Metal Max (1991)

- Developer
- Crea-Tech, Enterbrain, Data East
- Publisher
- Enterbrain, Data East
- Platforms
- Nintendo 3DS, Wii, Family Computer
- Genres
- Role-playing (RPG), Turn-based strategy (TBS)
How it feels
A cult Famicom RPG where monster hunters drive customizable tanks through a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
post-apocalypticrpgretrovehicle combatgrittyturn-basedjapanese
About
Metal Max is a 1991 vehicle combat role-playing video game developed by Crea-Tech and published by Data East for the Nintendo Famicom exclusively in Japan on May 24, 1991 and later re-released on the Wii Virtual Console on April 27, 2010. It is the first of the Metal Max series. Metal Max is set in a futuristic post-apocalyptic world, where the surviving humans cluster in underground villages and ruins while "monster hunters" fight the monsters and outlaws outside.
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