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Metal Max (1991)

Metal Max cover
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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