Mad Max (NES) Playthrough

A playthrough of Mindscape’s 1990 license-based action game for the NES, Mad Max. Despite being named Mad Max, this NES title has little to do with the 1979 film of the same name. It is actually based on the 1981 sequel, The Road Warrior, as is made evident by the intro cutscene’s paraphrase of the movie’s opening monologue. Another interesting point to note is that Mad Max is a reworked adaptation of Road Raider (known as Motor Massacre in Europe), a 1988 computer game that was released on the popular 8 and 16-bit platforms of the time. The characters, story, and overworld map layouts were changed, but a few instances of streamlining mechanics aside, the gameplay remains essentially the same. As the box explains, the goal of Mad Max is to “survive multiple levels of holocaust on the highways, mayhem in the mine-shafts, and anarchy in the arenas. Then face the final challenge -- if you dare.“ All of this survival, mayhem, and anarchy takes place across three stages