late 90's, being recently re-released for Genesis and Windows by Piko Interactive.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and historical. It supports multiplayer and includes co-op. Local play supports 2 players. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.

What it launched against

Water Margin: The Tales of Clouds and Winds launched on 31 December 1996, within three weeks of Mario Kart 64, Wild Arms, Mega Man 8 and Money Puzzle Exchanger.

Released around the same time: Mario Kart 64, Wild Arms, Mega Man 8, Money Puzzle Exchanger.

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