Cloud Master
Cloud Master is a horizontally scrolling shooter released as an arcade video game by Taito in 1988. Home versions were released for the Master System, PC Engine, and Famicom and, excluding the Master System version, were released only in Japan. The PC Engine version of the game is titled Gokuraku!
Also recorded as CHUKA TAISEN
Cloud Master
- Date
- 1988
- Publisher
- Hot B
- Genre
- action game
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Cloud Master is a horizontally scrolling shooter released as an arcade video game by Taito in 1988. Home versions were released for the Master System, PC Engine, and Famicom and, excluding the Master System version, were released only in Japan. The PC Engine version of the game is titled Gokuraku!
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The Famicom version is titled Chūka Taisen.
Key facts
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• Title — Cloud Master • Developer — Hot-B (Arcade) Opera House (Master System, MSX2) Disco (FC) SPS Co (X68000) • Publisher — Taito (Arcade, FC, PCE) Sega (Master System) Sharp (X68000) Hot-B (MSX2) • Artist — Nekoto Jr (Famicom) • Designer — Yukio Abe Fujiwara Eihiro • Programmer — Funky George (Famicom) • Composer — Planet2, Soul Duke (Famicom) • Genre — Scrolling shooter • Modes — Single-player, multiplayer • Platforms — Arcade, MSX2, PC Engine, Famicom, Master System, X68000
Gameplay
Gameplay
• Illustration — Arcade version screenshot The player controls Mike Chen floating on a cloud, maneuvering around the screen and shooting balls of energy at flying enemies. Powerups can be collected for stronger and faster firepower. Some parts of the stages have doors that give the player the opportunity to buy special bomb types with collectible credits. Each stage has its own mini-boss and main boss. The player restarts at certain checkpoints after losing a life.
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Cloud Master is associated with Japan.
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Reception
Reception
In Japan, Game Machine listed Cloud Master on their August 15, 1988 issue as being the sixteenth most-successful table arcade unit of the month.
Legacy
Legacy
In 2008, Starfish SD, a company founded by former Hot-B employees, bought the rights from Taito and developed a remake for the Nintendo Wii. It was released under the title The Monkey King: The Legend Begins (Shin Chūka Taisen: Michael to Meimei no Bōken in Japan). A Nintendo Switch port, titled Chuka Taisen, was released on September 6, 2018.
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- 1.Availability Update. Computer Entertainer. 8. 6. 13. September 1989.
- 2.Archived copy.
- 3.Kalata, Kurt. Hardcore Gaming 101: Cloud Master / Chuuka Taisen. Hardcore Gaming 101. January 10, 2014.
- 4.Amusement Press, Inc. Game Machine's Best Hit Games 25 - テーブル型TVゲーム機 (Table Videos). Game Machine. 338. 21. 15 August 1988.
- 5.中華大仙. Nintendo.
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