Metal Max

Metal Max

Available on:

Wii
3DS
famicom

Genres

Role-playing (RPG), Turn-based strategy (TBS)

Developers

Crea-Tech, Data East, Enterbrain

Release Date

June 23, 1991 (35 years ago)

Publishers

Data East, Enterbrain

Content Rating

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Summary

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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