Arcade Video game published 41 years ago:

Mag Max (c) 1985 Nichibutsu.

Mag Max is a horizontally scrolling shoot-em-up in which a single player takes control of the 'Maxcraft' hover-ship and must battle their way through an packed enemy installation to find and destroy the invading alien 'Dragonia' fleet.

The action takes place both above and below ground and transporters appear throughout the game that allows the Maxcraft warp between the two as players search for the three-headed 'Dragonship'.

At various points the player will come across robot components - either a torso, a pair of legs or a plasma gun - and collecting these will eventually see the player's hover-ship become a towering robot, vastly increasing its firepower in the process.

If the Maxcraft takes an enemy hit when additional components are attached, a component is lost. If the ship is hit when only in basic form, however, a life is lost.

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU: Motorola 68000 (@ 8 Mhz) Sound CPU: Zilog Z80 (@ 2.5 Mhz) Sound Chips: (3x) General Instrument AY8910 (@ 1.25 Mhz)

Players: 1 Control: 8-way joystick Buttons: 1

- TRIVIA -

Mag Max was released in July 1985.

Some enemies from Nichibutsu's earlier game "Seicross" also appear as enemies in Mag Max.

Default highscore table (BEST 5): RANK SCORE NAME 1 68000 MACINTOSH 2 56000 MADMAX 3 44000 MACADAMIA- 4 32000 NUTS 5 20000 MANGETSU

- STAFF -

Director/Designer: Shigeki Fujiwara Hardware: Isao Shiki Sound: Ryoichi Yamada

- PORTS -

Player layout in our catalog: 2P alt.

If you are exploring by feel rather than by title, jump from the tags above into the matching genre rooms, or return to the Arcade hall for the full wall.

Open Play on this page to start Mag Max (set 1). Keyboard, USB/Bluetooth pads, and the on-screen touch gamepad all work inside the emulator bar. Save states and fullscreen live on that same bar so you can pause mid-session and resume later.

Mag Max (set 1) is filed in our catalog as a 1985 release.

Player layout on this cabinet: 2P alt.

Genre tags on Classic Arcade Games: Shooter.

Credit line lists Nichibutsu as developer.